Chromebook Pixel: Google's Retina, Touchscreen, MacBook Pro Counterpunch

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Until now, Chromebooks hadn't been much more than glorified netbooks; underpowered curios best suited for technological novices. The 13-inch, touchscreen, retina-displayed, full-powered Chromebook Pixel, though, appears to be anything but. And it should be enough to make Apple at least a little nervous. At least until you get to the price.

The anodized aluminum Pixel is purpose-built for working in the cloud. Rather than the standard 16:9 resolution, the Pixel is optimized for viewing Internet-based content with a 2560x1700 resolution on a 3:2 aspect ratio—which provides 18 percent more vertical space than the conventional 16:9 layout. That's 4.3 million pixels total, 239 per inch—appreciably more than the 13-inch retina MacBook Pro's 227 ppi. What's more, the display is Gorilla Glass and doubles as a capacitive touch screen.

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HP Makes A Chromebook: What Does It Mean?

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When the world's largest PC manufacturer starts making Chromebooks, what does it mean? Does it reveal a degree of uncertainty about the direction of the PC? A response to the perceived complexity of Windows 8 machines? An underserved market it can exploit?

Why not all of the above?

Early Monday morning, Hewlett-Packard announced the Pavilion 14 Chromebook, a $329.99 netbook boasting both a larger screen - 14 inches - than rival Chromebooks, as well as a new pricing tier. HP's Pavilion 14 brings the total Chromebook count to four: the $229 Samsung Chromebook, the $199 Acer C7, the $449 Samsung Chromebook 550, and the Pavilion 14. HP's screen may be the largest of the bunch, but its processor - a dual-core Intel Celeron - sits below the Chromebook's 550's Intel Core processor.

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HP Leaks Plans For Its First Google-Powered Chromebook

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HP will be launching its first Chromebook in February, according to a leaked document found on the HP website.

Chromebooks are Google's name for laptops that run its stripped-down, Web-friendly Chrome operating system.

The document is no longer on the site but it revealed pretty detailed plans and specs for a device called the HP Pavilion Chromebook.

It will have a 1.1GHz Celeron processor, 2GB of RAM, a 16GB solid-state drive, and a 14-inch, 1366x768 display, reports Nathan Ingraham on The Verge.

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New Google Chromebook Has a Great Price: $250

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Google's having a rough day, but here's some good news: It has a new Chromebook, and this time it's $250. That's pretty amazing.

Chromebooks are an overlooked part of Google's arsenal, but they really shouldn't be. If you don't need specific programs, and just need a computer to work on docs on and browse the web, Chromebooks are pretty much the best inexpensive laptops you can get.

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