Chromebooks Don't Suffer From Bad User Experiences Found on Windows and Mac Computers, Google Says (aboutchromebooks.com)

Kevin C. Tofel, writing for About Chromebooks: Having worked for a Google Chrome Marketing team over an 18 month period, I never saw a project that aggressively goes after Windows and Mac computers like the one that was published today [Editor's note: the video is unlisted, but accessible]. [...] As someone who has used (and often still does use) other platforms, I can't really disagree with the point of this video. For too long, computer users have had to deal with cryptic errors, updates that can take hours to install and the dreaded blue screen of death / spinning beach ball.

Granted, some of my personal experience with those issues was when I was in corporate IT for 15 years; that career ended for me (by choice) back in 2007. And clearly, all desktop / laptop platforms have improved since then. Even so, Google is highlighting the modern approach of Chromebooks with this short video and that's an important point.

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Re:News for nerds?

[DontBeAMoran]

Meanwhile, Apple are castrating their computers a bit more every year while increasing their prices.

Let's see how this ends.

Re:News for nerds?

[postbigbang]

Windows free? Nope. Not gonna happen.

Chrome is just a subscription-less operating environment.

The entire post is Google PR. Why? Chromebooks are cloud devices and of course you'd have a great experience, because you would blame problems on cloud vendors.

What's at play here is the cloud model vs client/server or endpoint resource/storage. 32GB of storage is less than I have on my phone, and I'm not alone.

The Chromebook is a terminal access device. Remember Sun and their Network-is-the-Computer maxim? Who was CTO of Sun at the time? Remember Eric Schmidt? He also worked at Microsoft-hating Novell for a while, too. The Chromebook is a pointedly stupid edge terminal device, devoid of much power, and priced accordingly. It's part of a centrist computing model where you PAY some one in the center to give you your fix of processing.

This is not to say kind things about Microsoft, rather, the Chromebook is simply a terminal with memory. Comparing it to Windows isn't a good argument, as Chrome and Windows in the context of the Chromebook are two different things and models.