I wonder when this will go to the Google Graveyard
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The biggest selling point for Chromebooks was that they are A) Cheap and B) Simple/Fast. Education and Enterprise used them because they were easy to manage.
The cheapest Googlebook is $899 and it's biggest selling features are a bunch of AI junk nobody asked for. They also cannot be managed yet in the Google Admin Console.
I expect this to flop something terrible.
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My only question is questions are: if they're selling the hardware at a discount
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what other OSs I'll be able to run on it because fuck Google.
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A laptop, now with more centralized control! Want to write an app for your laptop? Everything has to be signed and you need to identify yourself and pay a fee.
Designed for Gemini intelligence
They think that's a selling point?
Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI
AI Not Exactly a Selling Point for Consumers
Consumers are sick and tired of hearing about AI all the time
etc. etc. People know AI as an indicator for low-quality output with high resource consumtion and trust issues.
How's this different from the Chromebook, that Google cut updates to no less.
Will these new googlebooks come with the same update cycles?
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Just like the Pixel Book and Chromebook pixel before it this is going to flop and end up in the graveyard. High-end Chromebooks just aren't a thing anybody really wants. If you want to game on a device or do game streaming there are better options that aren't as locked down. Who is this for?
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Petition to replace "spank bank" with "google book."
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