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Chromebooks are amazing for business, in my experience. - Collaborating on shared documents in Google Docs is awesome. - Walk up to a Chromebook that's plugge

Chromebooks are amazing for business, in my experience. - Collaborating on shared documents in Google Docs is awesome. - Walk up to a Chromebook that's plugged in to the projector, sign in, and show my Presentation. - Hangouts for video conferences. - Chrome Remote Desktop to log in to my desktop when I want to do heavy lifting. - Two-factor Authentication to protect everything.

kijin 13y ago
Yes, those are awesome features, and they might be able to cover 90% of a typical business's use cases. Similarly, lots of open-source alternatives to MS Office, Photoshop, etc. can cover 90% of a typical business's use cases. But the missing 10% is enough to prevent their use in mission-critical tasks, because one unsupported Excel macro is enough to turn an entire spreadsheet into garbage, and you're losing money while someone tries to fix a stupid incompatibility. Which option would you prefer? 1) Chrome OS, which allows you to use all the Chrome apps but absolutely no other software, ever. 2) A regular OS (Windows, OSX, Linux, whatever) with Chrome installed on it, which allows you to use both Chrome apps and any other software that you might need from time to time.
- VikingCoder 13y ago
  My whole working life, when Microsoft changes something in Visual Studio, do you know what the only answer has been? Recreate the Project from scratch the new way. Every single time. So, when you switch to a Google Docs way of life, you don't necessarily import your Office documents into it. For things like Spreadsheets, you might have to recreate them, if they use weird features. It's unfortunate. Moving away from Office is hard, no argument. Why should I answer a hypothetical where my Chromebox can use absolutely no other software, ever? It's a ridiculous hypothetical. My Windows box is literally useless to me, if I can't run Visual Studio on it. My Chromebook is a more secure way and faster to Remote Desktop in to my primary computer, than my Windows Laptop is. Chromebook WILL NOT replace my primary computer, for any time in the immediate future - I work on Windows Applications. That's just my life. But if I were a web developer???

kijin 13y ago

Yes, those are awesome features, and they might be able to cover 90% of a typical business's use cases. Similarly, lots of open-source alternatives to MS Office, Photoshop, etc. can cover 90% of a typical business's use cases. But the missing 10% is enough to prevent their use in mission-critical tasks, because one unsupported Excel macro is enough to turn an entire spreadsheet into garbage, and you're losing money while someone tries to fix a stupid incompatibility. Which option would you prefer? 1) Chrome OS, which allows you to use all the Chrome apps but absolutely no other software, ever. 2) A regular OS (Windows, OSX, Linux, whatever) with Chrome installed on it, which allows you to use both Chrome apps and any other software that you might need from time to time.

VikingCoder 13y ago
My whole working life, when Microsoft changes something in Visual Studio, do you know what the only answer has been? Recreate the Project from scratch the new way. Every single time. So, when you switch to a Google Docs way of life, you don't necessarily import your Office documents into it. For things like Spreadsheets, you might have to recreate them, if they use weird features. It's unfortunate. Moving away from Office is hard, no argument. Why should I answer a hypothetical where my Chromebox can use absolutely no other software, ever? It's a ridiculous hypothetical. My Windows box is literally useless to me, if I can't run Visual Studio on it. My Chromebook is a more secure way and faster to Remote Desktop in to my primary computer, than my Windows Laptop is. Chromebook WILL NOT replace my primary computer, for any time in the immediate future - I work on Windows Applications. That's just my life. But if I were a web developer???