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Google confirms its Pixelbook group has new laptops and tablets inbound
Last month, Business Insider reported that Google might be shifting employees out of the laptop and tablet division that brought us the premium, pricey Pixelbook and Pixel Slate, citing "roadmap cutbacks." But though Google originally declined to comment, the company now tells The Verge that its hardware division actually does have new laptops and tablets on the way.
While Google wouldn't talk details or timing, it did drop a big hint earlier today — as 9to5Google reports, the company led a session at its Cloud Next 2019 conference dubbed "Introducing Google Hardware for Business," where it suggested that a new device might help on-the-go employees in ways that the Pixelbook and Pixel Slate couldn't quite accomplish.
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Previously: Google Hardware Makes Cuts to Laptop and Tablet Development, Cancels Products
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday April 11 2019, @02:20PM
I got a Pixelbook almost exactly a year ago. The first thing I did is put it into developer mode. Install Crouton. Then several crouton containers with different flavors of Linux. These are cheap even with a decent amount of software -- about 5 GB each.
In the Chrome OS Downloads folder, I create a Linux folder. Then put all important files in there. Java runtimes. Eclipse. Node.js. Gimp 2.10 AppImage executable. And other stuff. Each Cronton container replaces it's distribution's Downloads folder with the Chrome OS Downloads folder -- so file sharing amongst the various containers is easy. On all my other non-pixelbook machines, I put all my development everything under a ~/Dev folder. So on each Crouton container, it takes only one symlink: ln -s /home/danny/Downloads/Linux/Dev /home/danny/Dev. Then all my containers have all of my development tools.
My warranty is not void. I have all kinds of programming tools. Multiple languages. Java. JavaScript. Python, and anything else is just an 'apt install' away.
The pixelbook is extremely thin. Beautiful. Nice build. Reasonably powerful (mine 8GB / 128 SSD, core i5).
Maybe it's not for everyone, but I'm having a great time with mine.
Oh, and it runs Android apps. So I could run Termux, etc. But why when I have multiple croutons. And am dabbling with Crostini. So I enjoy a number of favorite Android apps on the device as well. I have gobs of videos and mp3s, and some offline texts to read, so my pixelbook is great offline on a plane for example. And with all that, I've still got about 36 GB free space.
To each their own. But I think a Pixelbook is pretty sweet. There are few things I could do on a "real" laptop that I cannot do on my Pixelbook with multiple croutons set up. I can run multiple full Linux desktops at the same time, and cheaply.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.