03-22-2013, 06:04 AM | #31 |
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03-22-2013, 06:41 AM | #33 |
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and indeed you are. What a great discussion. Not 1 mention of haters or other such spiteful terms. Instead a sensible argument on merits, on desires, on experience. I am going to get a chromebook, but I have never been an early adopter. It goes to my main business sense which is supplying very reliable control systems for processes and production. I want the equipment to be shaken out, to be proven. Only if directed to do so despite my cautions, will I put in the very latest, and then a note will be made in the proposal and contract. But in the next 1 to 3 years, I will get a chromebook. It will not replace my company Windows machine. It will not replace several other personal machines that are running well. It will replace a net-book that didn't work out. In time I think that it may replace one or more of the personal Windows machines as I proof out my first test model. As for bicycles and autos, I have both. I also have horses, and for 3 to 4 years I owned first a ultralight craft, and then a 4 seater plane, and it was fun, but I got that out of my system. I have canoes, rubber and other. I have river and ocean kayaks. I have owed power boats, both fishing and recreation for lake, waterways and ocean. I even still have a small sailboat. Some of these types of fun items are very expensive, and I have settled on my wife's horses as my one whimsical and very expensive transportation system. Her argument was very impressive! |
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I have to add that I bought the Chromebook in considerable part out of a sense of whimsy. I expected it to fill a small niche need that I had, and along the way to satisfy my curiousity over this odd addition to our operating system landscape. I've been surprised at how capable its proved to be outside of that niche. Graham |
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Tablets and eReaders put the hurt on PC sales and almost finished off net-books.
Now people are realizing that tablets or eReaders aren't as productive as PCs but that Chromebooks with their keyboards and mouses can be, and are nearly as small as the netbooks. I think that Chromebooks will continue the cannibalization of PCS and stop and then reverse the sales of tablets. Netbooks probably won't go much lower in sales. |
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03-23-2013, 01:28 AM | #42 |
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Your eggs are no more in one basket with cloud storage than they are with local storage - your hard drive can fail. The Chromebook is not a toy. It meets my needs. If it doesn't meet your needs, by all means, feel free not to use it.
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If you have a pressing need that the Chromebook can't handle then it's not for you, but if it does what you need then it's certainly not a toy. As I mentioned above, there have been several days now when I didn't switch on my desktop. The Chromebook was able to handle all my day's work. Quote:
If you're travelling with a Chromebook and lose it you simply buy another one, reconnect to the internet, and carry on. In fact, you can simply wander into an internet café and carry on. This also applies of course if you're out and about without your laptop. In the last three weeks since I switched my workflow to the cloud there have been several times when I've been sitting at a 'foreign' machine and have simply logged back in to Chrome and continued with my work. With regard to your eggs being in one basket, if you don't trust a single cloud solution you can of course keep a local copy. There are also cheap solutions to maintain a live backup either locally or to a different cloud provider. Graham |
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Not even close to being so. I have multiple redundancy backup and with my own hardware no one is trying to hack into my data. So far Google, Apple, Dropbox and Evernote have all been targets. I keep my data under my control.
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The printers are pretty cheap. In fact, most new printers are already cloud Print compatible.
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