And the Chromebook Pixel price is.....

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lopri

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Is Intel HD4000 really sufficient for 2560x1700? I don't know how efficient Chrome OS is at rendering, but on OS X HD4000 is laggy for 2560x1440. It just doesn't compute why Chromebook Pixel's battery life is so bad when it runs on IGP and SSD, just 4 GB or RAM, and the processor frequency is modest, to put it kindly.

How big is power disparity between touch display and non-touch display, everything else being equal? Does Chromebook Pixel's display also support digitizer?

Edit: Also, is it known who manufactures the Chromebook Pixel yet?
 
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TheStu

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Is Intel HD4000 really sufficient for 2560x1700? I don't know how efficient Chrome OS is at rendering, but on OS X HD4000 is laggy for 2560x1440. It just doesn't compute why Chromebook Pixel's battery life is so bad when it runs on IGP and SSD, just 4 GB or RAM, and the processor frequency is modest, to put it kindly.

How big is power disparity between touch display and non-touch display, everything else being equal? Does Chromebook Pixel's display also support digitizer?

Edit: Also, is it known who manufactures the Chromebook Pixel yet?

Well, the power brick looks a lot like what Asus is bundling with their systems these days...

As for the battery life, no one has cracked it open yet to see what capacity battery we're dealing with. But just looking at it, unless they REALLY screwed up, the battery should be about the same size as the rMBP 13 or maybe the MBA 13, but those both get better battery life. Maybe Google hasn't optimized the battery performance as much as they should?
 
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MrX8503

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The hardware design is absolutely stunning, finally somebody stopped the 16:9/16:10 nonsense. The only thing I don't understand is why don't they bump the storage to 64 GB and 128 GB and why not USB 3.0.

ChromeOS is enough for most people, but I don't think is enough for people buying $1300 laptops, since you can install Linux, advanced users can simply install a full distribution, or even cooler, use Crouton to run Ubuntu using the kernel from ChromeOS. The 1 TB of storage is actually great, although I wonder what is regular people supposed to do with 1 TB of storage and just a browser...

On the other hand, perhaps it's wrong to assume this is meant for a normal consumer.