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Could this be Google's slick new touchscreen Chromebook?
If what purports to be a leaked video turns out to be legit, Google may be planning to shake up the PC hardware market by releasing a new, upscale Chromebook featuring a high-resolution touchscreen display. Rumors of a touchscreen Chromebook have been floating around since last year, but the only sources have been Chinese …
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Thursday 7th February 2013 11:34 GMT jason 7
Re: Subsidies?
Once people get to know more about ChromeOS yes there will be a market for it.
I've had one for a week and already four of the people I've shown it to have bought one. These are ordinary folks and small business people that really do 90% of their computing in the web with a bit of word processing and the odd spreadsheet.
Normal folks just want something quick and simple to use. ChromeOS does just that. No real need for IT support either. That's the big worry for a lot of people here. If ChromeOS goes big a lot of people will be surplus to requirements.
Google just needs to start pushing it. It has a mighty marketing arm and so far I think it's just been doing an extended beta test.
The computing experience for the masses is about to arrive.
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Thursday 7th February 2013 13:49 GMT John H Woods
To be really pedantic ...
... its is not an exception to the rule. "Its" doesn't have an apostrophe for the same reason that "yours", "hers" and "ours" don't: they are possessive pronouns. The easy way to remember this is to remember how you would spell "his" -- an apostrophe would obviously be incorrect.
An even easier rule is to never to put an apostrophe in unless you are absolutely sure one is required - its quite possible to pass off an unintended omission as a stylistic choice, whereas the spurious apostrophe cannot be so justified.
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Friday 8th February 2013 12:54 GMT ed2020
Re: To be really pedantic ...
Indeed it does evolve. We just haven't reached the point where not using apostrophes is seen as acceptable by most people with a reasonable grasp of English... regardless of whether some "language experts" are debating it.
Incorrect use of apostrophes can fundamentally change the meaning of a sentence. I don't see this as being anally retentive.
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Friday 8th February 2013 14:14 GMT Lusty
Re: To be really pedantic ...
"Incorrect use of apostrophes can fundamentally change the meaning of a sentence. I don't see this as being anally retentive."
Not to the point that normal people couldn't understand the meaning though, hence why it's fine to leave them out most of the time. The only time it's a problem is pedantic people on the internet trying to appear superior.
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Tuesday 12th February 2013 18:10 GMT ed2020
Re: To be really pedantic ...
Leaving out apostrophes all of the time makes the writer appear either lazy or ignorant - either the writer doesn't know how to use them or simply can't be bothered. Feel free to appear that way if you wish; I choose not to... In that sense I suppose I am trying to appear superior.
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Friday 15th February 2013 16:29 GMT Lusty
Re: To be really pedantic ...
There used to be people saying that about semicolons too. The simple fact is that normal people just don't care whether these little marks are there or not because they are able to communicate without them. Just like we all get by fine with the words there their and they're when spoken aloud. If what you're saying is true there would be chaos with people misunderstanding each other all the time.
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Thursday 7th February 2013 11:45 GMT Anonymous Coward
4 million pixels?
Or more likely cutting through the marketing droid lies, erm, "talk", that's 4 million individual display elements then. Specifically the usual 4 individual display elements for each composite pixel that most people know them as. Which is a resolution of 1366×768, giving 1049088 individual composite pixels, and 4196352 individual display elements. A coincidence? Maybe, but very similar to the MegaPixel values found on many cameras.
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Thursday 7th February 2013 14:58 GMT Mark .
"it could potentially ruffle the feathers of its hardware partners in much the same way that Microsoft rankled OEMs by releasing Surface under its own brand."
But is this actually made by Google, or a Google branded device made by a hardware partner, as has been the case with Nexus devices and Chromebooks so far? If the latter, it's no different to before.
(Assuming it isn't just vaporware of course.)