{"id":9972,"date":"2012-11-01T11:49:07","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T11:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/a_little_heavy_chrome.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:43:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:43:33","slug":"a-little-heavy-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/a-little-heavy-chrome.html","title":{"rendered":"A Little Heavy Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wEoaw95BLcI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Google has a new heavy metal-based TV&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=wEoaw95BLcI\">commercial<\/a> which has a Halloween undercurrent. The ad touts the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/topics\/articles\/2012\/10\/19\/312679-samsung-chromebook-runs-arm-costs-249.htm\">$249 Samsung-made Chromebook<\/a> as being smaller, better on batteries and good for &ldquo;scaring off viruses.&rdquo; It goes on to discuss its lack of phantom files and crashes. Although the video has had under 100,000 views I can see it going viral and perhaps adding a zero to that number.<\/p>\n<p>What is unclear is how much demand there will be for a cloud-based laptop which seems to ape the look of an Apple computer at a fraction of the price.<br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?height=315&#038;deepLinkEmbedCode=djbTM5NjrYxi7YLxwIDkVRdQB0x7FjhC&#038;embedCode=djbTM5NjrYxi7YLxwIDkVRdQB0x7FjhC&#038;width=560&#038;video_pcode=ppbnY65tdYh_HxFfIkVstq2Iq_oQ\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s worth noting the device has seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2012\/10\/18\/3521492\/google-new-samsung-chromebook-249-monday\">good reviews<\/a> and includes so many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/how-to-get-the-chromebooks-free-goodies-7000006156\/\">free services<\/a> it actually gives you $20 back after you outlay your $249!<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&rsquo;t been paying attention, this is one of the most<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/heavy-metal.jpg\" alt=\"heavy-metal.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" align=\"right\" \/> exciting&nbsp;times I can recall in the hardware wars. Amazon has come on strong with its Kindle Fire HD and is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/technology\/la-fi-tn-amazon-apple-ipad-mini-ad-20121029,0,2025747.story\">blasting<\/a> the iPad Mini &ndash; as being inferior. Then there is Samsung who recently released their 5.5 inch Galaxy Note II which is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/hands-on-galaxy-note-ii-and-yes-size-matters-7000006542\/\">awesome phone\/tablet hybrid<\/a>. Throw in the Galaxy S3 and the new <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/smartphones\/htc-windows-phone-8x\/4505-6452_7-35454632.html?tag=nl.e404&#038;s_cid=e404\">HTC Windows Phone 8X<\/a>&nbsp;and it becomes obvious that innovation is alive and well.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, manufacturers are serious about mobile and are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iEstfISDogs\">fighting fire with fire<\/a>. And if consumers continue to lust after and purchase them as fast as companies can make them, the tech market should see their balance sheets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0fSEjlLQcRY\">back in black<\/a> in no time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has a new heavy metal-based TV&nbsp;commercial which has a Halloween undercurrent. The ad touts the $249 Samsung-made Chromebook as being smaller, better on batteries and good for &ldquo;scaring off viruses.&rdquo; It goes on to discuss its lack of phantom files and crashes. Although the video has had under 100,000 views I can see it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,157,169,158,168,171,159,172,196,163,176,188,198,118,1760,174,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19187,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions\/19187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}