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Technically that should be Snapdragon >> Tegra, or Qualcomm >> Nvidia. :D

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Sounds awesome. Looking forward to it.

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It definitely does something. It’s a huge help for policing and moderating the forums. So thanks.

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I know. As well as being an intern at The Verge, I make packaged apps in my spare time.

They basically give Chrome OS a proper apps platform, which for me is pretty awesome. For OS X, Windows and Linux (technically Chrome OS is just a heavily customised Linux distro – it’s actually closer to Linux than Android, in a technical view), they provide a perfect cross-platform app platform, which is pretty awesome in my view.

1 day ago on Chromebooks are coming to three times as many stores, including Walmart, Staples, and more 1 reply 1 recommend

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Yup. I believe, from deducing what Sundar Pichai said at I/O, that more Chromebooks are coming this year. Let’s hope a middle ground option comes, from Google (not Samsung, Asus, Acer etc), at a good price.

1 day ago on Chromebooks are coming to three times as many stores, including Walmart, Staples, and more 1 reply 1 recommend

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Erm…OK.

1 day ago on Chromebooks are coming to three times as many stores, including Walmart, Staples, and more 2 recommends

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Don’t forget packaged apps.

1 day ago on Chromebooks are coming to three times as many stores, including Walmart, Staples, and more 1 reply 1 recommend

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Google sells them in their Chrome Zones and on the Play Store.

1 day ago on Chromebooks are coming to three times as many stores, including Walmart, Staples, and more 1 reply 1 recommend

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My parents currently have a Mac, but could quite easily get by on just a Chromebook. All they use is Word/Google Docs and a web browser. Could convert them totally to Docs and bang. Chromebook is perfect.

I mean, for us, a Chromebook cannot currently be our only PC. We need things like Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere etc. But if Skype make a web app (which I believe they’re doing), a Chromebook would be perfect for the 60/70+ generation, and the child market as well, as a first computer.

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Pixel with Haswell = yes.

1 day ago on Chromebooks are coming to three times as many stores, including Walmart, Staples, and more 1 reply 11 recommends

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Yup; that’s what a $250 Samsung Chromebook is for.

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I’d like to see an MBA with a touchscreen, don’t get me wrong, but at the current point in time I don’t think it needs one.

I mean, look at it this way: you’re not giving to give your child a chance to colour on an MBA, because these days a laptop is, primarily, a work machine, used for getting work done, like writing or graphics work. You’d give your child an iPad or a tablet, which is a much more child-centric device, because they can just touch it like they would a piece of paper. Even with a touchscreen, an MBA wouldn’t be perfect for that kind of thing, because it’s still a work machine first and foremost.

I recognise what you’re saying. I really do. Apple almost certainly have a touchscreen MBA in their labs or R&D. At some point in the next 5 years they’ll probably release it, but at the current moment, I genuinely don’t think it needs a touchscreen.

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OS X is a very modern OS, actually. It doesn’t need a touchscreen.

great machine if all you do is use google docs or live in a browser

There are many, many apps on the Mac App Store. More than on the Windows App Store on Windows 8, I’d imagine.

Windows 8 is great. It’s personally not to my tastes, but I recognise that many people prefer it over OS X, and I recognise that you may not want a MacBook because it doesn’t run Windows or have a touchscreen. But OS X certainly isn’t an old OS. It’s got a lot of features, both user facing and under-the-hood, that Windows does not have.

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Fair enough. Wasn’t sure which it was. Thanks.

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You could buy a Chromebook, but admittedly, apart from the Pixel, the hardware is worse than a MBP or MBA.

2 days ago on MacBook Air review (13-inch, 2013) 1 recommend

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As far as I know, drivers work in Windows on newer Macs like the MBA, but only for things like 2 finger scrolling, dragging, clicking, 2 finger clicking etc. The more ‘advanced’ stuff that OS X has, like pinch to zoom, rotating a picture and swiping with 3 fingers, I don’t think Windows supports, at least on Mac hardware.

But as I said: everyone has a different experience with this kind of thing.

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Everyone has a different experience with this kind of thing, but I’ve found Windows run nicely on Macs. I think Joanna Stern recommended a Macbook Air as the best Windows laptop too. But again, everyone’s experience differs.

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Well, the OS gets better; Mavericks has many power saving attributes and features compared to Mountain Lion. If Mavericks is tested on a brand new MBA, same spec as the one Nilay just tested, I wouldn’t be surprised to see it get 14-15 hours. If tested on this exact MBA, it probably wouldn’t as obviously the battery would deteriorate over time; although considering Mavericks is due in the fall, it wouldn’t deteriorate by much.

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Would not be surprised to see it getting 14-15 hours with Mavericks on the battery test.

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Google have to respond to the benchmark set by Safari though. Chrome, and Firefox’s, power usage is just awful on OS X (and maybe Windows and Linux – not checked) compared to Safari. And I say that as a Chrome fan.

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Then its no good for any work place other than being a journalist.

I’ve found that OS X is generally better for graphics work than Windows. But they’ll be people that disagree, so that’s just an opinion, not an absolute statement.

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