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The only problem I see is pricing. 12 months is $336, one can buy a full featured laptop for the money. A laptop will work for say 5 years (or more). While 5 ye
by pointillistic 15y ago
The only problem I see is pricing. 12 months is $336, one can buy a full featured laptop for the money. A laptop will work for say 5 years (or more). While 5 years of Chromebook is $1,680. That's top of the line anything plus the unrestricted power and environment.
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- stcredzero 15y agoA laptop will work for say 5 years (or more). Yeah, but for the last two years, it will be a bit too far out of date. With Chromebook, Google would have sent you a new one by then.
- gmazzotti 15y agoYes, but if I want to spend $336 each year on my pc I can replace it annually and not waiting 3 years for a new one. If I want to use the same one for 3 years I can spend $336 insted of $1008!
- regularfry 15y agoAnd how much is your time worth to perform that annual update?
- stcredzero 15y agoI just replaced a 2008 Macbook with a 2010 Macbook Pro. Just took a couple of hours.
- regularfry 15y agoIf you do that every year for $330, I'm impressed.
- badkins 15y agoMaybe in 1998. Computers don't go "out of date" as fast as they used to. I bought my desktop in 2004 and it wasn't top of the line then. What's it got? Dual core 3.2 GHz, 2G RAM, 400 Gig HD. 7 years old and it still comparabe to what I'd get if I bought another one today.
- stcredzero 15y agoThis is why the industry needs stuff like Thunderbolt.