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Price would be a handy metric...

I do have RRP on my todo list, but I don't want to list "current retail" prices because they're constantly changing; and the focus is more on helping people filter the list of options than to be a price comparison.

But isn't price one of the main things people choose these on? If I'm looking for a cheap chromebook (as one of the main points of the chromebook seems price), I don't want to see the $1400 Chromebook pixel, or at least (mentally) filter it out.

I don't think there's enough variance in price (Except for the Pixel) that it's a huge factor. My goal was to help people in my shoes, that have some requirements (1080p, 4GB, decent processor) to filter down the available list.

I really don't want to get into being a price comparison site. If I add prices, people will constantly be telling me they're wrong. I want to focus on specs/facts that don't change as much as possible.

You shouldn't have to update it manually. Isn't there a good way to pull the current price from amazon?

There is; but some devices aren't listed on Amazon and the prices can vary a lot. I think trying to show reasonable prices is a can of worms I don't want to open; especially given the little variance between them (ignoring the Pixel).

Seems like price would be the best method of discriminating between them, if all other factors are showing low variance.

I can definitely see the value; and I'm planning on adding RRP; but I don't want to get into price comparison and keeping things updated (or scraping). The goal is definitely to just help you see what fits your criteria and available in your market; then you have a smaller list to compare in reviews etc.

Round the prices so there are categories of prices. At least you can compare withing the same price range then.

I think it'd be tricky, things could be $2 apart and in different "bands". The only real logical bands to me are "Not a Pixel" and "a Pixel"!

I've added RRP, but it's currently unpopulated.

$179 vs $329 is a 1:1.83 price ratio. I think that's significant.

I'm adding RRP that should help with this; but it doesn't need a ton of maintenance work :)

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