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Samsung Chromebox (google.com)
4 points by pajju on July 24, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



This has been available for over a year. The old version had the exact same specs as far as I can tell. http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-XE300M22-A01US-Series-3-Chrome...

The hardware specs aren't very impressive at all, except the DisplayPorts.

They should at least offer a black version.

Don't get me wrong, I considered purchasing one of these a few months ago and attaching two monitors, but it's difficult to set up a good dev environment using only web services.

IMO, this is for people to get their computer illiterate family members, maybe schools, and maybe businesses if employees can get by using only web apps. (I guess that's a big market)

Google should really try to create a cheaper, more powerful, and better looking version of this. There really are a lot of people who would be interested in a cheap desktop computer that you can't easily mess up.

Another useful feature would be the ability to lock down ChromeOS a little more. No unapproved apps or extensions without a master password.


329 seems like a lot for this




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