Chromebooks Now Avilable at Walmart, Staples Too

[exfileme]

Chromebooks are coming to even more stores near you.

Chromebooks Now Avilable at Walmart, Staples Too : Read more

 

[Stimpack]

Haha, why not say "available at Walmart and Staples"?

 

[assasin32]

The market for chromebooks are for people who just want something to get on the internet for email, web browsing, youtube. And to some extent students since they finally put in a limited (but still useful) version of gdocs that you can use offline.

I've used my chromebook when it was offline for awhile in college, works quite well for basic note taking.

The other big draw to people who aren't computer geeks is no bloatware, quick bootups, maintenance free.

With me I wanted a lapotp to take notes on with good battery life, full size keyboard, SSD, still reasonably fast while using encryption. A samsung chromebook did all that for $250, where as a normal laptop to match that would have set me back closer to $400 to match it in the performance/battery life department at the very least.

 

[Nib68]

It's not Windows 8. It should do very well

 

[brandonjclark]

Can the Citrix receiver be installed on these?*

 

[roboq4]

Citrix Receiver works on ChromeOS, however your Citrix Xenapp environment requires Citrix Storefront , Virtual Gateway and at least XenApp 6.5

 

[smokeybravo]

Chromebooks are a sneaky attempt by Google to get you to become further invested in their cloud services. It feels like they're just licensing you one of their hard drives so they can have your information.

 

[assasin32]

Chromebooks are a sneaky attempt by Google to get you to become further invested in their cloud services. It feels like they're just licensing you one of their hard drives so they can have your information.

Well than they succeeded considering I just had a HD than computer failure (not chromebook, main desktop) and all my family photos are safe as I had them backup to their cloud services which I get 100gb for 2yr with purchase of my $250 laptop (the laptop itself was worth every penny and than some, the service is just icing on the cake). I didn't have to worry about if my backups are fully up to date, etc as I have that folder auto sync and my phone auto sync to google drive. So now my only concern is how long that download will be as it will probably take 1-2 days on my network connection. Thats a good trade off in my opinion.

So yes they have my information, and my family photos but to be blunt they already had all the information prior to my chromebook purchase. Now they just have some lovely pictures of my family and dogs to go along with it.

Do I care that companies have my information? Yes. But I like taking the more realistic approach and just making sure that companies don't have any sensitive information they don't need and if I don't think they need any information about me than I just give them false information.

 

[daglesj]

I was pretty sniffy about Chromebooks till I actually tried one. Now I'm hooked. My tablet was my favoured sofa browser and general internet hook up device but since I got the 11" Chromebook I hardly use it. Particularly good device if you are a big forum user/poster. Far quicker to use than a tablet. Just switch on and go. No apps to update, no AV needed, if you screw it up just reset it.

 

[damianrobertjones]

Wow! The posts above just seem like a great big article for Chromebooks! Check out other pages and they're ripping the crap out of these devices.

 

[TRWRacing]

My company is making the transition to Chromebooks and Chrome to move away from anything Microsoft. Use Google Docs and the Cloud for all your data accessible from anywhere.

 

[TRWRacing]

My company is making the transition to Chromebooks and Chrome to move away from anything Microsoft. Use Google Docs and the Cloud for all your data accessible from anywhere.