Googlebook, my new computer!

[alarmguy]

It will be OK for a low budget, low demand usage market it is designed for. It's not going to be good for real number crunching. It will be ok for most surfing, word processing, spreadsheets, and so-so for lightweight video.

Agree and I think even more than this. Might be fine for video and number crunching too. Possibly make some Android users happy integrating with their android phone. But that is where it ends.

When I speak of "eco system" it means in our home, seamless integration among all devices, two desktops, two Phones, two smart watches, tablet and laptop which Apple does perfect for us. We use these devices extensively for healthy activities and staying active to health monitoring, file sharing. With that said I know many people do not use devices as we do. People we know, friends and family are amazed at the health data I can show them. I think some even in this forum.

A recent doctor appt that I had, a specialist, asked if I had the pages of blood workup done by another specialist because for some reason the lab that did it wasn't turning up my data in their office and he didnt feel it necessary to re-run the tests which was 6 or 7 vials of blood. Into my iPhone I went, standing with his staff outside the exam room. I was able to pull up the file on my Apple Cloud that was saved on my home desktop, email it to them in the office, before I left they confirmed that they got it. I understand all computers can do things like this however there is no system, if you use all the devices that we do, that can come close to matching it.

 

[CleanSump]

Agree and I think even more than this. Might be fine for video and number crunching too. Possibly make some Android users happy integrating with their android phone. But that is where it ends.

When I speak of "eco system" it means in our home, seamless integration among all devices, two desktops, two Phones, two smart watches, tablet and laptop which Apple does perfect for us. We use these devices extensively for healthy activities and staying active to health monitoring, file sharing. With that said I know many people do not use devices as we do. People we know, friends and family are amazed at the health data I can show them. I think some even in this forum.

A recent doctor appt that I had, a specialist, asked if I had the pages of blood workup done by another specialist because for some reason the lab that did it wasn't turning up my data in their office and he didnt feel it necessary to re-run the tests which was 6 or 7 vials of blood. Into my iPhone I went, standing with his staff outside the exam room. I was able to pull up the file on my Apple Cloud that was saved on my home desktop, email it to them in the office, before I left they confirmed that they got it. I understand all computers can do things like this however there is no system, if you use all the devices that we do, that can come close to matching it.

When I say number crunching I mean real engineering and simulation software I ran at work. You just aren't going to get there on any lightweight book/pad/laptop for the consumer market.
Some here may argue that, but they haven't tried. No, your super twitch gaming laptop isn't going to cut it.

 

[PandaBear]

My comment was about the aesthetics of the device.

Then it may be anywhere from Dollar Store to Best Buy I guess.

My kids' school chromebook is actually build pretty well consider they don't sell for too high of a price. Lenovo (and Dell sometimes) seems to be okish but the HPs are just Dollar Store grade stuff these days.

I think in a few years with all business apps going to the cloud, company laptops would likely end up being just chromebooks, and all real works will end up on the cloud.

When I say number crunching I mean real engineering and simulation software I ran at work. You just aren't going to get there on any lightweight book/pad/laptop for the consumer market.
Some here may argue that, but they haven't tried. No, your super twitch gaming laptop isn't going to cut it.

Very soon those would be on the cloud too other than the front end GUI on the laptop. Companies are now moving those to the cloud because they are cheaper to run and AI can be trained to model much easier if they are on the cloud. I would not be surprised if one day they will go out there and start grabbing our vendor's design and ask their AI model along the way too.

Xilinx already started offering FPGA rental on AWS. No matter how powerful your local computers and servers are, they won't be bigger than what you can rent on the cloud for burst load.

 

[Pew]

When I say number crunching I mean real engineering and simulation software I ran at work. You just aren't going to get there on any lightweight book/pad/laptop for the consumer market.
Some here may argue that, but they haven't tried. No, your super twitch gaming laptop isn't going to cut it.

At that point, workstation + rdp.

 

[Plumb Bob]

When I say number crunching I mean real engineering and simulation software I ran at work. You just aren't going to get there on any lightweight book/pad/laptop for the consumer market.
Some here may argue that, but they haven't tried. No, your super twitch gaming laptop isn't going to cut it.

Dual EPYC, 2 TB of Ram and 4 RTX 6000 Pro...

Back to Googlebook

 

[dishdude]

If your life is simple, and all you need is a notebook get anything you want that makes you happy. So Google learned how to integrate another device after a decade.

Others have many more demands of an ecosystem so this wouldn’t work

Ridiculous. Everything I have syncs with my Google account and I can use any device I want to access it - they all integrate. I'm not locked in to one brand of overpriced and unintuitive devices.

 

[Brons2]

Very much looking forward to the upcoming Googlebook notebook. Gemini AI for the win!

This just looks like features on a laptop that I already have on my Pixel phone, based on the Chromebook OS. What is the software support? What is the battery life? How good is the screen?

I've had several Chromebooks and they're fine for low end boxes where the main point is consuming web content, but they don't do a lot. I kind of prefer Linux on a Windows laptop from what I've seen here. But, we'll see.

 

[97prizm]

You can get it back.



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