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I fully agree on the 3:2 displays and I'm happy to see more of them being used in regular laptops (Apple, do you listen?). While I certainly don't hate Chromeb

I fully agree on the 3:2 displays and I'm happy to see more of them being used in regular laptops (Apple, do you listen?). While I certainly don't hate Chromebooks, it seems that one can either buy inexpensive but underpowered devices (with slow ARM cores or low-end x86 Celerons) or devices on par with other notebooks - the Chromebook Pixel was certainly nice - but then you are not saving money compared to a regular notebook, even though the Windows (or macOS) tax doesn't apply. The Chromebook security concept seems to be well implemented and can protect the user from a lot of typical problems. I'm still curious how much data Google collects from Chromebook users, though. Resolution scaling is one of the most underappreciated technologies. My eyesight isn't really great and I'm using the macOS zoom feature often when I struggle to read text in a small font. It's great to see that ChromeOS implements something similar. The trend of having to do everything on the web today (or using Electron apps) is still irritating. Contrary to expectations, this seems to result in more proprietary protocols (Slack, zoom, Teams, ...) instead of using open source or proprietary clients for open protocols. Well, this is probably yet another approach of solving a problem in CS by adding another level of abstraction ;-).

DennisAleynikov 5y ago
I'm using a Lenovo Duet ($170 on amazon right now) which is a mediatek powered arm tablet. it came with a keyboard and a stand that pair with it perfectly and it works like a surface go. I do all of my work on it for over a year now where most things are either run inside of the linux vm or pinning PWA's to the homescreen. since most desktop apps are made cross platform through having a web version and having full chrome extensions makes me easily leave behind any "native apps" the concept of saving a lot of money, having 20hr+ battery life and no way to brick the computer (unless I really try) is kind of incredible, especially since this came out way before my patience ran out for the m1 macbooks. I can still imagine someone wanting a premium chromeos experience since just having a logged in session of chrome is super powerful in being able to store your internet knowledge through bookmarks and history. While the trend of ignoring native apps accelerates it seems foolish to use something like windows these days and running it in chromeOS mode where accessing information or connected chat apps like slack might as well not be electron apps and be PWA's not running their own browser instance :/
II2II 5y ago
One of the pitfalls with the security model of Chromebooks is the end-of-life of their products. In one respect, it is great that Google is up-front about the duration of support. On the other hand, the only way to get security updates after that point in time is to replace the operating system.

DennisAleynikov 5y ago

I'm using a Lenovo Duet ($170 on amazon right now) which is a mediatek powered arm tablet. it came with a keyboard and a stand that pair with it perfectly and it works like a surface go. I do all of my work on it for over a year now where most things are either run inside of the linux vm or pinning PWA's to the homescreen. since most desktop apps are made cross platform through having a web version and having full chrome extensions makes me easily leave behind any "native apps" the concept of saving a lot of money, having 20hr+ battery life and no way to brick the computer (unless I really try) is kind of incredible, especially since this came out way before my patience ran out for the m1 macbooks. I can still imagine someone wanting a premium chromeos experience since just having a logged in session of chrome is super powerful in being able to store your internet knowledge through bookmarks and history. While the trend of ignoring native apps accelerates it seems foolish to use something like windows these days and running it in chromeOS mode where accessing information or connected chat apps like slack might as well not be electron apps and be PWA's not running their own browser instance :/

II2II 5y ago

One of the pitfalls with the security model of Chromebooks is the end-of-life of their products. In one respect, it is great that Google is up-front about the duration of support. On the other hand, the only way to get security updates after that point in time is to replace the operating system.