| disolitude said: Looks like people use "destroys" very losely these days. I don't see any destruction there. The POS netbook has same screen size and resolution, same RAM amount, more battery life, more hard drive space. Chrome book is lighter and has an SSD (tiny) and bluetooth. Whoopie doo! Both of these things are a POS by my standards. But the chromebook comes dressed in a suit and tie. In any case, you don't seem to realize that people like a cohesive ecosystem not one patched with Google services wherever there are holes. Sure you can use a chromebook for browsing and work and possibly many other things that you do on a day to day basis. But why would you? 99% of the people are used to doing it one way on the Windows PC or a Mac. What is the chrome book doing better than those two that should convince the population to drop what they are doing and support Google's baby OS? Other than people who are in love with Google and their services, I don't see any reason to buy the Chromebook. |
You're missing a big difference in the comparison, the OS.
Windows7 on that ASUS makes it run sluggish and crappy.
ChromeOS runs fast and snappy, plus SSD is faster and its size is irrelevant as most or your stuff is in cloud.
You speak of cohesive ecosystem and act like Google's services are not all encompassing?
Yes, people already using all of Google's stuff will like it more right off sure. But the question, why leave Win/Mac, is already answered with people flocking to iPads and other tablets instead of laptops/netbooks. In just the last couple years, tablets have significantly cut into laptop/netbook sales and to a lesser extent desktops. People simply don't need all that in majority of home user scenarios. Now that Android has a real tablet OS post 4.x and the Nexus7, 10 and Note 10.1 are solid alternatives to iPads, that will only continue.
ChromeOS is also growing in features rapidly. Just a few months ago GoogleDocs offline support was read-only. Not you can fully edit. Point is, its rapidly growing and only getting better. Tons of new apps everyday and its going to merge with Android at some point as well.
