News Lenovo should've used ChromeOS instead of Windows with its latest hybrid device

[AC News]

Lenovo's ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid has an obnoxious name, but besides running Windows, it's the perfect multi-OS device. Now, I just have to hope for a version to be released with ChromeOS.

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[simbonzo]

this might be just a "one-off" release for Lenovo with no other laptop makers following suit.

This is my fear- but I disagree that what it needs is ChromeOS. I'm convinced that this concept- Windows and all- has huge potential. It pains me to say it, but nothing other than MacOS competes with Windows for sheer usefulness for a lot of folk.

I'd like to see the same idea, but a bit smaller, lighter and cheaper.
And I'd like the marketing department of Lenovo to stop taking whatever substance makes them think that the name Thinkbook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid is somehow going to draw people in.

 

[CajunMoses]

This concept will end up in File 13 where it belongs. A few people with money to throw away may choose to throw it away on this camel. The vast majority of device users want something that is seamless and couldn't give a flying flip about being able to switch back and forth between this OS and that one by simply ripping off the display from the keyboard. What a wasteful distraction from reality. ChromeOS is seamless and is getting to be an even more seamless way of running apps from multiple OS platforms. Camels belong in Yemen.

 

[trunestor]

No

 

[taynjack]

The price is a bit out there for many, but seeing that the HP zbook Firefly with similar specs is $2600, but discounted right now to $1229 means anyone who pays that $2,000 price is in government, or is an idiot. I bet the price settles around $1400, and within a year they start popping on the used market for $700-$900. That's where I'll very likely buy one.

 

[FifthElement]

Who wants Chrome? I'm an I.T. tech and no one wants Chrome devices? If it's a cheap device, sure but not for a device like this.

 

[Windroid 2483]

Wouldn't using ChromeOS instead of Windows defeat the purpose? ChromeOS (the versions with Androud app support) has become Android for large tablets and laptops. So, if the computer had Chrome OS and Android instead of Windows and Android, that would amount to having Android and Android.

Using ChromeOS insted of Android on the other hand: That I see a case for! That still preserves the computer's nature as an Android tablet and Windows laptop. It would just use an Android flavor which, arguably, is better suited for a laptop-tablet hybrid.