I literally just bought a new Chromebook 11 days ago
https://blog.google/products/chromebooks/chromebook-plus
More than 10 years ago, we created Chromebooks to bring you easy-to-use computers that offer reliable performance and unmatched security. Today, we're introducing a new category of Chromebooks that takes the promise even further: Chromebook Plus.
With double the performance1, Chromebook Plus offers built-in Google apps and powerful AI capabilities. It also offers Google Photos Magic Eraser and Adobe Photoshop2 on the web to help consumers boost their productivity, inspire their creativity and make everyday tasks intuitive. It's a laptop experience that optimizes hardware performance with software apps and cowtools, all at a starting price of $399.
Designed to get more done
Laptop shopping is harder than it should be. You can easily get lost in a sea of numbers and technical specs, and it's hard to know what products will actually give you what you need, at the price you want.
We've spent a lot of time listening to laptop users and have worked closely with our partners at Acer, ASUS, HP and Lenovo to build a guaranteed standard of performance that people can depend on to get what they need done. Today, we are announcing eight new Chromebook Plus laptops.
All Chromebook Plus laptops offer faster processors1 and double the memory and storage1, giving you the power to get more done, easily. All Chromebook Plus laptops also come with a Full HD IPS display --- which means you get a full 1080p HD experience when watching streaming content, and crisp, clear viewing for reading, creating content or editing photos and videos. Finally, there's a 1080p+ webcam with temporal noise reduction for smoother, more lifelike video calls.
All Chromebook Plus laptops come with the the following guaranteed hardware specs:
CPU: Intel Core i3 12th Gen or above, or AMD Ryzen 3 7000 series or above
RAM: 8GB+
Storage: 128GB+
Webcamera: 1080p+ with Temporal Noise Reduction
Display: Full HD IPS or better display
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i just access my "NAS" sweaty![:marseyindignant: :marseyindignant:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyindignant.webp)
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We have the same amount of storage! But mine is mostly 5+ years old
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lol mine are all usb drives bought on sale at amazon, had 1 fail in the past year already
the pi was useful for me to level up my linux knowledge and learn stuff like docker so i guess it's pretty okay
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CHROMEbook? I don't think so!!!
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I store all media on an external HDD cause my laptop has a 256GB SSD. Documents don't take up much storage, it works fine.
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"AI capabilities"
I don't see any high end graphic cards in that spec so do they mean access to some cloud service that will probably be very cucked
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lol prolly, although I was pleasantly surprised i could run steam games like Inscryption on my non-plus (
) Chromebook
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Oh god I'm gonna Chrooooooooooooomm!!!
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Hopes the GPU is a blind box, for the gamba
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the GPU's probably the very trans-friendly Intel Iris Xe![:marseyxd: :marseyxd:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyxd.webp)
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Chromebook plus is the first computer optimized for Rust
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Why would I buy this over a real computer?
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Because it's challenging
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chromebooks are more real computers than any windows or apple device
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So, Chiobu, hacker extraordinaire, is gonna buy a corporate microphone for his pod?
They're gonna steal your biometric data from your IoT buttplug, dude.
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There was this guy who hacked into some e chastity cage company and locked all the cages
They made them remote control only the tards.
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lol ooof, i had only read about one where this guy opened the controls to his chastity cage (or something similar) to the public
but i guess something like what you said is inevitable
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That was fake
Idiot
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7apnn/your-peepee-is-mine-now-hacker-locks-internet-connected-chastity-cage-demands-ransom
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0 x 2 == 0
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Will you be able to multitask now?
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I was always able to multitask between the browser and notepad![:marseyindignant: :marseyindignant:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyindignant.webp)
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Keeping notes on users?
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nah i was being self-depreciating
mine has a decent intel processor and ram so multi-tasking's fine compared to my old chromebook that uses an ARM chip
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Am I gonna
buy a Chromebook for the first
time in my life?
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lol idk it's an acquired taste but i like it a lot
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Am I missing something? Only thing this seems to do is create a more modern hardware standard for all the Chromebook manufacturers. These "plus" laptops are worse than my current Chromebook minus the 1080p front cam
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idk lol i'm just whining for fun, the new chromebook i bought definitely fits within the chromebook plus criteria
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I forget, did you get the dragonfly? I nabbed a "used" hp c1030 for $150, pretty pleased with it
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i didn't, i got a cheap Acer 514 which had a dead screen after 2 days
managed to RMA it and it's working well now lol
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I'm definitely noticing a big difference with an i7 and 16gb ram installed. I bought mine from this website:
https://www.wisetekmarket.com/collections/chromebooks
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darn, an i7 + 16 gb ram for $150 is really a steal! unfortunately chromebooks aren't really a thing where i'm at lol so there isn't a 2nd hand market at all![:marseycry: :marseycry:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseycry.webp)
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Stopped using chrome when i couldnt play a pirated End of Evangelion .mkv on one
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was it a h265 video? usually you can use ffmpeg to convert it to mp4 if it's just a video in a mkv container
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No idea, i gave up and will.never go back to jewgle unless it's to run that shiddy GaliumOS or w/e that kills the battery manager
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Chiobu please gimme a QRD on Chromebooks
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you have to log in to your google account although there are distros that can avoid that
OS is linux based so the debian container that you can run on the chromebook is pretty fast
which in turn allows you to install and run stuff like onlyoffice if you need to work with ms office documents or something, vs code if you need to coooode or most linux apps in the debian repo
supports steam now without needing to change to utilising the beta OS channel but obviously only the games with low system requirements will run
i dono what else to say but it doesn't feel as bloated as windows i guess, but admittedly i do still have to remotely access a windows machine if i need to use photoshop or something but a chromebook just feels light and fast for me
also it's cheap
but i think it would take some time for you to transition to chromeos from windows
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Thanks chiobu
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Hiiiiiii![:marseybye: :marseybye:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseybye.webp)
Snapshots:
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https://blog.google/products/chromebooks/chromebook-plus:
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I don't think I have more than 11 days with my new chromebook either. Then again it's a gaming chromebook and I just realized I only surf, read and watch shows on it (I have yet to play minecraft despite installing it since it came for free).
Wait. Never mind I think mine actually qualifies as a "plus". Looks like they're just rebranding their more powerful devices?
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hmm probably, I just took a look at the models that are "Chromebook Plus" and I saw the new one I just got and also last year's model that I also have lol
If yours is a gaming chromebook then it's probably pretty powerful, I think they just made it so that you don't need to switch to a beta version of ChromeOS to install Steam!
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I just want them to let me install apks without jumping through hooks
. Though at least now I can sideload them by enabling linux. Still a bunch of work though.
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lol i disabled the play store because the new virtual machine nonsense they introduced in 2022 to handle android apps was such a resource hog! i really like using linux on a chromebook as compared to WSL on a windows machine, it just feels so much faster for some reason even though both are linux containers
i had to use windows for a period of time recently and it really felt so sluggish as compared to a chromebook even though most people wouldn't perceive the ChromeOS as a
serious OS ![:!marseyairquotes: :!marseyairquotes:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyairquotes.webp)
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every fricking company is a
company lol
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Hezbollah
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are those the anti-jew people
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They fire rockets into israel then cry when israel starts blasting![:marseynoyou: :marseynoyou:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseynoyou.webp)
!marseyartists can we get a jew pointing at a muslim![:marseyinshallah: :marseyinshallah:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyinshallah.webp)
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why dont you learn to make marseys
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I'm at work sweaty![:platyrich: :platyrich:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/platyrich.webp)
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so
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that's a MICROAGGRESSION you fricker![:tayaaa: :tayaaa:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/tayaaa.webp)
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Still rocking the pixelbook
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