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app4that t1_j8gk7hw wrote

Reply to comment by strangebutalsogood in Worldwide Shipments of Tablets and Chromebooks Declined Sharply in 2022, According to IDC Tracker by Majestic-Praline-696

I don’t know… for connecting to a work VPN, browsing, email, Zoom, streaming, etc, a ChromeBook at the $200 level seems to do everything quite well. For that price you get a machine that takes care of itself with virus and security updates for the next 7 years and is a great every day machine. It is not meant for high intensity compute tasks or gaming though.

Plus, if you for some crazy reason ever decide to loan it out and the person trashes it or loses it, it’s not a major wallop on your budget.

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Laumser t1_j8hm707 wrote

I look at Chromebooks as modern day word processors, and for that theyre quite decent.

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AkirIkasu t1_j8od153 wrote

The thing I hate about that 7 year figure for support is that it comes with so many hidden catches. First and foremost is that it starts from when the device first came out, so in order to get anywhere near that figure you have to buy a brand new device which may or may not have any trustworthy reviews at that point. And even after that they may not get new features added to ChromeOS. I had an early chromebook that Google had explicitly promised would be getting an update to run Android apps and the Google Play Store. Years passed, it ran out of it's support period, and it never happened.

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techieman33 t1_j8z29yh wrote

They work for streaming video, but it’s a pretty painful experience. They’re just to slow to do it well and without lots of lag.

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