Comments on: Tech-Friendly: You might buy a Google Chromebook if …

By: Tim White

Tim White — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:53:25 +0000

Chromebooks are however meeting a big need for schools with understaffed IT, who would like access to the greater web resources without the infrastructure and ongoing support demanded by a Microsoft based Technology rollout, or the cost associated with an Apple based rollout.

By: Paul Gorski

Paul Gorski — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 22:16:53 +0000

Jeff,

Also, regarding the link you referenced, the article is correct, some folks don’t like change. But Google has been trying to create the demand for a product not too many people have been asking for. Folks are asking for tablets and large smart phones, and that’s what they are buying. Chromebooks have been available since June 2011 and sales have been dismal. Google essentially wants to create hardware that forces people to use their software and get their work and browsing habits logged by Google’s big ad machine.

Thanks for the comments and the link

Paul Gorski

By: Paul Gorski

Paul Gorski — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:26:47 +0000

To Craig:
Off-line access to apps is limited, and I’m not a fan of Google Docs. Google’s Word compatibility is about the worst of the available on-line word processing apps. Zoho’s apps are much better and offer more solutions. I prefer Firefox for browsing because of the extensions I use for home and work and support of Kerberos authentication. If all you do is word processing and email, maybe a Chromebook, but then I steer you to the Linux OS Xubuntu or Lubuntu (Ubuntu is getting a bit bloated.) More apps, more robust. I don’t consider games or news apps when rating these things, as you can run those on your smartphone. If you have a personal productivity or business app that you use on a Chromebook let me know at paul@paulgorski.com, I might do a follow-up.

To Jeff:
PDFs were supposed to make us a paperless society, it has been about twenty years and that still has not happened. Moving to the cloud as a general rule of thumb might happen if 1) we can get more low-cost broadband access to all parts of the world and 2) security gets beefed up, there a just too many security concerns for corporate types like myself that keep on eye on this technology.

Even Google doesn’t consider it a laptop, as they released it to coincide with the release of Apple’s smaller iPad and Microsoft’s Surface tablet. Google considers the Chromebook an impulse buy, a second or third solution to those that can afford.

I’m not saying the Chromebook doesn’t have its place in the market, but buyer beware.

By: Jeff Yablon

Jeff Yablon — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 17:43:14 +0000

I think you kinda missed the point: http://answerguy.com/2012/11/05/google-chromebook-desktops-browser-business-change/

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:40:10 +0000

I just wanted to point out that you can still use google docs even without wifi nowadays and there are also a load of other apps that you can use offline! Take another look, to be honest, for myself, there is not much I can’t do with the chromebook that I can with a windows laptop when it is offline also!