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One USB only !One USB only !Posted Jan 18, 2011 6:12 UTC (Tue) by Alterego (subscriber, #55989)In reply to: The Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the net by jmorris42 Parent article: The Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the net
Only one USB seems broken desing to me.
Impossible to have a mouse and an usb-key simultaneaously. This must be fixed if a large audience is aimed at.
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One USB only ! Posted Jan 18, 2011 6:38 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
what's wrong with using a SD card? you can easily adapt that to a USB interface for other machines.
and on a portable device, having the flash fit internally rather than sticking out to be hit and catch on things seems like a very good idea to me
One USB only ! Posted Jan 18, 2011 7:13 UTC (Tue) by lordsutch (guest, #53) [Link]
Perhaps, but given the existence of cheap, small USB hubs not exactly an insurmountable problem. More to the point, the Cr-48 would seem to be a preliminary design for evaluating the software platform and not a consumer product.
One USB only ! Posted Jan 18, 2011 7:14 UTC (Tue) by dambacher (subscriber, #1710) [Link]
With the philosophy this device is build upon, local storage is not needed, high battery life and low price is wanted, so one usb is ok.
One USB only ! Posted Jan 18, 2011 22:13 UTC (Tue) by daniel (subscriber, #3181) [Link]
"With the philosophy this device is build upon, local storage is not needed, high battery life and low price is wanted, so one usb is ok."
And of course nobody would ever want to print anything or upload photos from their camera to this device while using the mouse at the same time.
One USB only ! Posted Jan 19, 2011 16:53 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Exactly. Where "nobody" means "vanishingly small so there's no need to worry about it."
And even that tiny sliver of people will upgrade their dinosaurs to connect via wifi and bluetooth. A few months ago I bought a hl-2270dw and love it. No need to set up printer sharing and always-on computers.
Don't worry, you won't miss those extra USB ports much.
One USB only ! Posted Jan 19, 2011 16:54 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Arg, that was supposed to say "Brother hl-2270dw laser printer".
One USB only ! Posted Jan 24, 2011 20:21 UTC (Mon) by daniel (subscriber, #3181) [Link]
"vanishingly small so there's no need to worry about it."
The only reason I can think of for vanishingly small number of people wanting to load photos onto their browser-only netpad is, a vanishingly small number of people bought the thing.
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