Anyone heard of this Chrome Laptop?

[Kappy]

I just saw a commercial for a chrome laptop. Looks like they may have largely done away with a hard drive in order to rely more upon their cloud?

Anyone seen this thing in real life?

[Can'thavenuthingood]

I saw the commercial last night and looked it up.
No HDD, its the SDD instead with 100GB of free online storage.
I just started looking for a mobile type gizmo to use out and about with a hotspot. Price is right at $249.

Don't know much about the Cloud yet.
Though it looks like Google Docs may be less cumbersome for me to use over Office products. I'm very small biz just sell T-shirts, doc needs are minimal so far.

Article here.

Vick

Hardware specs

• Model Number: XE303C12
• Display Size: 11.6-inches
• Display: 1366x768 resolution; 200nit brightness
• Weight: 2.43 lbs (1.1.kg)
• Less than 0.8 inches thick (17.5 mm)
• Battery Life: over 6.5 hours
• Processor: Samsung Exynos 5250
• Memory: 2GB
• Storage: 16GB SSD (Google is including 100GB free online storage)
• Webcam
• Ports: 1 USB 3.0, 1 USB 2.0, combo headphone/mic jack, secure digital memory slot
• HDMI Port
• Bluetooth 3.0™ Compatible
• Speaker: 1.5W speaker X 2
• Keyboard: Full-size Chrome keyboard
• Wireless: 802.11 abg/n 2x2
• MSRP: $249 USD / 229 GBP

[ldsnet]

I found it to be like a tablet with a keyboard. REQUIRED Internet access to function, and very limited on application options.

For me, I purchased an inexpensive laptop instead.

[Kappy]

I saw the commercial last night and looked it up.
No HDD, its the SDD instead with 100GB of free online storage.
I just started looking for a mobile type gizmo to use out and about with a hotspot. Price is right at $249.

Don't know much about the Cloud yet.
Though it looks like Google Docs may be less cumbersome for me to use over Office products. I'm very small biz just sell T-shirts, doc needs are minimal so far.

Article here.

Vick

Hardware specs

• Model Number: XE303C12
• Display Size: 11.6-inches
• Display: 1366x768 resolution; 200nit brightness
• Weight: 2.43 lbs (1.1.kg)
• Less than 0.8 inches thick (17.5 mm)
• Battery Life: over 6.5 hours
• Processor: Samsung Exynos 5250
• Memory: 2GB
• Storage: 16GB SSD (Google is including 100GB free online

The cloud is ok, as long as you can actually connect decently to it. I run into problems with it periodically, especially with Docs, when my connection speeds dip a little.

Docs is cool, but it has some problems. I wouldn't switch to it completely over Office unless I absolutely had to.

I have a netbook for this particular application, but this machine just looked cool... But if you HAVE to be online all the time to do anything, I'll give it a miss. 100gb?

But thanks for the info.


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[Kappy]

I found it to be like a tablet with a keyboard. REQUIRED Internet access to function, and very limited on application options.

For me, I purchased an inexpensive laptop instead.

Yeah, I did the same. HP netbook. I have a laptop for the important stuff, like imaging software. This machine seems pretty worthless for my uses.


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[zfields]

I found it to be like a tablet with a keyboard. REQUIRED Internet access to function, and very limited on application options.

For me, I purchased an inexpensive laptop instead.

Odd. Most the core functions of chrome os are available offline. I run it dual booted with win 7 on my netbook and it works decently, but office still blows away docs IMO

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