www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2220108/Google-Samsung-unveil-229-laptop-everyone.html
Doesn't seem like good value to me, when you can get a 'proper' laptop with 4GB RAM. 320GB HD and Windows 7 for £270 (Compaq Presario on ebuyer, might be cheaper ones elsewhere).
I don't know whether the Google thing has any flash storage - if not, then presumably you can't install any additional apps and you're limited to what you can do in Chrome.
Seems like an unhappy mix of laptop and tablet. Anyone fancy it?
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It's a "Chromebook", so it does have a hard disk which is, as you say, an SSD.
That being said, it is designed to store everything on Google's "cloud" storage and I don't know how easy (or not) it may be to convince it to store data locally.
The reviews so far indicate it's pretty much a doorstop without a network connection. Thus for mobile use (why else did you want a laptop?) you'd actually need the more expensive one with the built in 3G connection.
Like you, I can't see why a cheap laptop is not a better proposition. The more current hardware of the Chromebook makes no odds, as everything it does is limited by the speed of the network connection anyway.
The really interesting bit is that I seem to recall another manufacturer building the browser into the O/S and rendering it nigh-on impossible to get third-party products to run effectively on their machines. I also seem to recall them getting nailed to the cross for doing it, the practice being deemed anti-competitive. One law for them...........?
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Google's driveless 'Laptop for everyone' £229 - TeeCee
