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| ? Called The Tomorrow Children, the game tasks you with rebuilding and repopulating the Earth after a disaster wiped out much of the planet. It also features cooperative online features, so that you can share your rebuilt world with other Runescape players. AlienationHousemarque makes some of the best shooters around — including PS4 launch title Resogun — and the upcoming Alienation looks to continue that trend. The game looks like a yet another twin-stick shooter, but set in a ridiculous and violent sci-fi world. It might not be the most original premise, but it looks like a lot of fun. I’m currently typing on the new Acer C720 Chromebook with Intel’s Core i3 processor. It’s the sixth or seventh Chromebook I’ve used in the past year, Cheap RS Gold each one slightly better than the last.The new C720 is a fine Chromebook (though I’m not convinced it’s really worth its $379 sticker price). It runs the Chrome OS operating system, a much simpler platform than Windows or OS X, and can handle multiple tabs, streaming video, and web-based gaming without much issue. It’s ever-so-slightly quicker at loading webpages thanks to its faster processor, and it can chew through web benchmarks quicker than ever. It’s still got the clacky keyboard, terrible display, tinny speakers, and ugly industrial design of the previous C720, but it’s fine for what most people expect a Chromebook to do.But being the best Chromebook yet doesn’t do much to move the needle in the notebook world. Chromebooks have had success in the education space, but for consumers, they’re still far behind Windows laptops. According to data from industry research group NPD, Chromebooks have grown to 6 percent of consumer market share in the US since 2011. Contrast that to Windows laptops, which still make up 73 percent of the market and Mac laptops, which have grown to 21 percent from 17 percent in the same period. While Chromebooks may work fine as a secondary computer for those with larger and more powerful machines that act as daily workhorses, they still don’t fill the needs of the average consumer looking for a single computer. Based on the data on what people actually buy, it’s apparent that the small size, mobile-first mindset that virtually every Chromebook worth buying encapsulates just doesn’t matter to the average laptop buyer, the one that just wants to buy a simple, single computer for $400 to $600. "Screen size is the no. 1 factor in the entry-level market." "Screen size is the no. 1 factor in the entry-level market," says Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis at NPD. "Most buyers don’t carry [laptops] far from their desks and the three- to four-hour battery life that an entry-level model has is enough for their needs within their home." He notes that a 15-inch laptop strikes the right balance between screen size and portability for the vast majority of consumers, while still being affordable for the mass market. |
may work fine as a secondary
