Google Chromebooks
Available June 15. $349. Or, apparently, $20 a month for students.
I can see use for it, for writing, web browsing, and other non-intensive uses that normally require an iPad or a netbook. You'll have to be online for some stuff, but ever since Google Docs allowed you to save offline that's really not an issue. Looks as if everything's going to be coded in Chrome or HTML5, which will have some advantages and limitations as well. Bluntly, we will never have enough cheap, reasonably powerful machines to get people online. You want gaming, elaborate creation (e.g., full music DAW, Photoshop, Vegas Pro 10), high-end multimedia? This ain't your box.
Interesting? Interested? Couldn't care less?
I can see use for it, for writing, web browsing, and other non-intensive uses that normally require an iPad or a netbook. You'll have to be online for some stuff, but ever since Google Docs allowed you to save offline that's really not an issue. Looks as if everything's going to be coded in Chrome or HTML5, which will have some advantages and limitations as well. Bluntly, we will never have enough cheap, reasonably powerful machines to get people online. You want gaming, elaborate creation (e.g., full music DAW, Photoshop, Vegas Pro 10), high-end multimedia? This ain't your box.
Interesting? Interested? Couldn't care less?