Obviously not. It's a desire for Chromebook (not to be confused with Windows-based PCs) over Mac.
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IDC: Chromebooks Outsold Macs for the First Time in 2020
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You are missing the shift in computer paradigm where everything migrates to Internet. Chromebook captures this paradigm, Macs - not so much.
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Yeah, everyone rushed to buy the cheapest thing they could find to keep going with school or work.
2020 data is a 1 time fluke.
Yeah. I am sure tons of schools are going to run right out now and buy $1,000 notebooks for children of all ages to take home with them. That'll go over just swell.
Chromebooks are just a far better option for home learning, and I estimate we'll see more strong sales for them dotted throughout 2021 as well.
A cheap computer for Googleites in bad financial times seems a logical move for many traveling outside the orchard.
Get the young hooked on the Google drug early and Google will have many years to track and build a large profile, which in turn means a lot of money for Google. I don't like them at all but, they are very cunning.
I really disagree with this. 98%? I think way more than 2% of people want more from their laptop than what a Chromebook can offer.
Maybe not 98% but I would say 90% easily. I look through college campuses and nearly all sorority girls have MacBooks for no reason. They are just surfing the web and writing word documents. There is absolutely no reason to spend $1k on that. Before I could see it because Windows machines were slow to boot and had worse battery life. But Chromebooks have proven that you don't need to upcharge machines due to booting up fast and having good battery life.
Just randomly looked at this Chromebook. For $400 why would you not buy this if you were a sorority chick in school? Literally throwing away money buying a MacBook for over 2x the price.
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Dunno if you’ve used these before, but they aren’t the most well-built. They also cannot run a lot of software needed in many professions or in universities. They have little to no storage. They are slow. They wear out quickly.Maybe not 98% but I would say 90% easily. I look through college campuses and nearly all sorority girls have MacBooks for no reason. They are just surfing the web and writing word documents. There is absolutely no reason to spend $1k on that. Before I could see it because Windows machines were slow to boot and had worse battery life. But Chromebooks have proven that you don't need to upcharge machines due to booting up fast and having good battery life.
Just randomly looked at this Chromebook. For $400 why would you not buy this if you were a sorority chick in school? Literally throwing away money buying a MacBook for over 2x the price.
ASUS Chromebook C425 - Google Chromebooks
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Perhaps you aren’t aware, but women in universities these days, yes even those in sororities, major in fields such as engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, etc. These highly intelligent women often require a lot more of their computer than what a chromebook can offer.
I've never used those I just picked one at random, but I am fairly confident that Chromebooks that are half the price of a MacBook are sufficiently powerful & well-built.
And you are clearly missing the point here. There is a significant chunk of Mac users that can do everything that they want to do on a Chromebook at half the price, whether its' 98% or 94.2341234231435% does not matter.
MacBook should be back, this has been a missing opportunity.
I thought moving to ARM would lower Macs prices but I guess not.
I thought moving to ARM would lower Macs prices but I guess not.
I wouldn’t be fairly confident of how powerful and/or well-built something is if I’d never used it. I’ve worked with sub-$500 machines like this. They are only good for a couple years at which point some components start to wear out and/or the barely-capable specs can no longer keep up with the demands of the modern web apps after 2-3 years. Meanwhile, people with 10-year-old MacBooks are still getting use out of them.
That extra money up-front is truly worth it.
Chromebooks are designed for longevity by being a web browser. It will still boot just as fast in 4 years as it does now. I know people who still use 5 year old chrome books. ChromeOS is the iOS of computers. They do not need a lot of resources to run smoothly.
They aren’t built for longevity. You can tell that just by picking one up. Hey, I don’t mind if people want to use these, or if young kids use them for school. But I think a lot of people want a powerful computer, built to last, at a reasonable price. A MacBook Air M1 for $1000 is a much better deal than a cheap Chromebook when factoring in longevity, power, and reliability.
Not gonna lie; I’ve been very interested in Chrome OS lately. Mac IS is just so damn finicky, especially with external monitors.
As someone who is partially colourblind like 10% of the male population, can I suggest sacking whoever put that graph together, or at least smacking them over the head with a soft cushion and never letting them near graphics software again. I can intimate which line is Chrome OS and Windows from their position on the graph but I certainly can't by colour... "Let's colour Windows blue, and what colour shall we pick for Chrome OS?... why yes, also blue." I am presuming one of those colours isn't blue?
I’m not exactly worked up over this!
As a parent I know our school went crazy getting chrome books so kids can get remotely set up for schooling.
Why would they need an M1 processor when working with web apps would suffice on a much less powerful CPU?
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... and, Rupert Maggot's Fox Spews makes more money than The Economist.
Different markets, and they're worth what you pay for them, especially if you're a tax payer footing school 'IT' giveaways to make sure your retirement will be supported by the new generations of trained whatevers.
Different markets, and they're worth what you pay for them, especially if you're a tax payer footing school 'IT' giveaways to make sure your retirement will be supported by the new generations of trained whatevers.
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