Recent content by John Scott3

Should not compare to Macbook's of any kind or even PC's. Both have fully functioning operating systems that do far more then a Chromebook. A Chromebook should be compared to a Nexus 10 or other tablet running a OS that works with a apps store and pretty runs though a ecosystem with cloud...

Bought a Samsung from Amazon refurbished for under $200. Came to me looking like new? Must have been from another unhappy user? I like it enough to keep it but its certainly no revolutionary device. Its gets a bit sluggish loading heavy media on web pages and don't open a lot of tabs. Video in...

The nice thing about Acer is it has a traditional hard drive and a Intel processor rather then the ARM in the Chromebook. The Acer would be much easier to convert over to a full Linux distro or even Windows. Plus the hard drive would provide much more storage space for those operating systems...

I bought a refurbished Chromebook through Amazon and having had a Nexus 7 for a year and also have a 14" Windows laptop. I really just wanted to spend under $200 to see what a Chromebook was all about. I have to agree that the Chromebook is not getting the attention from Google I had hoped. Its...