Google brings new Gemini features to Chromebooks, debuts first on-device AI
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...and we start the clock on countdown to the execution of NotebookLM. The grave is already dug in the Google Graveyard, it's only a matter of time now. It was a good product; we hardly knew ye.
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a friend sent me this just yesterday. for some reason it's all i can think about when i think about the further metastasization of gemini through the google ecosystem.
BEGIN COPY
I have a full set of Encyclopedia Britannica.
I can't give them away.
The dump will charge me by weight to dispose of them.
But to me they are beautiful.
Matching Great Books included.
When we used to look up something, we would discover unrelated things along the way.
Also, you had to organise your thoughts to find an answer.
Now people speak to their phone and voila, an answer.
Not necessarily the right one or even the truth just AN answer.
One that is algorithmically collated by popularity.
As the graffiti said, "eat shit, ten trillion flies can't be wrong".
END COPY
BEGIN COPY
I have a full set of Encyclopedia Britannica.
I can't give them away.
The dump will charge me by weight to dispose of them.
But to me they are beautiful.
Matching Great Books included.
When we used to look up something, we would discover unrelated things along the way.
Also, you had to organise your thoughts to find an answer.
Now people speak to their phone and voila, an answer.
Not necessarily the right one or even the truth just AN answer.
One that is algorithmically collated by popularity.
As the graffiti said, "eat shit, ten trillion flies can't be wrong".
END COPY
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I honestly really liked my Samsung Chromebook. It was honestly one of the finest pieces of mobile computing I've ever encountered. Simple interface, enough and useful apps, small form factor, and the reversible 2-in-1 with EMR was wonderful for remote access and meetings.
It was with some reluctance that I retired it to the electronics recycling bin at Best Buy.
Google hasn't so far as I can tell made a positive addition to Chrome OS since. It's just larger and more demanding.
AI isn't changing that unfortunate viewpoint.
It was with some reluctance that I retired it to the electronics recycling bin at Best Buy.
Google hasn't so far as I can tell made a positive addition to Chrome OS since. It's just larger and more demanding.
AI isn't changing that unfortunate viewpoint.
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Wouldn't it be wild if Google had any interest whatsoever in listening to actual customers instead of listening to whitepapers claiming that AI is important for business other than the business of writing AI whitepapers.
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$750 Chromebook?! Great that you can now drain your battery extra fast with AI, though!
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I doubt that. NotebookLM is wildly popular among business users, and many enterprise customers are already building significant processes on it.
Google kills stuff that consumers care about far more cavalierly than they do the things the people who are paying them do.
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Given how popular Chromebooks are in schools, would school IT be able to disable this feature? If students can use offline AI on their school-issued computers, that's going to encourage them even more to use it instead of learning to properly write on their own.
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Trust me that is not a high bar. We buy Chromebooks by the hundred, and the ARM based ones traditionally have filled the "I have so little funding, I will literally take anything..." market niche. We buy Intel and occasionally AMD, and have generally pleased, considering the typical cost of these devices.
Also I'm sure there is someone who is in the center of the venn diagram of person willing to spend $750 on a laptop, but also wants to run ChromeOS, but I've never met them.
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I've been looking at laptops for a bit, and just skipped over anything "Chrome" ONLY because it has ChromeOS and therefore deep hooks into the Google ecosystem.
Your venn diagram is accurate for me. If I'm spending that much on hardware, my software and OS had better be mine to control, and not a fucking company's.
That's the whole point to an OS - to give ME control over MY hardware. ChromeOS, Apple's OS's, Android, and Microsoft's all belong to someone else who feels free to fuck with my hardware and user experience without my say-so. Linux, not so much. And I have nearly full control over what and when.
If a Chromebook could run my choice of Linux I'd consider it, just to upgrade from my ancient 3rd gen i3 32 bit laptop. But if I'm stuck with their OS, no fucking way.
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This looks like what google pixelbook owners have been waiting for forever, decent cpu, fanless, 16gb ram (decent for chromeos), 256gb storage is good too for a chromebook. There hasn't been a great fanless and fast enough cpu in forever.
Chromeos gives you access to the app store, so you can basically run anything. This is an arm, but the early reviews says it's faster than even the best intel chromebooks. I always wanted someone to make a chromebook on something like an apple M1, and this looks like it could have finally arrived.
This should be different than all those painfully slow cpu chromebooks that were a pain to use. But time will tell. Just ordered one.
Chromeos gives you access to the app store, so you can basically run anything. This is an arm, but the early reviews says it's faster than even the best intel chromebooks. I always wanted someone to make a chromebook on something like an apple M1, and this looks like it could have finally arrived.
This should be different than all those painfully slow cpu chromebooks that were a pain to use. But time will tell. Just ordered one.
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I bought my Acer Chromebook Plus for my 2nd grade son to practice typing and do basic school work. Cheap i3 processor, 8GB ram and 512GB storage, all for $220 after discount.
I'd gladly keep that and buy the replacement version in a couple years than spending $750 for "AI"
I'd gladly keep that and buy the replacement version in a couple years than spending $750 for "AI"
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The Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 is a very interesting device. Keyboard and track pad are nowhere close to Lenovo standards, but they work. OLED screen has good-enough resolution and a nice, vertical ratio that is good for getting work done. Performance is very strong - by far the best I've seen in a Chromebook. But the best part is storage - and now Chrome lets you sync huge amounts from Drive to the machine, eliminating a main complaint about the OS.
Price is too high, especially for the poor tactile experience. But it fits my travel needs perfectly.
Price is too high, especially for the poor tactile experience. But it fits my travel needs perfectly.
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