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Google Unveils Acer's Chromebook Tab 10 Ahead of Apple's Education-Focused Event Tomorrow (cnet.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Maybe Acer knows what Apple is up to tomorrow, maybe not. Regardless the information and communication tech company announced today the world's first Chrome OS tablet made for the education market, the Chromebook Tab 10. Designed for use in K-12 classrooms, the 9.7-inch tablet could potentially add to Google's Chromebook lead in the US education market and take some of the wind out of Apple's education-focused press conference on March 27. [...] Acer's new tablet, which will sell for $329 in April, is built around a 2048x1536-resolution IPS touchscreen with 264 pixels per inch. A durable Wacom EMR stylus comes standard and stores in the tablet's chassis that's only 0.39-inch thick (9.98 mm). Running on a Rockchip OP1 processor, 4GB of memory and 32GB of storage, the Tab 10 fully supports Google Play giving schools access to educational Android apps.
...need cameras at all?
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I remember when it was received wisdom that one of the only two markets where Apple fought tooth and nail for was education. Now it seems more like Apple says if they can't give students a tablet, they'd rather cede the market. To them, if it's not a super profitable market, fuck it.
Here's why that's wrong...
At Apple's valuation, they could easily slice and dice the market to build a solid moat to protect their high end.
1. MacBook: $500-$1000. Simple, crappy specs, but solid design aimed at lower income people and students to suck them into the "Apple Lifestyle" as best as you can.
2. MacBook Air: $1000-$2000; ultra mobility laptop.
3. MacBook Pro: Desktop replacement; $2000-$5000 price tag.
The irony? My company wouldn't think twice about dropping $3500-$4000 on a desktop replacement w/ 32-64GB of RAM and rock solid design. Apple could segment the market even higher if they had the vision.
You mean Ubuntu or Mint, so it's not tied to any of the Big Pigs of tech?
Yeah, it takes courage to have lots of ports on a laptop! It takes courage to have a thicker laptop for the sake of having a better keyboard and more battery life! It takes courage to price such a laptop at around $500!
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From my experience. almost no school uses Mac's. iPads have pretty much supplanted them. Chromebooks and ChromeBases are supplanting the Windows PC's since almost every K-12 app is web based anymore, and no IT dept wants to deal with Windows roll-outs and malware anymore.
For a brief time, I worked for a K-12 school with iPads and chromebooks. The biggest issue Apple needs to address is managing them. Chromebooks are pretty much "Get on WiFi, register, and manage through the web console". iPads are "Pray the third party management software works right this time or you're going to be entering iTunes passwords 3 times on 300+ iPads."
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Can I install Windows 10 and actually turn it into something useful that's not tied to Google?
Like a door-stop ?
https://github.com/dnschneid/c... should work
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Tablets are better than laptops for writing book reports, learning programming, creating websites, etc. So some people think, anyway.
Fuck apple
The Acer Aspire E 15 E5-575-33BM is a $350 15.6", 1080p laptop with an i3-7100U and 4 gigs of RAM. It's upgradeable to a point, so more RAM is possible, as is a SSD. Includes a keyboard, so no need for a bluetooth one as the tablet would require.
Windows products are price competitive in the mid-tier and above. It's usually in the ultra low-end where Chrome/Android device might have better hardware for the price.
Tablets are not yet as useful because they will not ever be as useful. Without a keyboard, you can't accomplish a significant quantity of real work ... Which is why you can attach a bluetooth keyboard to pretty much any tablet today. And for tablets you can also buy keyboard cases that integrate cover and keyboard.
So your point... where is that again... lost it.
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My company wouldn't think twice about dropping $3500-$4000 on a desktop replacement w/ 32-64GB of RAM and rock solid design.
It's called an iMac (or an iMac Pro, though that's a little higher than your range). They are solid designs.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
"Some people" who have never typed a few pages on a touch screen or Smurface gummy keyboard.
This was meant as sarcasm, right? Text editing is much better with keyboard and mouse and a decent sized monitor.
Sorry, but that is total BULL. Anybody who prefers a tablet over a laptop for developing (text based) content is a masochist and has no clue about the difference between the platforms.
That said, winning the tablet market is going to require something lower than $300.
Without a keyboard, you can't accomplish a significant quantity of real work in a reasonable time
for tablets you can also buy keyboard cases that integrate cover and keyboard.
Which combination of tablet and keyboard case that totals less than $300 is any good? An iPad mini alone costs that much without a keyboard case.
We'll see more and more Inexpensive tablets, netbooks, etc based on ARM v8 CPUs that have nearly the performance of low-end desktops, and that's a Good Thing.
Correction: Apple and Google are competing for your tax dollars to defund effective teaching practices and materials, to siphon them off into corporate tax havens, regardless of whether the replacement teaching practices and materials are at all effective.
BTW, a 2015 OECD study http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789... found a negative correlation between ICT use in K-12 schools and academic outcomes, i.e. literacy, maths, science, etc..
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because it's so out dated. Sure. Google is scum for disallowing google logins to all devices. Screw them.