On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 09:27:49 UTC, Paulo  Pinto wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 08:48:03 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 08:44:28 UTC, Paulo  Pinto wrote:
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>>> Stream?! I had to search for it, only found the HP Stream model, running a full Windows 8.1 OS, not a browser pretending to be an OS.
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>>> Paulo
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>> Yes, and that "full Windows 8.1 OS" makes it run 2-3x slower than equivalent hardware Chromebooks.
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>> http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/28/hp-stream-11-review/
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> So what, a lousy laptop model from HP vs a lousy OS experience from Google?
>
> You will never convince me there is any good stuff in Chromebooks, as well as, I will never convince you they belong alongside WebOS and Symbian Web Widgets in OS Heaven.

the only chromebooks made by Google are extremely highend ones...

On 06/03/2015 04:44 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
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> Surfaces have always been full-blown laptops with detachable keyboards.
>

Very, very, very low-end laptops (with a high-end price tag) considering their notable lack of I/O and storage, and their sub-par keyboards (by laptop standards anyway. Keyboards: desktop > laptop > surface > tablet > phone). Only the CPU/RAM really matched real laptops, none of the other specs. And that's why all the attention they got didn't really translate into sales.

Though surface certainly *has* been improving on all those fronts. They're certainly poised to *become* full-blown laptops with detachable keyboards, but they haven't always been.