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nanarchy on 26 October 2012
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superchunk said:
nanarchy said:
The comparison is a little silly, if you wanted a laptop then the chromebook is under specced and overpriced even at $249 compared to other laptop options and it does not have tablet cabilitiies. There are better laptops/netbooks in that price range which all can do EVERYTHING a chromebook does but without the limitations. If you were looking at a Surface then one of your alternatives is NOT a chromebook, it would be some of the Asus/HP/Dell Hybrids or some of the android devices coming out, perhaps an ipad or nexus if you don't care about the keyboard.

I think that if you only want tablet... Nexus/iPad are better depending on your taste.

If you want a hybrid, then there are a number of Androids that are better or WinRT if you want specific Windows based apps that are nto avail on Android.

If you want laptop you have a few choices.
1) low-end / netbook ChromeOS for the greater majority of people is perfect and far better than anyother netbook based item.
2) high-end/gaming/strong business use obviously a real laptop or maybe the surface Pro later.

Of course it comes to your personal needs. My comparison in this OP is because I see both as essentially netbook style systems. Base computing and hardware, ChromeOS wins hands down. Price, obviously ChromeOS. Hybrid/tablet, of course RT. But for RTs price, its probably better to just get a laptop.

My only real gripe on RT is its price. If it were $300 or $350 with the keyboard attachment, I'd be sold 100%. But at $500 without a keyboard attachment, that's just crazy to me. For a tablet, Nexus10 will blow RT away and I'm sure they'll copy the keyboard thing as it has a similar connection on the bottom. It will easily be $150 to $200 less and just as featured.

I really don't understand your reasoning

Chromebook fails on all ends of the market. On the low end it lacks the features of similiarly priced items but has ZERO advantages over any of them, It doesn't compete with any of the tablet offerings as it is not a tablet, it doesn't compete with any of the hybrid stuff. I get it that chromebook would work fine for many people, a cardboard box to live in would also work fine for many people, doesn't mean it is something you would ever choose given a choice and at the moment there is choice, chromebook is the worst of all worlds without an advantage of any. The chromebook is the cardboard box of laptops.