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superchunk on 04 December 2012
BuckStud said:

I'm I the only one that doesn't give a rats a$$ about Google products.  I am amazed at how they've managed to get a loyal following as they aren't great at pretty much anything.  Chromebooks are nothing more than a useless netbook that doens't run crap for programs.

Clearly you haven't used any of Google's products or Chrome and its app store. But, this may just be  troll attempt... so ignore maybe look more into it before you type.



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rocketpig on 05 December 2012
superchunk said:
rocketpig said:
superchunk said:

Personally, I'd go for either a 7" tablet and/or a laptop that has the screens that can turn and fold flat giving you the tablet or laptop experience.

That's kind of my point. A touchscreen Chromebook is the worst of both worlds. It makes far more sense to build a cheap transformer that works as a tablet and then couples to a laptop keyboard. That would actually be functional and it'd be in the Android ecosystem so you'd get a lot more app support for it.

What if the Chromebook has that reversable screen? But yeah, until ChromeOS is merged with Android, its more of a choice if you were going to go with a Windows device but don't want or need that.

If they merged ChromeOS with Android, this would become a much better product overnight.




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superchunk on 05 December 2012
rocketpig said:

If they merged ChromeOS with Android, this would become a much better product overnight.


That is Google's stated long-term goal. Not sure how long that is out, but they said they are moving that way. It only took them a year to merge the two Android branches for phone and tablets into Android 4. Maybe by Android 6 it will all be one OS.



rocketpig on 05 December 2012
superchunk said:
rocketpig said:

If they merged ChromeOS with Android, this would become a much better product overnight.


That is Google's stated long-term goal. Not sure how long that is out, but they said they are moving that way. It only took them a year to merge the two Android branches for phone and tablets into Android 4. Maybe by Android 6 it will all be one OS.

So they're the anti-Microsoft, whose latest motto is "one OS for every device!"




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