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My kids have both iPads and school issued Chromebooks. They hate the chromebooks, only using them for homework. They call them "CrummyBooks." The build quality
by greedo 9y ago
My kids have both iPads and school issued Chromebooks. They hate the chromebooks, only using them for homework. They call them "CrummyBooks." The build quality is terrible, battery life is terrible, and to my kids, they're locked down way too much (some of this might simply be the wifi restrictions/filtering at school).
Initially our school district planned iPads, but backtracked over cost. We were initially excited for them, so that our kids wouldn't have to carry so many heavy textbooks. But the quality of the textbooks on the Chromebook are terrible. It's as if the publishers simply took galley proofs and dumped them into a pdf.
- Harvey-Specter 9y ago> the quality of the textbooks on the Chromebook are terrible Would you expect the textbooks to be better quality on the iPads vs on the Chromebooks? Why?
- greedo 9y agoNo, I just expected them to be better, more like an ebook than a crappy PDF. If I could move the textbooks to my daughter's iPad I would, but they're licensed and I haven't tried to work around the DRM.
- seba_dos1 9y agoTextbooks that cannot be read on a different device due to DRM? That's some really ugly distopian stuff. Feels so wrong on multiple levels. Back when I was in school, I was getting some of the textbooks second hand from the year older students and selling mine to the younger ones, on a fair organized by the school.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoWhy can't you use the same texts on a laptop as on a tablet? Can't you buy the texts you were using on the iPad?
- mcphage 9y agoIn portrait mode the iPad screen will match the page of a book more closely. With a screen wider than it is tall, you’ll either have the page really zoomed out to read, or only have half the page on screen and have to keep futzing with the scrolling.
- RobertDeNiro 9y agoThe quality can vary immensely. The Chromebook that I have cost me less than 200$, has 10hr battery life and a fairly good display given its price. That being said you have to understand what chromeOS is and isn't.