Googlebook, my new computer!
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Hmm, how is that different than the Chromebook already? I don't see how is this different or justify yet another variety of it. I have a feeling this is going to be yet another half baked product heading straight to the Google Graveyard.
That low end spec (based on the thickness of this laptop alone) is not going to do any Edge AI, maybe a dumb one equivalent to those Chinese knockoff or Llama 3, but they are making the same mistake Intel made with their Atom line of products. The only way they can do a respectful AI is via Google's data center.
It is just a slightly modified Chromebook with a bit more local TPU or NCU or whatever multiply and add engine they throw on it with insufficient ram. Most of the "AI" is done back in Google's data center instead.
Besides security updates on an unsupported phone...
That would be 156 square miles
I use it as a phone. No apps on it that require personal information.
It's Google so the answer is "everything".
The Googlebook comes out later this year. It was announced yesterday.
I used a MacBook Neo to start the thread.
Personally I believe in being a generalist; learn a little about all of 'em.
My guess is it will be a "dollar store" version of the Neo.
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Well Utah just approved a new data center twice the size of manhattan so we're not that far off
This AI stuff needs to be shutdown hard and fast. I'm not against AI, I use it all day/every day but the speed and apparent recklessness with which everyone is jumping on board is terrible. Slow everything down, maybe in 10 to 20 years we have had some breakthrough in computation that requires less power to do the same thing etc.
The date center is "approved" but there are still many, many obstacles that need to be overcome to build it. I predict a lawsuit as soon as the environmental impact statement is released. The grounds will be bad/false information.Well Utah just approved a new data center twice the size of manhattan so we're not that far off
This AI stuff needs to be shutdown hard and fast. I'm not against AI, I use it all day/every day but the speed and apparent recklessness with which everyone is jumping on board is terrible. Slow everything down, maybe in 10 to 20 years we have had some breakthrough in computation that requires less power to do the same thing etc.
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Why does this start to feel like dot.com - just data.com ?
It’s got great potential - but moving crazy fast while fundamentals get let behind …
It’s got great potential - but moving crazy fast while fundamentals get let behind …
Curious, why do you think this? My understanding is the specs will be stringent. We'll see.
If you look at what makes a "book" vs another "book". You will know they are all just a bunch of chips, mouse, keyboards, screen.
Chromebook works mainly by not storing and processing local data, same for those NetBook back in the late 2000s when they first came out (running Windows destroyed it, they may be successful if they release that today after Microsoft Azure became the #2 cloud company in the world), same for MacBook Neo after Apple finally decided to jump in. The whole thing that makes them work well is the backend on the cloud instead of the book itself.
Looking at the thickness of this Googlebook you can tell it has not much high power chips inside. It won't be able to cool correctly running AI locally, and therefore it is just a tweaked version of Chromebook maybe with a few upgrade to work slightly better with AI.
I would expect "quite a bit"; given that this is a major, major part of their business model, which they, and others like them, do not keep a secret.
Yeah man! Lenovo ThinkPad T480, i5-8250, 16GB RAM, running Debian 13. Stable, private, and no AI, Google, Apple, or Microsoft!
My comment was about the aesthetics of the device.
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
Others have many more demands of an ecosystem so this wouldn’t work
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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.
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