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What’s the point in spending money on a high end chrome book when you can get a similar laptop for a similar price?


You cannot get a 16” 1600p @ 120hz laptop for anything less than double the cost of that $700 model.

The specs are very specific to gaming, and anything similar (1440p@120hz) will include the cost of the hardware required for local gaming.


I wont buy one, but the fireware on chromebook is just flat out better and safer. If it was just a standard linux distro by default it would be great.


OS is much better than Windows and, frankly, macOS at this point. Sort of same analogue as what moving from late XP to Mac OS 10.3 felt like in 2006.

Can you get 120 hz this cheap in Windows laptop?


> OS is much better than Windows and, frankly, macOS at this point.

... for a discrete set of tasks, maybe. As a general purpose OS, not a prayer. I know Chrome is trying to become its own OS, and seems to be making pretty good headway, but don't cheat yourself thinking "and I'll just ..." unless that task runs in Chrome. I'm aware of the Linux containers on approved devices but just like WSL2 has some grave impedance mismatch with its Windows parent, so too does Linux with its ChromeOS parent


It's been fine for me and available on every device I've seen the last 3 years, and sometimes wonder what the actual tangible difference to a user is between it and OS X's Unix underpinnings, other than OS X needing a incessant parade of permission dialogs due to it. But I bet it's not great if you tried doing ex. like media production?


Hahaha what? Really? ChromeOS is a clusterfuck and to get even remotely useful beyond awful web app functionality requires running proper Linux desktop apps or Android apps.

Which negates the entire point of the OS and you might as well just run a regular desktop Linux where you don’t have to jump through hoops to do things and don’t have Google crammed up your ass.




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