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toaster1•

And people said the Surface Pro was overpriced.

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HCrikki•

It wasnt impossible to ship before. Regular PC content and sites are still not developped with ultrahigh resolutions in mind.

Also, a cloud-only laptop being this expensive? Sorry but I'll pick a mac long before, and mind you I hate Apple gear.

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ProeliataOP•

I think this is the latest instance of Google betting the bank on everything moving to the cloud (note the 1 TB of cloud storage). They may even be right, long-term, but we're still pretty trained to look at the hardware that your money buys you, not the additional perks/storage in the cloud that the money buys you.

The Verizon LTE version apparently also has a free 100MB/month data allowance for two years, but given what you imply when you sell your users a cloud-only laptop with 1TB of data storage in the cloud, 100MB a month feels like a joke.

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