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Linuxratty
March 6th, 2013, 03:06 AM
Now this is interesting.


Google’s Chromebook Pixel is quite versatile after all. Here’s a video look of it running Chrome OS and Linux at the same time, allowing me to use Skype and other third-party apps.


http://gigaom.com/2013/03/05/video-chromebook-pixel-running-chrome-os-and-linux-simultaneously/

smellyman
March 6th, 2013, 04:01 AM
That is pretty cool, but begs the question (imo anyway), why bother with Chrome OS?

Linuxratty
March 6th, 2013, 04:20 AM
That is pretty cool, but begs the question (imo anyway), why bother with Chrome OS?
I was thinking the same thing.

pqwoerituytrueiwoq
March 6th, 2013, 04:31 AM
smellyman/Linuxratty
+1

i had the same issue with the weather apple the had in the video the other dayi bet if he checked top he would see the applet was in a inf. loop eating cpu http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2121993