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Samsung Series 5 Chromebook

October 30, 2011

As the first post about my Chromebook challenge experience, I thought I’d take a look at what Chromebooks are actually like to use, from the perspective of a Mac user. The model that I’m using is the Samsung Series 5, and I’ve actually had it for a few months. When we were burgled earlier in [...]

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Heaven help me, I’m taking the Chromebook challenge

October 30, 2011

A while ago, I wrote a column for Tap on the differences between Apple and Google’s vision of “the cloud”, and (perhaps unsurprisingly) came down hard on the side of Apple’s. iCloud, as I saw it, was very much the more user-centred version. The iPad and Chromebook represent two different views of the future of [...]

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“Why have a Chromebook if Android runs Chrome?”

August 31, 2011

Jason Perlow asks a pertinent question: It’s important to note that if we had the Chrome browser on an Android tablet, why would we want a Chromebook? For the price of a Chromebook you could pick up an Android tablet with a keyboard that connects via dock or bluetooth. You would have the same functionality, [...]

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HTC Google Tablet: Dead

January 19, 2010

Remember that rumoured tablet PC that HTC was developing for Google, running Chrome OS? According to an HTC executive, it’s dead. Channelnews Australia quotes Anthony Petts, ANZ Sales and Marketing Director for HTC as saying that all development on the unnamed tablet has ceased, and that the company will be concentrating on mobile phones for [...]

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There’s these great cut-down computers, right…

November 21, 2009

Daring Fireball: Maybe Instead of Two Cars, You Just Need a Car and a Bicycle: “The idea of a computer that does a lot less — leaving out even things you consider essential, because you can still do those things on your other, primary computer — is liberating. That’s the opportunity, and that’s the idea [...]

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A short post on the conceit at the heart of Google ChromeOS

November 20, 2009

One of the prime reasons for the success of Twitter is that it has never been reliant on a single interface. Because it has cleverly exposed everything via rich APIs, it has effectively allowed a hundred interfaces to blossom. Don’t like the way that the web interface now handles retweets? Wait a few weeks and [...]

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