Google has launched a new campaign for Gaming Chromebooks and its worse than Stadia ever could of been.
>all games are streamed
>all models are 650 to 1000 dollars
>they are bulky ugly cheap gaming laptop molds with subpar hardware
>no dedicated graphics card so you cant even game if you install windows after
>16gb of ram for literally nothing
>512gb of storage for nothing
What are they thinking? Streaming can be done on 2 dollar android tablets from aliexpress?!
which streaming service are they advising people to use?
Geforce NOW. Which is goyslop, thanks to them fucking cancelling inhome streaming on their own machines so their goyims are forced to pay for subpar subscription services
Gamestream still work though...for now. And Sunshine already provided an alternative. You can still use Steam Link as well.
uh didn't they just kill these?
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/gaming-chromebooks-with-nvidia-gpus-apparently-killed-with-little-fanfare/
I am still getting ads up the ass for it, Google is paying untold millions to shill this still. These are non nvidia models. They have no GPU.
>Google is paying untold millions to shill this still.
Google runs the ads anon, they're not paying anything.
You could argue they could sell that adspace to someone paying instead, kinda how Amazon could sell all the server space they use for Twitch instead of hemorraging money running it
Whats wrong with you not running a browser with adblock in 2023
Looks really great, but since Ganker is contrarian they'll hate it.
what the fuck is wrong with you
Either a bot or a shill, that's what.
Imagine having a fucking laptop that requires internet to play anything and is a glorified monitor to watch Twitch streams .
It immediately defeats the whole purpose of a mobile computer and a PC in general.
Have you looked at gaming the past 10 years? Every damn game either requires internet connectivity or might as well unless you want to play with bots all day.
>Every damn game
Sorry, the fun I have from single-player games prevents me from hearing the opinion of terminally online players.
you need to apply for MAID .
>1366x768 144hz
the human eye can only see in 1366x768 sir
>when I got a laptop in 2004 with a 1920x1200 resolution and played all the games I wanted on some shitty amd chipset
>What are they thinking?
It's an excuse to implement their full scale chrome DRM version
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity
Now everything makes more sense
Kek
Fuck me, I can't believe we're still going with 1366x786. I thought now that 1080p laptops are so common they're basically the standard or lower end, we'd stop seeing 1366x786
Fucking hell.
The reason Google et al. is so fucking committed to the "you will own nothing" meme is because you moron made thieves have to ruin it for everyone else by pirating everything. Big business has no choice but to force this nightmare on us. They will not stop. Ever. They WILL make this our reality if its the last thing they ever do.
>you moron made thieves have to ruin it for everyone else by pirating everything
Because you morons can potentially do pic related is why pirates are necessary. Gee, it would be nice if some dumb goy had the backup. Seen this many times in vidyagaem industry btw, dumb japs lose the source code so all they could do was port an emulated hack on some bozo's emulator and call it a remaster.
>potentially
The holocaust of the internet content is pretty real.
Big Media loves to memoryhole the old videos for example.
>pic
Honestly, I breathed a sigh of relief.
Capeshit deserves to be lost.
>e you moron made thieves have to ruin it for everyone else by pirating everything
This isn't about piracy, pirates aren't magically going to become paying customers.
This is all about extracting as much money as possible from people who do pay because growth cannot be sustained traditionally which is through an expanding customer base from population growth.
They are trying to get regular people to foot the bill for the meme of infinite growth and they are doing it anyway they can. Don't want to buy the new rehash because your satisfied with the older version? They'll just yank it entirely and you can't do a thing because you don't have access to the game files.
>you made us do this!
>our multibillion dollar search engine corporation has no choice!
>the garden gnome cries out as he strikes you
No one pirates games anymore except Slavs (who have no money) and pirautists (who would not pay money for the game in the first place).
The cost of buying a game is so comparatively low that normies will overwhelmingly buy them just to avoid the hassle of dealing with pirated games.
pirating games still is being done even by consumers as DRM and the bullshit of mandatory windows upgrades looms over. Until steam becomes completely drmless, pirates are gonna keep piriting
pirautists
No I mean I actually buy discs to watch my movies.
If I can't play it when the internet goes out I'm not buying it.
t. Buys DVDs and Blu-rays for kino
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>SHITTY RAP MUSIC FROM A SOUNDCLOUD RAPPER FROM 2009
>could of
Ah, the retarded EFL
To be honest, the most retarded opinions that I have seen on this site were made by FSLs.
It might have something with the fact that shills and bots usually try to mimic a middle-class American.
>FSL
EFL, doesn't matter.
Normalfags fall for it, just slap the word gaming in front of your product and you'll be price gouging someone's mom/grandma when they hear their (grand) kids want a "gaming laptop" for their birthday or Christmas.
who cares? streaming is gamings future. this is just a foothold over the threshold
Can I play Genshin Impact on it? Can I play Honkai Star Rail on it? If no to both, it's not a fucking gaming laptop, now is it?
The only thing I agree with is price. Nothing else is important.
>all games are streamed
No shit, it’s gentoo based laptop. They probably intend to switch to arm too.
>they are bulky ugly cheap gaming laptop molds with subpar hardware
Good specs, slim, good price. You have two options, that’s the world of gaming laptops
>no dedicated graphics card so you cant even game if you install windows after
Why would you even think of install windows on one of these things?
>16gb of ram for literally nothing
>512gb of storage for nothing
Are you old enough to post? You sound like a dorm freshman who has no knowledge of consumer electronics and his mom just bought him a gayming chinktop for college unwittingly.
good price? excuse me gay? There is no dedicated gpu, I can find you laptops for 650 to 750 that have a nvidia or amd gpu in them that can outclass any apu on the market today. I purchased an i5 and 1650 laptop for 400 with higher specs than this laptop in 2020 for NEW. Are you really shilling here asus?
>could of
>>all models are 650 to 1000 dollars
lmao why even bother? you can find competent gaming laptops for 800-1000 dollars already
I had this idea when I found out laptops could stream desktops, just use shitty specs and call it a gaming laptop but use hardware good enough to stream.
I'm sure alot of people thought of it too.
>>16gb of ram for literally nothing
that's the modern minimum for multiple simulaneous tasks, it might make a good laptop for boomers, but 650 is pretty steep.
At least it's an actual i5 and not some crappy Celeron or pentium.
You could play minecraft on that igpu
all you need is a 2 thread celeron, chuddy
for web browsing, yes.
for any kind of "gaming" then its not enough.
you vil play vijeogame in ze cloud und you vil be happy
No, I require at least an i5 to oppress and terrorise minorities and women.
Stadia was actually good though.
you WILL consoom
you WILL let us eat your RAM
you WILL use our bloated web browser for everything
you WILL let us watch every activity through cloud computing
you WILL rely on our Chrome API policies
you WILL let us moderate and delete your synced bookmarks
you WILL tolerate more mobile-like desktop devices
you WILL enable ads and trackers
you WILL send all info to Google servers
16GB is not enough BTW
>650 to 1000 dollars
as long as it has topnotch 40xx nvidia binned cards then it's worth it.
other than that it's kinda cringe if it has "embedded RAM / storage" which makes it a complete brick once they fail
If I'm going to pay $650 to $1000 to stream games, why tf wouldn't I just buy an actual gaming laptop and run them locally?
Google back at it with the billion dollar ideas.
Do not trust Google hardware
For $1000 any you can get a decent laptop with a reasonably powerful dgpu. Even $800 will buy something that plays almost everything at 1080p60.
no you can't, and laptops with discrete gpus are a meme anyway, there is not enough power or heat dissipation to run a discrete gpu effectively in a laptop
Yes, you can. For $1000 you can get a laptop with a 3070. For $800 a 3060. Both with a 6 core Zen 3. That's plenty. Maybe not as fast as desktop parts but good enough, especially for the price.
dont respond to retards man, they are legit brain dead
>650+ for something without integrated graphics
bro what? You can easily get something with low end integrated graphics at that price.
well then, you are a fucking retard if you buy them obviously
>gaming on a laptop
lol
>he doesn't game in his bed
Jesus they REALLY don't want people to own GPUs at all. Only in the hands of corporations. Why is that?
>anon makes up bullshit as usual
the cheapest model is $429. they are literally called "cloud gaming chromebooks", why would you expect a discrete gpu? if you don't need 16gb of ram and 512gb storage then maybe buy a cheaper model? what are you even complaining about?
I love how Google gays come to Ganker to shitpost their latest products. Listen gay, this is the current listings on amazon and are the msrp prices for these cloud notebooks. You wanna cherrypick some random model and call it gold doesnt make you look smart
all i did was google the thing, went to https://www.google.com/chromebook/discover/gaming/ and looked at the models listed. the ideapad one is $429.
look, i don't give a fuck about chromebooks, i think you would have to be braindead to use one of these voluntarily, but that doesn't excuse deliberately spreading misinformation like what you are doing here.
Oh yes, it’s misinformation when asus and acer are selling these msrp on amazon for 650-750 you absolutely fucking retarded gay. Go guzzle cum and die
misinformation is when you say that the cheapest model is $650 when there is one listed for $429. go fuck yourself, you are dishonest piece of shit.
You are a fucking moron loving retard, I hope you slit your throat. Take your ideapad and shove it
>all games are streamed
>no dedicated graphics card
You will own nothing and be happy
>could of
Learn English you dumb fuck