Yeah, client-server computer never went away,
but let's face it: People eventually prefered personal computers over VT100s connected to a VAX or a 3270 connected to an AS/400, that's why the PC, the Apple II, the C64 had a huge success. Computing independence, that it is. I like to decide when I need something from the internet, and being able to use my MBP even while flying (try that with "the cloud", paradoxically enough).
Today, people can't stop talking about cloud computing. This ChromeBook is very much the NC realised.
Yes, more expensive than a netbook, with all the power of a netbook, without the netbook's ability to really function offline. Sounds just fabulous.![]()
alent1234 said:As a beta tester, these suck
I can buy a real laptop or tablet for $500 that doesn't need Internet access to work
LOL whatever the Google fanboys are raving about sounds just like the PrisonPC.Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_2 like Mac OS X; en-gb) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8H7 Safari/6533.18.5)
EXACTLY!!!
Come to Australia... I work in prisons across the country (teaching) and there's no wifi ANYWHERE when you're on the go. I imagine a 3.5G broadband stick will just make these computers REALLY slow.
These PC's are nothing new anyway. All Australian prisons have the same thing... they're called PrisonPC's. Everything's sandboxed and nothing is stored locally (to prevent hacking.) They're basically just a web browser and word program (and no, they're not allowed to use the internet on them.)
Sorry, but these are really useless.
Macbook... Chromebook. How original.
A coworker just received a new company-issued laptop yesterday. An ultra cheap-feeling plastic model, nothing like my semi-metal EliteBook (which still pales in comparison to a MacBook Pro despite the similar price tag).
Guess what his new HP laptop is called?
ProBook.
Take the MacBook Pro, drop the Mac part, switch the Book and Pro around...bingo!
Just no originality out there in PC Land.![]()
Please don't confuse the client-server model and thin computing. Both are not synonyms. You can very much have client-server using fat client software.
But let's also face it : Those thick computer applications were much more powerful and offered many capabilities that just weren't possible in the 70s and 80s in the thin client model.
As it stands, these days, thin clients and their backing infrastructure is much more powerful that it was, and it is now possible to have rich multimedia experiences "over the wire". Things like sound, graphics and complex animations can now be pushed out in a deported display environment using protocols like ICA, NX or RDP. Things that in the 90s you couldn't even start to imagine.
Not to mention the Web browser is becoming the ultimate thin client. WebApps have been growing and the frameworks surrounding them have been in constant improvments.
I saw the beginnings of "DHTML" and Webapps, back in the 90s. We wrote our stuff back then with mod_perl to get 100 mhz servers to push out the HTML that our scripts created fast enough to multiple clients. Things started out quite simple : We replaced E-mail applications, NNTP news readers, IRC chats. We wrote all of these as Web Apps instead of thick clients that you needed to install.
Everyone laughed at Scott McNeily when he proclaimed around 1998 : "The Network is the Computer" as he introduced the concept of the NC to supersede the PC. Today, people can't stop talking about cloud computing. This ChromeBook is very much the NC realised.
How do you get from ProBook to MacBook Pro in any thought pattern?
lolwut?
How do you get from ProBook to MacBook Pro in any thought pattern?
Are you serious?
Laptop computers began to be called notebooks when they reached a small size in the 1990s, but they did not have any special note-taking ability.
How do you get from ProBook to MacBook Pro in any thought pattern?
By completely ignoring EliteBook. ProBook, EliteBook. There's the real pattern.
Apple did not invent the use of "book" to describe a laptop.
Yes, you're all right of course. There are only a few words in the world other than "Pro" and "Book" to name your laptop model line.![]()
Yes, you're all right of course. There are only a few words in the world other than "Pro" and "Book" to name your laptop model line.![]()
Well apple stole "book" from notebook, so what's your point? Also apple stole "pro" from nivida: GeForce 2 Pro.
Exactly. Some people on this site really need to remove their Apple branded blinders. It's not like Apple invented the Xbook notation or anything. These things have been called notebook computers in forever.
Next thing you know, someone will go and claim Apple created Webkit and thus Google is taking Apple's creation for Chrome. You'd have to really be ignorant of Webkit's history to do that.![]()
When your main revenue is ADVERTISING, what's the motivation to do anything exciting? Everything you make is the handmaiden of ads. It's all about motivation. Google's motivation isn't to delight or excite the consumer. Which is why Apple stands out from the rest.
Posted from my iPad 2.
Next thing you know, someone will go and claim Apple created Webkit and thus Google is taking Apple's creation for Chrome. You'd have to really be ignorant of Webkit's history to do that.![]()
Apple will sue because book is an infringement on Macbook.
lol is rather sad that this wonderful thread deteriorated to this point because of this stupid dumb ass.