Pawn Stars troll Google's Chromebook in latest Microsoft 'Scroogled' ad

Here's a direct hit from the Pawn Stars who refuse to accept a Google Chromebook because, "when you're not connected, it's pretty much a brick." The Scroogled ad goes on to point out that traditional notebooks use applications like Office and iTunes which work even when you're offline. The kicker here is the line, "when you are online, Google tracks what you do so they can sell ads." Ow.

HP introduces new Haswell-powered, colourful Chromebook

HP’s launching a new Chromebook and it’s going to be the first one to be powered by an Intel processor based on the Haswell microarchitecture—which means faster, more powerful machine—and one that’s quite a looker, too. Available in whimsically-named colours (Snow White, Ocean Turquoise, and Coral Peach), the Chromebook is equipped with a 14-inch HD display, 16GB SSD, and connectivity options that include HDMI, USB 2.0 and 3.0, and combination headphone and microphone jack.

Since it’s a Chromebook, you are guaranteed a quick and easy way to connect to your favorite sites and have instant access to Google Chrome apps. You will also be gifted with 100GB free storage on Google Drive for two years. This new laptop is said to be ready for the holiday season with a starting price of US$299.99.

Google announces $1299.00 Chromebook Pixel

Google has created a the ultimate premium Chromebook cloud notebook with an impressive 12.85 inch high-density 2560×1700 screen with 4.3 million pixels, more than a Retina Display. This new Chromebook is powered by an Intel Core i5 processor and a comes with 1 terabyte of free storage on Google Drive for three years. Cost for the WiFi version is $1299 with a $1449 4G-LTE version. Looks like Google just out-Surfaced the Surface. Hit jump for the full spec sheet of this audacious cloud computer.

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SourceCode: Riding the ChromeBook Cloud Part 2

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

A few weeks ago we embarked on a ambitious journey to use Google's browser-OS powered Chromebook as our main computer. With the Chromebook, specifically Samsungs' Series 5 notebook, we would handle our day to day tasks of blogging, writing articles for various print and web publications, use our social media apps, surf the web, watch videos and listen to music in a purely cloud computing environment. This is how we fared.

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