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> The biggest problem I have is I can buy a chromebook with a decent screen for roughly the price of a decent windows laptop Why would anyone choose the former
by roryisok 8y ago
> The biggest problem I have is I can buy a chromebook with a decent screen for roughly the price of a decent windows laptop
Why would anyone choose the former in that situation? I thought the whole argument for chromebooks was that they were going to be cheaper than regular laptops. If you need a decent keyboard, buy a ThinkPad. You're not limited to windows, you can run any flavour of Linux and quite a few of them make a decent hackintosh
- VLM 8y agoIts pretty much the anti smart TV argument, where I have access to much better systems so a halfway attempt merely gets in the way. Also I didn't mention it but its kinda implied that "standard windows laptop" has too little memory to actually work well, a two hour battery, an old fashioned slow spinning disk, and lots of crudware pre-installed and hard to remove, whereas chromebook implies "it just works" seconds out of the box, a ten hour battery and SSD means no moving parts. Also the windows box is inherently insecure. If all either will ever do is rdesktop / ssh into clustered machines, and I'll never do any local processing other than maybe play games on the windows laptop, its no contest that the chromebook experience is better.