Notice they call it a "product" not a "tool."

The "tool" would be the person who buys one.

I like this myself, though I'd also like to be wealthy enough to buy it as frivilously as most macbook pro owners do.

http://www.razerzone.com/store/razer-blade

or this

http://www.razerzone.com/store/razer-edge-pro

same price as chromefluff but an actual powerful windows computer in a tablet with 256gig ssd

To be fair, most netbooks couldn't run windows either. I have a Toshiba netbook that was worthless until I put Linux on it. Now I can actually multitask multimedia stuff.

You can mod them, I swapped an 8 gb SSD for a 120Gb, anyways the Atom can run Windows 7 32-bit well, and can surf the internet well enough. I just hate having to build one out of a tablet, netbooks filled a niche I need, bigger than a phone but smaller than a laptop and with a real keyboard.

Who cares what it does. It's a work of fucking art and you love our brand appeal soo... ::fart::

I'm using a secondhand HP Pavilion that's about 4 years old. This thing is (on paper) slightly underpowered compared to the HP, and that's setting aside the lack of storage and connectivity.

If it were priced to compete with the Kindle Fire (which should really be under itself) it would be fantastic.

This stuff is all made with what amounts to slave labor, the least they could do is pass the savings on to us, right?

JHMF, you should really consider saving up some cash and getting a System76. I bought the base version of their desktop and it is FUCKING SWEET. It's noteiceably faster than my MacBook that has almost identical hardware. Programs load instantly, even under Ubuntu. I loaded up Nautilus and ran a file management script and the icons disappeared so fast. After about a week I realized I don't even have to rice this fucker with a Gentoo install because there's no point.

I have a Sony Vaio laptop that cost I don't know how much because work bought it for me.

No, just ChromeOS or a couple of Linux distributions.

Say, you might want to goose your sarcasm detector up a bit there (wink).

It seems to me that if this is an ARM device (as opposed to the traditional PC x86 architecture), you may be able to run Windows 8 on it in the future.

What? Oh.

Windows 8 sucks a big fat penis.

Windows 2000 is still the best Windows.

Incidentally, it's also the only version of Windows that actually performs well with solid state drives. I guess 7 does OK too.

Didn't you hear the shit about how few lines it has?

Webapps are bullshit.

Oh wait, I guess I didn't read the right tech articles about this thing. NOW I understand why almost every tech journalist is giving this thing sloppy blowjobs all over the fucking place:
See...it has a really, REALLY nice screen!


Oh, and it's well built.


Cool.

Web apps CAN be useful, but I think they're best when they work with non-web apps, usually to let me get at things when I'm not at my main computer. I might type something out on Google Docs when I'm not at home, but it's eventually going to get downloaded into Word on my local drive.

I hate this trend away from installing actual apps on your actual home computer. I'd rather not pay a monthly fee to use office or photoshop.

What you say? It's got LESS SCREWS, damnit! In fact, none at all. Why would you ever want to open the box?

If you want to access stuff away from your main computer, I strongly recommend Dropbox. Webapps can be useful when they're about networking. Word processing on the web? Hahahaha fuck you. I'll use a pencil first.

In my 20th century life, I was never especially technical. Migrating to Linux was a huge painful frustrating hassle for a long time, but this is exactly the reason why I did it. The Linux developers are habitual fixers of the unbroke, and not easy to live with. I stopped trying to get all my friends to switch a long time ago. But they're not going to roll over for this crap.

I had to use Google docs for work for over a year and I'm perfectly comfortable saying that it has literally no redeeming qualities.

Jesus. I paid 0 for my 2 TB external hard drive, and I don't have to worry about Google mining my data, hackers stealing it, or network failure rendering it inaccessible. All I gotta worry about is not dropping soda all over it and I'm good to go, from now until whenever I decide to buy a better one.

It really costs you fifty bucks a MONTH for that crap?!

Wow. Just, wow.

What?

"We wanted to make the hardware disappear!" Yeah, well, you did that.

Bastard.

Taking all the porn out of Google Image Search was a staggering blow to me as well. Google is still my homepage, but I do all my image searching with Bing now. Microsoft's Bing. _BING_. I mean, Jesus Christ.

Uhh, you can still get scads of porn in google image search. Just turn off Safe Search...

That's just it. You CAN'T turn off Safe Search, at least not in the United States. Your choices are Strict Filtering, or Moderate Filtering. It's been like that for a few months now, and Google's offered fuckall in the way of an explanation. Apparently they think that automatically defaulting to Moderate Filtering and then burying the Safe Search Off filter in an option menu just wasn't pornproof enough for our wholesome American eyeballs. If I had to guess, I'd say that someone on Google's Board of Executives is a Mormon who's gotten real into this "libertarian paternalism" bullshit that's been floating around academic circles for the past few years. It's just a guess, but, in the absence of any better explanation, it'll have to do.

Yeah. You can get porn to appear, but you have to search something that the only thing Google Image can find is porn, and then it warns you before letting you see it.

Try doing a Google Image search right now for a pornstar's name and see if you can get the naughty pictures to show up. I think you'll find it rather illuminating in how chaste Google's become.

Huh, well I'm in the U.S. and it is off. Seems like you're right about just a porn stars name not always giving you porn. But some of them do give porn results with just their name as the search terms. But putting in a porn stars name plus the word porn always gives porn results. I don't see the problem.

I was confused about that at first. What Google has done is they've taken away the three setting search filter (strict filtering, moderate filtering, no filtering) and made it so the porn is hidden unless you use more specific terms, even with the filter turned 'off.' If you type "tits" now all you'll get is tame pictures of DD cleavage or birds. You gotta mine deeper with "women showing bare tits," "lesbians licking puffy areolas," or "women spreading fat pussy lips."

It's total bullshit and completely unnecessary, but at least the porn's still out there.

It's actually 1x1, all that other stuff is interpolated in hardware.