For some reason Chromebooks are a highly debating and argued about item. You see articles about them growing in market share and in businesses/schools, example 1 and example 2. A local school system here just ordered 250 Toshiba Chromebooks. I too was one in the beginning that saw no use for Chromebooks and said I would never have one, I am getting very very interested. I have been looking through the Chrome extensions and if you need it...there's an extension for that. The Chrome web store has so many more useful things in it than people realize and to be honest the first thing most people do when getting on a computer is fire up the web browser....I do. Now I do have a system that is strictly for VMs/media/gaming that runs Windows and I understand ChromeOS will probably never be a suitable replacement for it. But to do what most people do on a computer it can be done through Chome and it's offered extensions.
My concern is that more and more Chromebooks are coming out but their prices are creeping close to the $500 mark. The price is what made Chromebooks so mainstream I just hope that since they are gaining in marketshare that the price doesn't go up because of that. If Microsoft/OEMs release decent products in the <$300 range than Chromebooks are pretty much done for I think, people know the Windows name much more than the Chromebook.
My questions/items to discuss:
1. Do you use a Chromebook and like it? Is it enough to be your daily device?
2. How is Google Docs for daily use?
3. Do you think they will continue to grow in the business world?
4. In a podcast I watch somebody said Google and business should never be used in the same sentence, is Google bad for businesses?
5. Will future Chromebooks be released in the $200-$250 price range?
6. Can a Chromebook be used for Android app development?
My concern is that more and more Chromebooks are coming out but their prices are creeping close to the $500 mark. The price is what made Chromebooks so mainstream I just hope that since they are gaining in marketshare that the price doesn't go up because of that. If Microsoft/OEMs release decent products in the <$300 range than Chromebooks are pretty much done for I think, people know the Windows name much more than the Chromebook.
My questions/items to discuss:
1. Do you use a Chromebook and like it? Is it enough to be your daily device?
2. How is Google Docs for daily use?
3. Do you think they will continue to grow in the business world?
4. In a podcast I watch somebody said Google and business should never be used in the same sentence, is Google bad for businesses?
5. Will future Chromebooks be released in the $200-$250 price range?
6. Can a Chromebook be used for Android app development?