mmosbey wrote:Taiden wrote:^^ Yep
How do you like the Chromebooks?
It's nice. It's an appliance. I don't really bother with maintenance, as that's all done for me.
My day job is computers, and I can certainly get things done on the Chromebook, but not having to is really nice.
While the hardware is designed to the OS, so it's a little different from your typical Wintel box, allowing owners to run their choice of operating system is a stated core design goal, so the locking down of the system is to serve the owner, not hinder him.
It makes the web more useful for retrieving little bits of information - from powered off, I can be surfing in about ten seconds. From standby, I'm up faster than I can move the lid. It'll outpace my Android phone or my Windows 7 laptop in time to web.
I could almost make it my primary machine, especially with all of the playing about I've been doing with Amazon EC2, but I really would need to upgrade my printer to one that supports Google Cloudprint, as the Chromebook doesn't talk directly to printers.
Oh, and every time I read anything by Eric S. Raymond, I remember that I'm part of the problem when using the Chromebook.
HRMM..... how did i not know about these?
free hat?
