Google Announces New Chromebooks Powered by Haswell Chipsets

tubemonkey · 09-11-2013, 04:40 PM

Intel Haswell processors for better battery life, performance

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Google and Intel introduced three new Chromebooks and a Chromebox today, each running Intel's powerful Haswell processors. The announcement came onstage at Wednesday's Intel Developer Forum keynote in San Francisco, as Intel VP Doug Fisher and Sundar Pichai, the head of Google's Android and Chrome divisions, showed off the new hardware. Fisher and Pichai revealed two new laptops from existing Chrome hardware partners, HP and Acer, and a Chromebook from Toshiba, and a Chromebox from Asus. These devices mark Asus and Toshiba's first foray into Chrome OS hardware. Fisher promised battery life improvements of up to 15 percent and performance jumps as high as 50 percent for Haswell Chrome devices over their Atom-based predecessors.

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Jessica Lares · 09-11-2013, 11:59 PM

They come in cute colors. Can't argue about that.

forsooth · 09-12-2013, 04:07 AM

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

Intel Haswell processors for better battery life, performance

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Google and Intel introduced three new Chromebooks and a Chromebox today, each running Intel's powerful Haswell processors. The announcement came onstage at Wednesday's Intel Developer Forum keynote in San Francisco, as Intel VP Doug Fisher and Sundar Pichai, the head of Google's Android and Chrome divisions, showed off the new hardware. Fisher and Pichai revealed two new laptops from existing Chrome hardware partners, HP and Acer, and a Chromebook from Toshiba, and a Chromebox from Asus. These devices mark Asus and Toshiba's first foray into Chrome OS hardware. Fisher promised battery life improvements of up to 15 percent and performance jumps as high as 50 percent for Haswell Chrome devices over their Atom-based predecessors.

Better battery
Better processor

More, Better apps

HP shows some new good specs
Asus?

Kumabjorn · 09-12-2013, 04:14 AM

The HP seems kind of heavy considering it's a Chromebook without HDD.

tubemonkey · 09-12-2013, 04:35 AM

I'm interested in the Asus Chromebox. Waiting for specs.

HansTWN · 09-12-2013, 04:53 AM

My Windows PC with a Haswell processor easily lasts 8-9 hours, so these definitely are a big deal for mobile devices. Probably doubled the battery life over the old version.

tubemonkey · 09-12-2013, 05:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn

The HP seems kind of heavy considering it's a Chromebook without HDD.

The deal breaker on the HP for me is the white bezel and keyboard. I hate white; and no matter how good the specs on a device are, white will kill it instantly.

Brianrh · 09-12-2013, 07:57 AM

I haven't seen any prices mentioned as yet but I fear this may be the killer for those looking for a cheapish cloud based alternative to netbooks.

frahse · 09-12-2013, 09:48 AM

Well I may join my wife as a Chromebook user for "personal use" if the new hardware meets my expectations.

Toshiba is in the mix now also.

I want a guaranteed 8 plus hours from the battery. (Not considering Video.) 10 would be better. I envy the Mac Air user the battery life he gets.
An excellent screen but it doesn't have to be retina or IPS.
A small HHD but perhaps also a quick small SSD. (What would be really great would be being able to just choose to run on the SSD alone for some uses, with no fan, minimum heat, faster, and extended battery life.

My biggest quandary is choosing between an 11.6" or a 14" screen.
The 12.1" the old Samsung Series 5 had would be ideal, but I haven't seen that option lately.

And finally the DRIVING FORCE for my wanting to make a switch, at least in my personal life, is the ability to tell Microsoft "get lost."

frahse · 09-12-2013, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn

The HP seems kind of heavy considering it's a Chromebook without HDD.

I noticed that. 4#
Maybe it is like the Lenovo one that is designed for school children. (armor plate, and titanium steel frame)

greenasterisk · 09-12-2013, 10:07 AM

I can't wait for the next generation of chips from Intel. The Broadwell ones are said to provide another 30% improvement in power consumption.

Kumabjorn · 09-12-2013, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by frahse

I noticed that. 4#
Maybe it is like the Lenovo one that is designed for school children. (armor plate, and titanium steel frame)

Could be, but it looks more like plastic to me. More than 4# is more like a 17.6" giant laptop than an easy to carry netbook. I have a hard time predicting success for this device, but it might be that the colors carry the day.

Prestidigitweeze · 09-13-2013, 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by tubemonkey

The deal breaker on the HP for me is the white bezel and keyboard. I hate white; and no matter how good the specs on a device are, white will kill it instantly.

I used to feel that way myself until three months ago, when my Galaxy S died and I was in the middle of moving to a different city. When I called Sprint from my office, they refused to repair or replace my previous phone, but guaranteed I could pick up a black Galaxy S4 at a specific Sprint store.

I arrived at the store and was told they'd just sold the last black model. So much for my relationship with Sprint.

Immediately, I checked every other provider and found that the best deal on an S4 and monthly service was with MetroPCS (which currently uses the T-Mobile network as well as their own, but only for that white S4). Since the only model they carried/supported was white, I sucked it up (as it were) and bought one off-contract for a hundred dollars less than I'd have paid anywhere else.

Whereupon I returned to my new (and predominantly white) digs, where I was informed by my painter girlfriend that white was a terrific color and just as neutral as black. I bought a Spiga Neo-Hybrid case in white and black at her urging and now know exactly what she means.

I'd still choose black over white in most cases, but, when paired with the correct design and texture, white no longer reminds me of dentists, hospitals, doilies and sanitary napkins.

frahse · 09-13-2013, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn

Could be, but it looks more like plastic to me. More than 4# is more like a 17.6" giant laptop than an easy to carry netbook. I have a hard time predicting success for this device, but it might be that the colors carry the day.

One of my sons swears by 17" laptops. He uses HP.though we have talked about others. (Not that many 17" these days.)
I don't know if they have 19" ones or larger ones these days or not.
Anyway, he puts a lot of stuff on the screen for his work, and wants it all up there at once for cross referencing and cut and paste. I have suggested he put more memory into the current machine but he hasn't seemed to need that yet.

I find it wonderful to watch my kids at work with all the new tools that we parents didn't even dream of when we were their age.

tubemonkey · 09-13-2013, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by frahse

I find it wonderful to watch my kids at work with all the new tools that we parents didn't even dream of when we were their age.

Back in the day, this was my high tech gadget

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