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Johnny_P wrote:Changed the color profile, and now the MBP screen is fine. Less white, more yellowy, but no purple lines anymore. vv odd.

MBP for life.

I had my gf re-image my 2011 I "kept" from leftover at work since she's my IT person and it is reportedly working fine. I shall use this as my home one for a while longer and maybe buy a Chromeshit down the line if needed.

I'm also very much in the only buy if need :scrooge: camp unless it's beer, trips, and experiences, then I'm full :troywax:

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Gonna pick up a pixelbook tomorrow. Checked it out at WorstBuy. Thing is fucking :fullretard: fast. :plaid:

128 gig should be enough for me. I like the tablet ability. Keyboard is better than the recent macs.
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Johnny_P wrote: Sat Jun 09, 2018 11:37 pm Gonna pick up a pixelbook tomorrow. Checked it out at WorstBuy. Thing is fucking :fullretard: fast. :plaid:

128 gig should be enough for me. I like the tablet ability. Keyboard is better than the recent macs.
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razr390 wrote: Sat Jun 09, 2018 11:41 pm
Johnny_P wrote: Sat Jun 09, 2018 11:37 pm Gonna pick up a pixelbook tomorrow. Checked it out at WorstBuy. Thing is fucking :fullretard: fast. :plaid:

128 gig should be enough for me. I like the tablet ability. Keyboard is better than the recent macs.
:waxer:
My not-shitty-spec MBP feels like a snail compared to this thing. It brought up a usable web browser faster than any computer I've ever experienced. Click-BAM ready.

:mindblown:

It's also stupid thin. Screen is a little small IMO but usable because it's tall. Real estate on the screen isn't a hell of a lot less than my current laptop.
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Johnny_P wrote: Sat Jun 09, 2018 11:47 pm
razr390 wrote: Sat Jun 09, 2018 11:41 pm

:waxer:
My not-shitty-spec MBP feels like a snail compared to this thing. It brought up a usable web browser faster than any computer I've ever experienced. Click-BAM ready.

:mindblown:

It's also stupid thin. Screen is a little small IMO but usable because it's tall. Real estate on the screen isn't a hell of a lot less than my current laptop.
Yeah, most technology nowadays is "outdated" 6 months after it's released because all the competition. You will be a snobby man now, expecting only the fastest internet speeds so there is no buffering on bicycle websites, DFD, and pornhub :lolol:
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razr390 wrote: Sat Jun 09, 2018 11:49 pm
Johnny_P wrote: Sat Jun 09, 2018 11:47 pm

My not-shitty-spec MBP feels like a snail compared to this thing. It brought up a usable web browser faster than any computer I've ever experienced. Click-BAM ready.

:mindblown:

It's also stupid thin. Screen is a little small IMO but usable because it's tall. Real estate on the screen isn't a hell of a lot less than my current laptop.
Yeah, most technology nowadays is "outdated" 6 months after it's released because all the competition. You will be a snobby man now, expecting only the fastest internet speeds so there is no buffering on bicycle websites, DFD, and pornhub :lolol:
:dat:

porn-optimized laptop :notbad:

But not only compared to my computer. Way faster than the Macbook Pros they had, and the MS Surface laptops. It was legit :impressive:
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Johnny_P wrote: Sat Jun 09, 2018 11:49 pm
razr390 wrote: Sat Jun 09, 2018 11:49 pm

Yeah, most technology nowadays is "outdated" 6 months after it's released because all the competition. You will be a snobby man now, expecting only the fastest internet speeds so there is no buffering on bicycle websites, DFD, and pornhub :lolol:
:dat:

porn-optimized laptop :notbad:

But not only compared to my computer. Way faster than the Macbook Pros they had, and the MS Surface laptops. It was legit :impressive:
Meanwhile, I was at Apple today with GF and spec'd out an iMac Pro for shits and giggles. Top spec comes in at $14,000 before tax.

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Johnny_P wrote: Sat Jun 09, 2018 11:37 pm Gonna pick up a pixelbook tomorrow. Checked it out at WorstBuy. Thing is fucking :fullretard: fast. :plaid:

128 gig should be enough for me. I like the tablet ability. Keyboard is better than the recent macs.
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Side note this seems to be a solid alternative to the $100 pen from google
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01AZ ... UTF8&psc=1
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dtraill27 wrote: Sun Jun 10, 2018 11:38 am Side note this seems to be a solid alternative to the $100 pen from google
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01AZ ... UTF8&psc=1
Bought the fake laptop. Might need this to go with it.
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Johnny_P wrote: Sun Jun 10, 2018 2:46 pm
dtraill27 wrote: Sun Jun 10, 2018 11:38 am Side note this seems to be a solid alternative to the $100 pen from google
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01AZ ... UTF8&psc=1
Bought the fake laptop. Might need this to go with it.
Gooood gooood let the :troywax: flow through you.
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razr390 wrote: Sun Jun 10, 2018 4:08 pm
Johnny_P wrote: Sun Jun 10, 2018 2:46 pm

Bought the fake laptop. Might need this to go with it.
Gooood gooood let the :troywax: flow through you.
OH YEAH. Good lawd this thing is fast. Keyboard is really nice and sturdy, easy to type fast on and makes quiet little clicks. Taller screen is nice, that'll be useful but I wish the screen bezel was smaller for more pixels. Resolution is lowish but whatever I don't mind much.

Gotta figure out how to load my music and pics onto here. Not sure.
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Johnny_P wrote: Sun Jun 10, 2018 4:30 pm
razr390 wrote: Sun Jun 10, 2018 4:08 pm
Gooood gooood let the :troywax: flow through you.
OH YEAH. Good lawd this thing is fast. Keyboard is really nice and sturdy, easy to type fast on and makes quiet little clicks. Taller screen is nice, that'll be useful but I wish the screen bezel was smaller for more pixels. Resolution is lowish but whatever I don't mind much.

Gotta figure out how to load my music and pics onto here. Not sure.
I hear www.meatspin.fr has tools to help you do that.
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razr390 wrote: Sun Jun 10, 2018 4:35 pm
Johnny_P wrote: Sun Jun 10, 2018 4:30 pm

OH YEAH. Good lawd this thing is fast. Keyboard is really nice and sturdy, easy to type fast on and makes quiet little clicks. Taller screen is nice, that'll be useful but I wish the screen bezel was smaller for more pixels. Resolution is lowish but whatever I don't mind much.

Gotta figure out how to load my music and pics onto here. Not sure.
I hear www.meatspin.fr has tools to help you do that.
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I need to buy a pixelbook
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Detroit wrote: Sun Jun 10, 2018 5:22 pm I need to buy a pixelbook
The asus I linked earlier does the same shit for half the price. :iono:
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troyguitar wrote: Sun Jun 10, 2018 6:30 pm
Detroit wrote: Sun Jun 10, 2018 5:22 pm I need to buy a pixelbook
The asus I linked earlier does the same shit for half the price. :iono:
Which one was $375 with 128gb storage?
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They have a microsd slot, so adding storage if necessary is simple and cheap. The prices vary but $400 is easily possible if you shop around. Maybe it's slightly more than half the price of the Google branded one, but still way cheaper.
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Oh: FWIW the Google engineer that I know uses that $750 pixelbook as his only computer for both work and home stuff. :whocares:
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From what I could tell this one has a faster processor with more RAM and more storage. :iono: Hoping that helps future proof it to some extent.

I do kind of wish it had an SD card slot for more storage. But oh well.
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My MBP has lasted 7 years and still works well. I could have bought another computer for a few hundred less back then, but would it have lasted 7+ years?

:notsure:

Sometimes I think there is something to "you get what you pay for" in terms of tech.
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Detroit wrote: Sun Jun 10, 2018 9:16 pm My MBP has lasted 7 years and still works well. I could have bought another computer for a few hundred less back then, but would it have lasted 7+ years?

:notsure:

Sometimes I think there is something to "you get what you pay for" in terms of tech.
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JP, how's the Pixelbook so far? Still good? Pretty sure I'm going to pick one up before the sale ends on Monday.
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Detroit wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:28 am JP, how's the Pixelbook so far? Still good? Pretty sure I'm going to pick one up before the sale ends on Monday.
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Detroit wrote: Thu Jun 14, 2018 10:28 am JP, how's the Pixelbook so far? Still good? Pretty sure I'm going to pick one up before the sale ends on Monday.
Good and bad

First, it's fast as hell. Wakes literally instantly just like a phone. The light OS keeps all the processing power available for whatever app you're using.

Keyboard is a strong point, very easy to type quickly on. Better than the new macbooks.

Screen is crystal clear and just as good as the macbooks I looked at. Resolution is adjustable, so I upped the resolution for some more real estate. It's maybe a bit small for what I wanted but that's all personal preference. Touch screen is fast and responds like a phone. I don't have the :waxer: pen.

It's light. And thin as hell. Easy to carry around. Battery lasts about 6-8 hours? Not sure I haven't tested this out fully. But it was easy to pack this for the week just by throwing it in my backpack, and was super helpful at the hotel. I might not have brought my MBP due to its size and weight.

Bluetooth connection is much stronger than it was on my MBP. Paired to bluetooth speakers very quickly.

The bad.... the OS is certainly neutered compared to Apple and MS. I prefer the apple OS honestly. Some things are simple, some things are unnecessarily hard. Like... file storage is a pain. File transfer is a pain without a USB drive. It uses USB-C so none of my flash drives work on it. Theoretically I can load my music on it but :iono: haven't figured that out yet because file transfer is NGH right now. It's unclear which apps and files work offline too. Navigating that is harder than it should be, because they just assume you'll be connected to the internet regardless on this thing. Also for some reason I can't seem to sync what's on this computer with my Google drive which is :butwhy: Gotta do it manually which is bs because my apple will sync automatically.

Other peculiarities. The search thing searches the web and the computer. You find apps same way as you'd find the weather. Which is confusing because for example spotify has a web site which looks like an app in the search, but the spotify app is a different thing but the icon looks exactly the same. I have 2 spotify icons in my app menu thing and one is a web browser link and the other is a full app and I don't know which is which. Apps for andriods work on this which is nice, but they're small and shaped like a phone screen would be because phone app. You can run them full screen which helps but they're still touch finger based and not ideal for track pad and clicking. They do work though. And the apps down by where the "start" menu is for windows are either links or apps who knows which is which. I wish they'd have the actual applications segregated from the hyperlinks.

Another app oddity. There is no file bar on top of the app window. So if you're multitasking and want to bring up the other app and you click anywhere on it, it's active and will click to whatever that thing is. Gotta alt+tab to switch between apps or you'll inadvertently click something you didn't want to.

I tried to watch movies on this on the airplane. Alaska Air uses a system called GoGo. Web browser to find a movie, a separate app to watch it. So on the flight out I tried it and got an error saying my browser (my version of chrome) is unsupported. Bummer. Watched shit on my phone instead. So coming back I pre-downloaded firefox, which worked in full screen mode to select a movie. YAY! But then I forgot to download the separate GoGo app. It downloaded through Firefox but the computer wouldn't allow it to open the installer because a non-chrome app downloaded it. :facepalm: Tried to download it through the google play store which didn't work on the plane. So.... back to the phone. I guess this is a security feature, which is potentially a great thing, but man that's annoying as shit and you wouldn't have that issue on Mac or Windows OS.

I dunno.

But anyway. For just browsing internet this thing is a freaking champ.
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