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It has a bigger, pixel-dense screen, Intel processor and access to the Google Play Store for Android apps. The Flip's $470 price, significantly higher than the original, reflects these upgrades.
Launched by Google in February 2013, the Chromebook Pixel was the high-end machine in the Chromebook family. The laptop has an unusual 3:2 display aspect ratio touch screen featuring what was at its debut the highest pixel density of any laptop, [131] a faster CPU than its predecessors in the Intel Core i5, and an exterior design described by ...
In March 2014, Asus established a new price at the low-end of the Chromebox market with a compact, 1.32 pound model that retailed at $179 and featured a Celeron CPU and four USB 3.0 ports. [8] [9] Yahoo Tech columnist David Pogue called the Asus device among the smallest, "least-expensive desktop computers ever sold", likening it to a Smart car ...
On May 11, 2011, Google announced two Chromebooks from Acer and Samsung at Google I/O. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] The Samsung model was released on June 15, 2011, and the Acer model in mid-July. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] In August 2011, Netflix announced official support for ChromeOS through its streaming service, allowing Chromebooks to watch streaming movies and TV ...
Texas Instruments sold its laptop business to Acer in 1997. Toshiba: Japan Dynabook, Libretto, Portégé, Satellite, Satellite Pro, Qosmio, T series, Tecra: Toshiba fully exited the personal computer and laptop business in June 2020, transferring the remaining 19.9 percent shares to Sharp Corporation, which now runs the business as Dynabook Inc ...
In 2021, computer scientist and lawyer Jonathan Mayer stated that Chrome has increasingly become an agent for Google LLC than a user agent, as it is "the only major web browser that lacks meaningful privacy protections by default, shoves users toward linking activity with a Google Account, and implements invasive new advertising capabilities ...
The Pixelbook was planned as the next generation of Google laptops after the Chromebook Pixel laptop was discontinued in 2016. [8] The company realised the Chromebook line had become successful after a slow start, obtaining a market share of 58% of schools in the US, and designed the Pixelbook as a serious industry player that can compete with ...
The Chromebook Pixel is a type of Chromebook launched on February 21, 2013, with shipments starting immediately. [5] Sundar Pichai, the senior vice president of engineering in charge of Chrome and Android at that time, said that the goal behind the high-end Pixel model was "to push the boundary and build something premium.