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I'm curious how much of a boon Chromebooks/low cost laptops were for schools in low-income areas. I can imagine they made quite a significant impact!

• protomyth 10y ago
  I'm in a very low income area and they really haven't changed anything for us since the lack of any local management software for chromebooks has not allowed us to buy them. Netbooks were interesting but they had quite the maintenance problems. I think buying tough books or their equivalent would have been a more cost effective solution.
  • sna1l 10y ago
    Ah interesting, thanks for the perspective. I'm surprised nobody has build any local management software for chromebooks, but maybe Google makes it difficult.
    • 2arrs2ells 10y ago
      Not sure what grandparent means by local management software, but Google's built a cloud device management console (https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/devices/features-management-console.html https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/devices/featu...) and there are 3rd party tools (ex. GoGuardian - who works with my company - https://www.goguardian.com/ https://www.goguardian.com/) that help manage devices.
      • protomyth 10y ago
        I mean something that would allow management and storage locally instead of on Google's cloud. We have some requirements by law. I haven't heard of GoGuardian, thanks for the info.