Oh, I agree with most of what you say. Yes, Apple has free software. I am an Apple proponent. I use many Apple devices with iCloud. Have used MacOS and iOS in many classes of over 30 years. But do you not agree that Google has more robust cloud services? It's not about just using a word processor or presentation software. I use many web-based educational software in my college classes. There are tons of them. So do elementary, middle and HS. I don't know of a single one that partners with iCloud. The majority of them partner with Google to store documents, projects, some really cool stuff. Apple even uses Google Cloud Services (although it is very secure and on Apples terms). At my college (and many others) we use the BlackBoard system for student management, curriculum design, etc... Very professional, powerful, flexible and very secure. It is also terribly expensive. Most universities and colleges use BB but pay in the tens of 1000's of dollars to do so. In Georgia, public schools are dumping BlackBoard and other similar systems and using Google School. It is free. My local rural school system has gone all ChromeOS with Google School Tools. Atlanta districts are doing the same. Their hardware is cheap. Of course there are schools that are still Apple based (and that is good!). But Google has far surpassed them.
Google aren't making the hardware; Acer are "lol"
Hoping for the A10. Would like to see the polucarbonate chassis.
They do design them. Google lets other companies throw in their fugly design. Really a huge difference.
Well, less than 1% of the market is not a lot.
)Within the context of schools (which many people in this thread kept ignoring), 1) the PixelBook is irrelevant, 2) the amount of Windows/MacOS alternative applications doesn’t need to be one-to-one, but are generally sufficient enough, and 3) will lend to ChromeOS tablets being popular as well given the high adoption rates of Chromebooks (and so that 1% figure is also meaningless).Well, less than 1% of the market is not a lot.
And you just mentioned an advantage ChromeOS has for developers but I frankly think ChromeOS developers are a dozen right now.
Let's put it this way: Windows isn't the best for cheap laptops (anti-virus and stuff just take too much resources). Best option is surely some lightweigh Linux distro like Lubuntu but regular people don't want to mess with that and I understand them. So ChromeOS came. But Google didn't really care about it because it wasn't profitable enough, so they just threw it in the market and hoped for people to care... and people didn't. So they made an ultrabook with that OS and reviewers agree it's an unfinished OS for a decently expensive laptop that should compete with good Win and Mac ultrabooks.
Now they want to put this OS, that still doesn't work perfectly for laptops, in a tablet, to compete partially with iOS but mainly with their very own, much better known, much better supported OS.
I frankly thing they'll sell a hundred of these.
(Maybe this will sell a lot and I'll sound like those idiots who thought iPhone was a stupid idea
I supposed it depends upon the definition of "can get along with". Swapping "chromebook" and "ipad" in that bolded statement is probably closer to being true.
Peripherals can be mice, USB thumbdrives/harddrives, wireless receiver dongles, etc. Of course you can dismiss these things as "well, nobody uses them" but that belief is not supported by how chromebooks are used in the classroom (primarily).
