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What the Tech 153: The Inexpensive Chromebook Pixel

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Feb. 22, 2013 Paul Thurrott

This week on What The Tech, Sony announces the PlayStation 4 and Andrew and Paul discuss it’s features and how they measure up for a next gen gaming console, and Google announces the Chromebook Pixel, a cloud-based laptop with an expensive price tag.

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user
on Feb 22, 2013

Pixel is expensive but installing some Linux distribution on it (well, Chrome OS is Linux-based) would make it a perfect work computer for me. Not many laptops has such a nice resolution/dpi. Unfortunately.

user
on Feb 23, 2013

Is it possible to install Windows 8 on Chromebook Pixel?

SoundersFan
on Feb 23, 2013

It's almost worth it supports Windows. But, at this point the price for a stand alone copy of Windows is pretty expensive. Did they sit on this until the cost of Windows went up?

SoundersFan
on Feb 23, 2013

Paul, Andrew, I think maybe I've cracked it. The purpose for the Pixel is to help their partners. This is a great way to spur interest in Chromebook. Google get's a whole lot of press and buzz around Chromebook. Everyone is going to laugh at the price and all the high end specs and say "no frickin' way." But look at this inexpensive chromebook from HP, Samsung, Asus, etcetera; "I can do that cheaper one."

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