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if you re-arrange the letters in 'chromebook' you get 'e-waste'.
Once Google EoL your device (within a year or two lol) it’s as good as paperweight.
A long time ago, I bought an Acer Chromebook off of Groupon for $100. It was surprisingly performant despite being woefully underpowered. The screen wasn’t big but was bright and had a nice resolution. I too was able to get Crostini up and running but hit the limit with certain windowed apps. I’ve been on the hunt for a Chromebook these days but they feel like poor value to me these days. They tend to have bad speake…
But I also am an oldster and hate typing on the phone, so a keyboard is a huge draw for me.
Battery life is like 6 hours (it says 9 but I’ve never tested it). It charges off a USBC port so can even charge (slowly) from car charger. Decent keyboard and pad.
if you re-arrange the letters in 'chromebook' you get 'e-waste'.
Nope, you get: https://new.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=chrome... Broke Mooch Hobo Mocker Comb Hooker Hombre Cook Mr Coke Hobo Mr Book Echo Bro Mock Hoe
It would be nice if there were an open source alternative, but all that the open source community wants to deliver is rip-offs of the Windows XP experience. Chromebook is what desktop Linux was supposed to be, but nobody understood that the browser was the Linux desktop the whole time.
if you re-arrange the letters in 'chromebook' you get 'e-waste'.
This guy isn’t wrong. Chromebooks are overpriced thin clients to Google’s services. Nothing more, nothing less. Once Google EoL your device (within a year or two lol) it’s as good as paperweight.
This is akin to the person that uses their left hand to touch their right ear....
Both MacOS and Windows offer that without all constraints and privacy negligent services from Google/Alphabet.
[disclaimer] I was one of the pre-release beta testers for ChromeOS...
if you re-arrange the letters in 'chromebook' you get 'e-waste'.
ChromeOS, outside of being Googled, is quite capable (crostini is really nice), well secured (minus Google privacy concerns), and generally a nice user experience. You can even run Firefox and avoid browsing with Chrome.
I think what is always lacking in these reviews is: compared to what? I’m always curious to see what other devices authors have used prior to this “best device”. For example, I started with a 2010 MacBook Pro, then a T430 Thinkpad, then a dell, then a desktop computer, then Apple finally fixed the butterfly keyboard so now I use a 2021 MacBook Pro. In my experience nothing comes close to the trackpad of the MacBook.…