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mystes posted:You repeatedly use the term "ARC" to refer to running android apps on Chromebooks, but AFAIK the current system is not based on ARC which was the previous failed attempt to get Android apps to run on Chromebooks using a completely different approach. I think this is correct. A lot of current info on this subject confusingly continues to talk about ARC, but I think that's just people continuing to use an outdated term to refer to the new thing.
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mystes posted:Also, are people really using chromebooks outside of education in 2017? Yes. I mean I don't have any statistics at hand, but I see them all the time, so at least some people are using them.
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Oct 29, 2017 18:02
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mystes posted:My original goal was basically just to do word processing, so your use case makes sense LionArcher. Office 365 online is a thing that is good. Better than Google Docs in some ways, worse in others. I always have internet so I don't know the answer to this, but I wonder how Office's offline features compare to Googles.
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Mental Hospitality posted:The 14in metal Acer Chromebook I bought over a year ago might be the best sub-$300 gadget I've ever bought. Wonderfully sturdy, 10+ hour battery, and great IPS display. Complaints are minor; I wish it had a backlit keyboard and the CPU is just this side of adequate (but for a passively cooled SoC it really isn't too terrible). It is an excellent couch machine. Chromebook manufacturers seem to hate backlit keyboards.
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Oct 30, 2017 15:57
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What does Android 3.0 have to do with anything?
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Nov 7, 2017 15:23
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Let us know if mkbhd's criticism of the pen is accurate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja_GMU7-sjs Thermopyle fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Nov 10, 2017 |
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Nov 10, 2017 14:58
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I dunno, but I'm also fed up with its uselessness.
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MrNemo posted:Ok this is probably going to seem like a dumb question first of but important. Work occasionally requires me going to China (like once a year or so). Are Chromebooks totally inoperable there? Are there VPN options with them? It's rare enough it's not necessarily a deal breaker but couldn't find anything immediately online. You can use a L2TP VPN with a Chromebook. On bleeding edge Canary versions of the OS, you can even tunnel your traffic through any of the Android VPN apps like Strongswan (assuming of course your Chromebook runs Android apps). That'll make it to more main line versions soon enough.
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Nov 15, 2017 19:43
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I dunno, he seems to be providing useful information... A thread just circle jerkin over how great chromebooks are doesn't seem too useful.
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Jan 21, 2018 23:31
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silence_kit posted:That’s a very misleading portrait of my posts in this thread. I appreciate your posts, but... silence_kit posted:Chromebooks still are sort of half-baked consumer products and are really only compelling due to their lower prices when compared to Windows laptops and MacBooks. Doesn't exactly convey the feeling that ChromeOS is fine except for the Android experience not being the best. On the other hand, this... Atomizer posted:and there is ambiguity where necessary (i.e. notice that there's no claim that 100% of Android apps work perfectly.) is just weird. Not claiming that 100% of Android apps work perfectly is not the same thing as asserting there is ambiguity, and the claim from the OP that " pretty much all mainstream apps that you’d want to run on your CB work as expected" doesn't seem to be accurate unless you consider video streaming applications to be not-mainstream. And I would think that's pretty weird to think.
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Jan 23, 2018 00:28
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Atomizer posted:The issue is with using Android apps to play cached video, which is not streaming. Oh come on. I give up with you.
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Jan 23, 2018 17:17
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silence_kit posted:If you want to make a car analogy, this is not it. Oh, drat, this is a good post. I can't wait to see the response. My guess is that it's something like this: Yes, it's not good that the specific apps you want to use do not work correctly, however there are specific apps that do not work on every type of device, ChromeOS or not. Does that make all app-running devices half-baked consumer devices? I don't think so.
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Jan 27, 2018 19:08
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Atomizer posted:I can tell neither of you are car guys, because as I illustrated above that car analogy is neither "good" nor relevant to my original one. Except the post I made was agreeing with the post you just made, so....maybe you guys need to take a break from the thread or something? You're talking past each other.
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Jan 28, 2018 20:45
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Atomizer posted:Sorry, I interpreted your post as making fun of my own posting (because it's weird to praise his bad analogy and then write my own reply for me.) It's because his analogy wasn't as bad as you're saying it is, but my point was the same as yours.
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Jan 29, 2018 16:32
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Toshimo posted:I haven't met a tablet I've been happy with and I've got a desktop-replacement level laptop already, so I thought maybe I'd give one of these a try on the cheap to see if it will do the mundane stuff I'd like in a more portable form. Pretty much any Chromebook will do all of that. Though with PDFs it depends on the PDF. I've got a PDF open right now on an i7 desktop PC with 32GB of RAM and it takes like 10-20 seconds to pan around it. It's horrific.
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Mar 6, 2018 00:56
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It sounds like Drive is also a pain to use in a manner its not intended. Have you tried getting help to fix your problems with GPM? This is sounding suspiciously similar to an XY problem.
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May 7, 2018 16:33
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Hot drat. I can finally use a chromebook for real.
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May 8, 2018 21:59
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From a layman's perspective...yes. Theoretically, you will be able to run any apps that run on Linux.
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May 10, 2018 14:55
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Statutory Ape posted:so does that mean this will be the year of the chromebook desktop? Not really. If it ever happens, it will take many years of incremental improvements.
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May 10, 2018 15:26
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It works just like Docker does on a Windows host. Namely, it runs a Linux VM and then runs apps in containers inside that VM. As long as the CPU supports vmx, the VM might be a percent or three performance hit over the same app running natively. NBD
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May 10, 2018 21:15
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RichterIX posted:Will it extend to older Chromebooks like the one I just got? Should I even bother with Crouton now if I'm not in any hurry, or should I wait and see how this all ends up panning out? No one knows.
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May 11, 2018 00:10
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Statutory Ape posted:What market share do chromebook have? I feel like you shouldve typed that into Google.
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May 18, 2018 17:36
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Ok, i'll see what i can do.
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May 23, 2018 17:17
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The Spin 13 in particular looks good. 3:2 displays are the best displays.
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May 23, 2018 22:16
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I'm not really answering your question, but just in case you've not thought of this... I have a windows VM running in KVM on one of my servers and when I need to use Windows for some reason and I'm at a not-Windows machine I RDP into that VM. I do this from my Chromebook once in a blue moon.
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ThermoPhysical posted:I've noticed there's a ton of people saying that the Pro has issues with the display's touchscreen going wonky from a week to about 6 months after usage. When it's RMA'd to Samsung, they replace the display and then it can sometimes crop up again. I mean, it's just anecdotes, but I've heard of this multiple times.
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