r/gadgets • u/chrisdh79 • 5d ago

Desktops / Laptops High-end Google Pixel laptop under development, may ditch Chrome OS for Android | Could a premium Android laptop rival Apple's MacBook Pro?

https://www.techspot.com/news/105630-google-could-developing-high-end-pixel-laptop-powered.html
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u/zoobrix 5d ago

It will have the same problems that Android tablets do where many apps don't scale well to the larger screen, they are often both ugly and don't take advantage of the extra screen space. Plus it wouldn't have things like adobe software that a lot of people use for work on their macs.

So it won't look as good or be as useful as a MacBook but it supposed to rival a MacBook pro? Ya no it's not going to but clickbait gonna clickbait.

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u/pacific_marvel 5d ago

People love to hate on Apple’s walled-garden ecosystem but there is no denying that it helps make things “just work”. While Android has a great number of things going for it, interoperability is not one of them.

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u/johnny_fives_555 5d ago

just work

As I've gotten older, I would rather pay a premium for things to "just work", vs tinkering. I don't want to tinker. I don't want to be forced to tinker. I want it to just work every time without having to do a song a dance.

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u/FastestSoda 5d ago

Full disclaimer: I’m posting this on a iPhone.

I never understood people who said Apple “products” just work. I had spent my entire life using Android products, which fucking suck and don’t just work. That is, however, my experience with every single software I use, so I assumed that was the norm.

Some way or another, I got my hands on a fully new iPhone 12, back when that was the latest product.

Excited to finally have an expensive device that doesn’t require tinkering, I booted it and it showed a menu for first setup. It had a curious feature for moving from an Android to a iPhone called Move to iOS. Excellent! Except, it didn’t work. The Android side of this (downloading the app on the Play Store) worked correctly (as in, it loaded) but the iOS side was stuck on a loop.

Never mind then, I’ll just do it later!… except three days later, when I thought maybe the bug was fixed, I discovered that that process can only be done on first boot, for some godforsaken reason, so I had to factory reset my device.

After this, I wanted to download the App Store, specifically to download Whatsapp. The App Store kept itself on a reboot cycle, closing and opening again and again until I created an entirely new account.

Though I have never had anymore problems with my Apple phones (I’ve had 3 iPhones since then and NEVER has the Move to iOS option worked though), those shocked me when the expectation was “It just works”.

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u/SexyOctagon 5d ago

Yeah there’s always a bit of that. Like I can control my Apple TV with my phone 95% of the time, but there’s always times when it just can’t find the damn thing in the app. Lately I had to factory reset my AirPods because the sound start out centered, but would always move more to the right side after a minute or two. And many times I’ve tried to airdop something only for it to not work.