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Acer's Chromebook 14 Extends Features And Battery Life To 14 Hours

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I think chromebook is dead or dying. With microsoft switching it's money making model and making windows 10 very low cost for OEM's, I'd rather spend $300 on a windows 10 laptop with less battery life.
 
I`m running a Asus Transformer T100TAF, it has an Atom BayTrail CPU and only 2 GB of RAM but Win 10 is extremely snappy on it. 32 GB storage + 64 GB micro SD and a 500 GB HDD in the detachable keyboard. I get a max of 11 -12 hours of battery and enjoy a full OS, better than the Chrome OS.

PS: Edge is amazing on the Atom CPU, can`t say the same for Opera or Chrome that run slow.

And the strange thing is that now i`m missing the touch ability on my desktop, there are things that i find better to do with touch that with keyboard or mouse.



Yeah, it`s free because MS wants faster addoption of the OS since it boast a new Store, Universal apps, better touch integration for 2 in 1 devices, and less viruses in the future since there is highly unlikely that one will slip trough the store.

Win devices are plagued by viruses due to people having to install stuff from all over the place. And stop with the "spy" crap, nobody sits to go trough TB of data from each user to see their porn habbits. The most paranoic stuff that i`ve heard was that MS is copying your drives to theirs ... have 200+ million users and take from each 1 TB of data .. imagine that ... some people are just nuts.
 
I think chromebook is dead or dying. With microsoft switching it's money making model and making windows 10 very low cost for OEM's, I'd rather spend $300 on a windows 10 laptop with less battery life.
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Horses for courses. If all you need is a way to get your grandmother on e-mail, then this is fine.
 


It's just too niche of a product, which is why i think it's dying. It used to have value in that it was cheaper than a windows PC. But because microsoft is no longer charging for windows 10, any price difference between chromebook and windows is negligible. Microsoft took great strides to make windows more efficient, and now it runs well even in 10 year old computers.

I just don't see the point of chromebook anymore. You can just take your grandmothers laptop and delete all the icons on the desktop, and just leave chrome on there. Then tell her to just double click on it.
 


maybe for you.
 
And don`t forget we also have now compute sticks that you can put to any TV and have a PC experience right on your TV, this for people that don`t need powerful PCs or laptops.
 

It's just too niche of a product, which is why i think it's dying. It used to have value in that it was cheaper than a windows PC. But because microsoft is no longer charging for windows 10, any price difference between chromebook and windows is negligible. Microsoft took great strides to make windows more efficient, and now it runs well even in 10 year old computers.

I just don't see the point of chromebook anymore. You can just take your grandmothers laptop and delete all the icons on the desktop, and just leave chrome on there. Then tell her to just double click on it.
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ChromeOS is much better for simple use cases because it is very light weight, works on different CPU types, and is *virtually* virus proof. I've helped a few of my customers (who get confused and annoyed by full Windows or Mac systems) buy and setup a Chromebook and they love it. Better yet, they don't have to call me to fix it all the time because they clicked the wrong thing or caught a virus. Chromebooks are not about the cost, they're about simplicity.
 
As an IT for education, the Chromebooks are exceedingly perfect for our purposes. Under $200, manageable from one admin account...and I mean ALL of them. We have more than 1000 Chromebooks, and all of them can be configured from the management console. They just work. No ipads...no Windows 10 machines.
 
As an IT for education, the Chromebooks are exceedingly perfect for our purposes. Under $200, manageable from one admin account...and I mean ALL of them. We have more than 1000 Chromebooks, and all of them can be configured from the management console. They just work. No ipads...no Windows 10 machines.
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Im an education IT admin as well and they have literally saved our lives. We would have an 1/8th of the devices had it not been for chromebooks. The whole dead or dying thing is one guys opinion based on no fact. These things were selling so fast in august manufacturers couldn't make the displays fast enough for demand. I heard of one school district in Texas buying 40k at a time. We have 6000 right now for a very rural district and everypenny when can scrap up goes to buying more.
 
As an IT for education, the Chromebooks are exceedingly perfect for our purposes. Under $200, manageable from one admin account...and I mean ALL of them. We have more than 1000 Chromebooks, and all of them can be configured from the management console. They just work. No ipads...no Windows 10 machines.
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Im an education IT admin as well and they have literally saved our lives. We would have an 1/8th of the devices had it not been for chromebooks. The whole dead or dying thing is one guys opinion based on no fact. These things were selling so fast in august manufacturers couldn't make the displays fast enough for demand. I heard of one school district in Texas buying 40k at a time. We have 6000 right now for a very rural district and everypenny when can scrap up goes to buying more.
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Yeah these guys know whats actually up. The majority of users Chromebooks can take care of their use cases with one of these. For those of us that need a little bit more, I will use the chromebook to access all my linux servers via console on my network or simple enable developer mode and change the chrome os to full blown linux and do anything.

Anyone who has used a chromebook will also tell you the battery life is pretty good already and with improvements I could see using this all day without a charge. I would love an all metal chassis and a 1080p screen!
 
I think chromebook is dead or dying. With microsoft switching it's money making model and making windows 10 very low cost for OEM's, I'd rather spend $300 on a windows 10 laptop with less battery life.
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The reason that windows took over the world displacing the technically superior unix was ease of use and ease of maintenance. Windows might need some maintenance but at least I can run software compiled on a newer version of the compiler then my version of the os uses. The ui is also more consistent then the many ui's unix possesses (and command lines). For most of us unix(linux) is just too much like hard work.

Well chrome os does to windows what it did to unix. It's all in the cloud so there's basically no maintenance. I can kill my chromebook, go to the shop, buy another (different model if I like), log in and I see all my stuff and I have lost nothing. I don't have to worry about updates or backup's or viruses. I don't need a geek on call to fix it all the time.

In addition it's more efficient so cheaper as it runs better then windows on cheap hardware, which in turn means less cooling so quieter, smaller case so lighter, etc.

Sure it can't do as much as windows but it's certainly not dying - plenty of people would be happier with a chromebook then a windows laptop.
 
I'm definitely buying this. People don't get what chromebook is about. Try one for a few weeks and you'll be hooked. No more junk, no dumb long time updates or unexpected shutdowns. Built-in SSH. Yes, built in!

I write quite a bit, and do some web development, so this type of device is perfect. I would have bought the Pixel, but they don't sell it to Canadians for some reason. I just wanted a nice screen and an aluminium case. I would buy this, even if it was $600-700, so at $300 it's a no brainer.

Chromebook has nothing to do with price. It's about discarding the junk. Reduce to basic elements.
 
Chromebooks are awesome if you take them at face value. They are simple low cost no maintenance PC's.

These are perfect for the tech illiterate or those who only need email, web browsing, light document work etc.
 
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