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  • p1esk - Saturday, April 22, 2017 - link

    Why would you even mention this garbage? For those who are interested in cheap tablets/laptops check out Chuwi.
  • Alistair - Sunday, April 23, 2017 - link

    Wish there was a manufacturer that would give us a Snapdragon 835 in a chromebook :)
  • MonkeyPaw - Sunday, April 23, 2017 - link

    Give it time. Samsung reportedly bought up the early supply, so I suspect we'll see both Windows Cloud and Chromebook models with the SD835 later in the year.
  • TheinsanegamerN - Monday, April 24, 2017 - link

    have we even seen 820 chromebooks? Samsung just brought out a 820 tablet, a year after the 820 came out.
  • DanNeely - Monday, April 24, 2017 - link

    That's part of Samsung's desire to make android tablets suck by always using last years flagship SOCs on this years "flagship" tablets. I don't know why they do it, and with Google leading the way in making android tablets suck by not writing apps that scale in a way that actually uses the bigger than a phone sized screen it's not like using obsolescent SOCs is needed to accomplish the make it suck objective.
  • zodiacfml - Sunday, April 23, 2017 - link

    It's not we are going to buy them but the news is welcome. I've seen leaked specs of an equivalent Windows 10 with 4GB RAM
  • mxnerd - Sunday, April 23, 2017 - link

    So what is this "Chuwi" garbage brand?
  • Samus - Monday, April 24, 2017 - link

    As sad as it sounds, Chuwi exceeds Lenovo in overall value and quality, that is until you reach a real Thinkpad like a T or X2xx series. And at that point, you are better off with an Elitebook from HP.

    I've been really surprised with my Chiwi Hi8 tablet. The support is exceptionally good. It gets regular firmware/BIOS updates and there are listed drivers for dual booting Android and even Android district updates.
  • Visual - Monday, April 24, 2017 - link

    It is not just Chuwi, but several other Chinese brands - Cube, Teclast, Onda, Jumper, maybe more.
    All of them have Cherry Trail x5 Atom x86 Windows 10 products that beat this one by performance, double internal storage capacity and FullHD display resolutions and up for similar or lower price. On top of that you get the choice of normal laptops or tablets at about half the weight and with detachable keyboard docks or type-cover and kickstand, some with metal casing, and some actually dual-booting Android or Remix OS along with the Windows 10.
  • pSupaNova - Monday, April 24, 2017 - link

    Seriously guys chromebooks are a better fit for a lot of people than Windows 10 especially as they can now run Android Apps natively.

    Windows can be a nightmare too keep clean especially if you lend it to family members, while with a ChromeBook you don't have to worry.

    I have a few chinese brand tablets they are in a draw while the chromebook flip gets daily use.
  • sligett - Monday, April 24, 2017 - link

    p1esk - If Chuwi doesn't have a Chromebook, I'm not interested.
  • austinsguitar - Sunday, April 23, 2017 - link

    what part of "chromebooks will never have a market" do you not understand google...
  • mitcoes - Sunday, April 23, 2017 - link

    It seems they sell well enough, so well that MS is trying to make a similar product that probably will end as their phone OS as they run awfully with low spec hardware, and any POSIX kernel based OS not.
  • just2btecky - Sunday, April 23, 2017 - link

    LOL_LY, that "... MS is trying to make a similar product...", is...lol:)
  • unrulycow - Sunday, April 23, 2017 - link

    What part of "Chromebooks are outselling Macs" do you not understand austinsguitar?
    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/23...
  • kaidenshi - Sunday, April 23, 2017 - link

    I'm not a fan of Chromebooks other than the Pixel line (and those are outrageously priced but at least they make excellent Linux laptops). However, if you check Amazon and other retailers you'd see that Chromebooks as a whole are outselling Mac laptops nearly two to one. If you consider that the Mac laptop market is a real market, that puts Chromebooks on solid ground.

    Even the education market is preferring Chromebooks to any other kind of laptop, and that's a market that can't be ignored.
  • Meteor2 - Monday, April 24, 2017 - link

    They also make great thin clients, as you can get Citrix Reciever for them. I'm a big fan of VDI; why put a Xeon in a laptop, when you can just log in to one?
  • osxandwindows - Monday, April 24, 2017 - link

    Oh come on,anything under $1000 outsells a macbook.
  • BrokenCrayons - Monday, April 24, 2017 - link

    Alphabet badly needs to collect user information and monetize it. Chromebooks with their natural dependency on access to Google/Alphabet-owned services provide one of the best platforms for end user data collection because local usage is so inherently limited. Alphabet lives and dies on user monetization so they need to push products like these so they can collect activity data, pick it apart, and turn it into income.
  • phoenix_rizzen - Wednesday, April 26, 2017 - link

    Chromebooks have quite the presence in K-12 school districts these days. We have somewhere in the neighbourhood of 3000 currently in our district, with plans to expand that out to around 5000 in the coming years (~14,000 students).

    They have much better management tools than iPads or Android tablets. Are much simpler to administer than Windows laptops. And are the least expensive computing device out there with a workable keyboard and battery life. Especially when you include the "death-by-kid" factor for replacements.
  • Roland00Address - Sunday, April 23, 2017 - link

    So the MediaTek 8173 is the newer chip powering the $99 Amazon Fire TV Box, well currently the Amazon Fire TV Box is $89 and not $99 on amazon's site. This Box originally have a qualcomm SoC but in q4 2015 it was updated to the current Mediatek MT8173 which it still uses. Now the Lenovo Chromebook has 4gb of ram and not 2gbs, has 24gb extra flash storage, a battery, keyboard, and touchscreen but that that is a lot of money for those features, an extra $180.

    And since Lenovo does not have to update the software, but instead Google does via Chrome, they are collecting a lot of profit if they can honestly sell a lot of these units for $279, for individually these units will have good margin on a variable cost wise, but they will need to sell enough of these units to justify this sku due to the fixed costs of design and such. Then again I bet it is not really Lenovo making these but instead it is some form of whitebox ODM.
  • damianrobertjones - Sunday, April 23, 2017 - link

    1366×768
    32Gb storage

    WHy oh why do these lazy oems keep on pushing trash onto customers?
  • DanNeely - Sunday, April 23, 2017 - link

    Because if you offer a slightly better model for $300 most people will buy the cheaper one for $280 instead. (If you ignore both of them to buy something much nicer that costs several times as much your opinion that the cheapest of all possible computers sucks is totally irrelevant to the people buying systems in that price range.)
  • damianrobertjones - Monday, April 24, 2017 - link

    Yet, over the years, people have posted over and over that Windows laptops need to bin 1366x768. No-one seems to be complaining here. Plus I'd rather have windows.
  • DanNeely - Monday, April 24, 2017 - link

    The commentariat rages about bottom of the barrel specs on cheap windows laptops; but again the outsell the nicer models costing several times as much because as long Joe Sixpack thinks its good enough (and his reference point for that is in comparison to a several year old and failing cheapest possible model at the time computer, and thus far lower than your or my good enough threshold); and anything on the market will pass his threshold so it comes down to shopping entirely on price and maybe also screen size/weight as long as they don't add more than a few dollars to the price.
  • TheinsanegamerN - Monday, April 24, 2017 - link

    keep in mind, chromeOS is not dependent on local storage. These tings need an internet connection for most apps to work properly (chromeOS is a glorified browser after all).

    As for 768p, we use thinkpad 11e Chromebooks at work. the screens look fine due to their tiny physical size. As long as lenovo gets decent color and black levels, these will look good.
  • watzupken - Monday, April 24, 2017 - link

    I feel Chromebooks have reached a stage where they are no longer that attractive. The OS is light no doubt, but I feel it is less versatile as compared to the likes of Android or Windows. One can probably get a proper laptop or tablet around the price of the Chromebook.
  • lefizz - Monday, April 24, 2017 - link

    I love the fact android apps will be available soon, I bought my Lenovo N22 chromebook last October with the same promise. Guess what still no playstore, and thats not just on the stable channel, I've used the developer channel, canary channel, everything and no apps.

    I honestly feel the usable life on these ultra cheap portables is about a year, maybe 2 at a push. So I am between a quaver and a half way through its life and no Office. The keyboard is playing up and I cant get support because I bought it from amazon.co.uk but live in Spain. Lenovo UK wont touch it and neither will Lenovo Europe, each saying its each others responsibility. With this level of support I really wish i had bought a Chuwi. No support but at least you factor that into the price when you buy it.
  • MrSpadge - Monday, April 24, 2017 - link

    2 x A72 + 2 x A53 - yay, that's what SoCs like Snapdragon 400 should use, rather than 4 or 8 A53s.
    (I know chrome can spawn many threads - but that doesn't mean they're efficiently speeding things up, whereas for A72 that's obvious)
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