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I Finally Tried out a Chromebook and...

nickdalzell said:
Probably the bottom of the barrel Windows 8 machine, which goes for around $299 here
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wyndslash said:
I'm not sure I want a windows 8 machine. It looks so cluttered to me.
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oh good god no. win7 is where im gonna stop. i dont need some randomly updating giant panels, or touchscreen or anything else weird on my computer. im with you on the horrible uglyness of the "new" era of computing.

a computer is for typing with, a phone/tablet is for touching.

plus with how long it takes to get java and eclipse and apk multitool set-up perfectly, im not going back through that learning curve when i can do everything i need to do with this admittedly couple year old laptop.

i did run ubuntu with a virtual machine for a little bit, but never get enough time to play around with it to get it perfect, but maybe one day i can be an official cool guy like moody ;). plus i only really got it to do AOSP builds, but really kind of got out of rom stuff and started doing app stuff.

to be honest i dont use much microsoftness and never really have, all im ever doing these days in realplayer, firefox, and eclipse.
 
I see your point, Dngrsone, but wouldn't it seem that these days--what with M$'s failure in the smartphone arena, and the increasing use of computing devices with Android and/or Apple OSes--that they'd be a little humbled? Perhaps play a little nicer, so as to not lose sales in other areas? But, no! Instead, they're getting worse and worse. (Which I actually didn't think was possible.)

How this can even be legal is beyond me. :confused:
 
Just an FYI, the only publicity I've seen for the chromebooks are on Youtube, with the occasional advert on TV. For
 
out of ideas said:
i did run ubuntu with a virtual machine for a little bit, but never get enough time to play around with it to get it perfect, but maybe one day i can be an official cool guy like moody ;).
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Although it's often said that I have bigger balls than most guys...
I'm actually a gal! :D :laugh:
 
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