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They need to ditch the atom processors. They should be embarrassed that their new hotness flagship product, Google+, is unusably slow on the Chromebooks. Even a
by MatthewPhillips 15y ago
They need to ditch the atom processors. They should be embarrassed that their new hotness flagship product, Google+, is unusably slow on the Chromebooks. Even an individual post, which only contains the header bar and some text, is unusably slow.
- generalk 15y agoI have one of the pilot Chromebooks they were sending out for free a year or so ago. It's not just Google+, it's nearly any of the cool things you'd want to do online. Watching any kind of video is unbearably laggy. Heavy sites like (new) Twitter or (as mentioned) Google+ are completely unusable due to scrolling/typing lag. I get the "release early" mantra but I use my Chromebook for light browsing only. It can't possibly replace a real notebook.
- htilford 15y agoI use Google+ at least 10 times each day on my Chromebook (series 5). It's a touch slow, but hardly unusable. It's the flash slowdowns that bother me occasionally, but even there it's rarely unusable.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoI also have a Series 5. Perhaps our tolerance for lag is simply different. For me scrolling an individual post is completely laggy. I avoid using Google+ for this reason.
- runningdogx 15y agoThe Asus Transformer Prime might be disqualified because it's not chromeos and it doesn't have a built in hardware keyboard, but it's a quad-core tegra tablet running gingerbread and soon ICS (keyboard optional). http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/09/transformer-prime-detailed-10-inch-super-ips-display-12-hour/ http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/09/transformer-prime-detaile... I don't have a chromebook but I'm not sure what chromeos offers that android doesn't.
- icefox 15y agoAnyone know of reviews of someone putting a recent chromebook build on a macbook air or some laptop with decent specs?