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Chromebooks - who needs 'em?
« on: September 09, 2012, 01:31:56 pm »
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Re: Chromebooks - who needs 'em?
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2012, 01:39:38 pm »
I never really understood the chromebook :P it's just a laptop...right?
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Re: Chromebooks - who needs 'em?
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2012, 01:43:11 pm »
I guess they're more aimed for people who only want to check their email, go on Facebook and maybe do some word processing and FarmVille-style games wherever they want to provided there's wifi, without the messups and the slowness Windows gives most of the time after 3 months of usage or after a particularly evil child who installed all sorts of weird stuff that causes slowdowns. Not for the average gamer though.
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Re: Chromebooks - who needs 'em?
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2012, 01:51:11 pm »
So it's basically a tablet with a keyboard?
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Re: Chromebooks - who needs 'em?
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2012, 02:06:49 pm »
Quote from: Juju on September 09, 2012, 01:43:11 pm
I guess they're more aimed for people who only want to check their email, go on Facebook and maybe do some word processing and FarmVille-style games wherever they want to provided there's wifi, without the messups and the slowness Windows gives most of the time after 3 months of usage or after a particularly evil child who installed all sorts of weird stuff that causes slowdowns. Not for the average gamer though.

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Re: Chromebooks - who needs 'em?
« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2012, 11:06:40 pm »
It's got kind of a business angle too - Google Apps caters to large businesses, and they can get bulk deals on specialty computers for your business. Think of it as a glorified iPad with a keyboard. And no touchscreen.
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Re: Chromebooks - who needs 'em?
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2012, 12:57:17 am »
Not surprisingly, it is not offered in Canada and various other big countries.
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Re: Chromebooks - who needs 'em?
« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2012, 01:09:10 am »
A quick thing is that it doesn't run android. It runs an extremely lightweight OS, and can pull off really good battery life.

Not to mention the 3 second startup time.
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Re: Chromebooks - who needs 'em?
« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2012, 01:45:55 am »
The OS and interface is quite similar to Google Chrome.
There would be some problems with downloading files from the internet as the internal file system is almost non-existent.
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Re: Chromebooks - who needs 'em?
« Reply #9 on: September 10, 2012, 05:11:23 am »
Quote from: willrandship on September 10, 2012, 01:09:10 am
Not to mention the 3 second startup time.

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Re: Chromebooks - who needs 'em?
« Reply #10 on: September 10, 2012, 08:56:41 am »
The Chromebox looks quite appealing...I might have to get one sometime.
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Re: Chromebooks - who needs 'em?
« Reply #11 on: September 10, 2012, 02:17:40 pm »
I don't really want one, but if I liked laptops I probably would. :P
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Re: Chromebooks - who needs 'em?
« Reply #12 on: September 10, 2012, 06:24:02 pm »
I already know long that they exist :P
Probably just some facebooker needs 'em ^^
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Re: Chromebooks - who needs 'em?
« Reply #13 on: September 10, 2012, 07:47:40 pm »
I rarely, rarely, use Facebook (I moderately despise it), but this still appeals to me. No idea why. Maybe the desktop interface...
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Re: Chromebooks - who needs 'em?
« Reply #14 on: September 10, 2012, 08:06:10 pm »
If it's just a tablet with a keyboard (pretty much :P) I don't see any appeal to any customer...anything super epic about this besides it's 3 sec boot time and battery life?
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