SAN FRANCISCO — Google is adding a new and more expensive touch to its line of Chrome laptops in an attempt to outshine personal computers running on software made by rivals Microsoft and Apple.
The Chromebook Pixel unveiled Thursday includes a nearly 13-inch display screen that responds to the touch or swipe of a finger. That duplicates a key feature in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 8, a dramatic makeover of the world’s leading operating system for PCs.
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I read the CNET review of this odd product yesterday. Mr. Pichai needs to check Google's current pricing for 1 TB of storage on the net - $600 / yr. 3 Years of that storage which is included with their Chromebook is worth $1,800 - more than the cost of the product. It's an odd product because you have to reach over the keyboard to use the "touchscreen". This is called the 'Gorilla Arm" effect. Moving your hands back and forth from the keyboard to the screen is about as convenient as turning sheet music while playing the piano. And yes, it's slightly higher resolution than the similarly-overpriced Macbook Air, but hey, none of the likely users can tell the difference, even with their Google glasses on.
Plus with only 32 or 64 Gb of "disk" storage and using apps stored in the Cloud, Google has successfully reinvented the 'dumb terminal' from the 1970's.
I own and love the Samsung Chromebook, but I don't get this new one at all.
For me, the appeal was that it was a simple and cheap way to access the internet and use my Google Drive to create documents and such. The point in running a stripped down OS appealed to me as someone who had owned Windows computers that slowed to a crawl over the years.
In my opinion, I was the target audience for the Chromebook and they nailed it. I do not know who the target audience is for this new overpriced thing, as anyone spending that much probably wants a more complete product. Seems like a dumb attempt to have a high end product just to have one.