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Google Introduces the Chromebook Pixel to Compete With the MacBook Air

Giuly said:
I'm talking about the point that avatars are defined it this forum as 75x75px, and for them to be 'retina enabled', you need to fit 150x150px in there because a retina Mac sees that as 75x75 points with 4 pixel per point.
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<img src="Some150x150pxImage.png" style="width:75px; height:75px;" alt="This is retina!" />
Is the solution, and yes, it would downscale the image on lower-resolution screens. If it's up to me, you could also use some JavaScript magic to determine the point size and load @2x images as appropriate. But I was initially talking about text, which is obviously vectorized and hence always retina optimized, even though I didn't explicitly point that out.

The question was how exactly you would do that with a MacRumors avatar.
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Are you talking about enabling a feature for retina displays that shows double sized avatars on Macrumors, or more about how it'd scale it upwards?

If it's the former, that'd be easy to do, and it'd be done in about the same way you described with Javascript. Go to a site like www.interfacelift.com on your comp and iPad. Notice that it identifies your display resolution. Macrumors could do about the same thing. If it identifies you're visiting the website on a device with larger than x resolution, it could load up the higher res 70x70 assets for you.

Thing is, not everyone is gonna have a single universal resolution. Retina on the iPhone is a lower res than Retina on the iPad or rMBP. By just going by that standard, a 70x70 avatar would be far bigger on an iPhone than it would be an rMBP. What'd they'd do to fix this is definite the maximum and minimum amount of space an avatar is supposed to take up. The way I think it works is that all webpages are designed to a set resolution (I believe it's 1024x768), and all images and assets you've got in the page are scaled to one certain size regardless of the monitor's resolution. Like a 15x15 avatar designed to take up 50x50px on the template won't be displayed as a 15x15 image. It'll be upscaled to 50px. The 50px in this instance is relative, and all your assets are upscaled or downscaled to fit into their designated positions on the page.

This is why the avatars on your iPad are about the same positioning and size as they are on, say, a 1440x900 MBA.

Though take everything I say with a grain of salt. I'm hardly an HTML guru over here.
 
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I.Love.Apple said:
On second thought...

iCloud comes at $100 for 55GB per year. To get 1TB for 3 years with iCloud one would have to pay $5454. As usual, Google gives out stuff for free. This Pixel is the best bargain around.
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Nothing free about it - Google just bypasses your wallet and goes straight for your soul so they can sell you to third parties. Chrome is for patsies.
 
I hope that simply offering the option of LTE in a laptop will be enough to get Apple to put the damn option into their laptops already.
 
flux73 said:
They used a black background, not white. *Totally* different.
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They also made Chromebook a thin font, and Pixel a heavy font. COMPLETE OPPOSITE of Apple's product names lol! :p

P.S. Is that a 4:3 display??? Seriously???
 
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TruthfulBastard said:
UGH and it's also fat. Reminds me of the Titanium G4 from back in 01 or something...gross
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GAHH-ROSS! OLOL

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Yeah. That's huge. It looks somewhat thicker than the rMBP, but a little thinner than the regular oldschool MBP.
 
Chromebooks - Google Drive Storage

I can't seem to locate any information relating to Google Drive storage for Chromebooks. It seems like all models come with a certain amount of storage for a certain amount of time, but what happens after that time runs out? I assume you have to pay a monthly or annual fee. And what happens if you can't afford to pay the fee? Can you start paying later and access the files that were stored in the cloud? I think a Chromebook could be a useful device for certain people, but I just can't imagine ever going this route myself. Perhaps time and innovation will change my mind, but for now I am happy using my MacBook Pro (among other devices) and keeping my files stored locally and backed up securely to an external drive.

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I.Love.Apple said:
On second thought...

iCloud comes at $100 for 55GB per year. To get 1TB for 3 years with iCloud one would have to pay $5454. As usual, Google gives out stuff for free. This Pixel is the best bargain around.
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But the 1TB of storage is not for the life of the machine, right? What happens after three years?
 
What's the deal with that promo video? It's almost IDENTICAL to the Apple videos, except darker. It's like Apple in the Bizarro Universe. Superman is to Bizarro like Apple is to Google. Hmmm, yeah, that pretty much sums it up. The original is smart, bright, good. The bizarro copy is dumb, dark, bad.

But the mindless Android/Google cheapskate drones out there are chanting "Must save money. Must buy cheap crap. Apple is a rip-off. I must buy cheap crap." Knock yourselves out, drones. But I doubt I'm going to be the envious one when I see you on an airplane using your free GoGo minutes on a computer with no software while I pay $10 to use and enjoy my MacBook Air.
 
DrMotownMac said:
What's the deal with that promo video? It's almost IDENTICAL to the Apple videos, except darker. It's like Apple in the Bizarro Universe. Superman is to Bizarro like Apple is to Google. Hmmm, yeah, that pretty much sums it up. The original is smart, bright, good. The bizarro copy is dumb, dark, bad.

But the mindless Android/Google cheapskate drones out there are chanting "Must save money. Must buy cheap crap. Apple is a rip-off. I must buy cheap crap." Knock yourselves out, drones. But I doubt I'm going to be the envious one when I see you on an airplane using your free GoGo minutes on a computer with no software while I pay $10 to use and enjoy my MacBook Air.
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Comical.
 
samcraig said:
When did I say they were in the same position. I argued with the poster because he made it out that Apple wasn't interested in advertising - only hardware and software.

I then responded to your comment "I've never seen any indication that Apple would love to be in the advertising business. "

iAds isn't the advertising business?

It most definitely is.
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Sure. But that, of course, ignores the whole point of the comments you responded to. I'm sure you can understand the distinction being made between building a business based on advertising revenue and developing an advertising business to enhance your primary revenue generating products.
 
I'm wondering what kind of profit margin are they building into the price. Here I thought Apple's margins were high.
 
after realizing how much it costs I looked at the date on my MBP hoping it will say "April 1". I installed Chrome OS w/Parallels - I would take Ubuntu machine over Chrome without thinking twice.
 
When I first saw the story and read the specs, my first thought was," Wow, Google and their partners have found a way to offer a good alternate to Apple."

THEN.....I saw the price and started laughing my head off. There is no chance, if I had the money available, that I would choose the Google Pixel over a MBA or MBP.
 
Google betrayed their prime demographic here:

People who are willing to put up with cheap, hobbled crap to get a good price. Now they're asking them to pay a premium for the cheap, hobbled crap?
 
Peace said:
What's so ironic is while other companies are copying Apple's way of introducing new hardware. With Jonny Ive et.al. what they are really doing is validating and making Apple look like the real deal and making their company look like the emulator.

In other words it bites them in the butt.
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You are so correct! Lets see what the apple haters say to that! :apple::apple:
 
If all you need is an internet appliance, Asus still sells a version their eee netbook for about $250. They're no fun to use, but they do the basics just fine, are pretty light, and the battery lasts a long time. So I don't see where the extra $1000+ in value and fucntionality is in the Chromebook.
 
Google is charging $1,299+ for a web browser and try to sell it as a MacBook knock-off. What's wrong with them?
 
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