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Originally Posted by Sregener
No, really, I do get it. I understand the appeal of a Chromebook. It's a very-limited tablet with a keyboard. For people whose biggest gripe with a tablet is the lack of an attached keyboard and a small screen, the ChromeBook is a great choice. For people who have realized that tablets are saddled with slow processors, limited storage, and poor connectivity to peripherals, a keyboard and larger screen isn't going to fix it.
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I'm assuming you don't really mean this and just intended to insult our intelligence, since we are happily using our Chromebooks.
Right, back to my day's work as an IT project manager running projects currently in the UK, Australia and the US, all five hours of which I have so far today done entirely on ChromeOS.
That has included updating the project plan in Gantter, editing notes and working on issues and task lists in Google Docs and Workflowy, while referring to Office documents in the ChromeOS viewers, editing images, uploading them and updating a website's code, listening to music while I work, and of course emails, calendar updates and meeting requests.
The processor has been more than capable of handling all that smoothly and responsively.
Chromebooks come in various shapes and sizes, including some with large hard drives, and all can be extended with SD cards or via USB, but of course they don't deserve the tag 'limited storage' because the intention is that you hold their data in the cloud. I've used about 1 GB of storage on my Samsung Chromebook since buying it back in February, and all that's on it is temporary and could be wiped if I bother to do it.
The main problems with connectivity to peripherals come with things like older scanners that don't have cloud access and direct network access to shared drives (I can access them but have to go through the local web interface).
Other peripherals like webcams, headsets, keyboards, USB drives and mice work as well as, and occasionally better than, on Windows. Whenever I plug my webcam, headset or USB key into my Windows desktop it insists on loading drivers (which takes ages for the Logitech webcam). When I plug them into my Chromebox they start working immediately.
Graham