Does anyone actually buy Chromebooks apart from schools?
Does anyone use Adobe apart from schools? Yes, because the students who used it at school went to work and wanted to use it there.
I love my chromebook, 90% of the time when I’m lazing around nothing I need uses more than a browser, although it also runs a debian variant and can run android apps, which is useful occasionally. It’s light, doesn’t get remotely hot, has no fan noise and the battery lasts ages.
My mother has one because she doesn’t need the complexity of windows breaking everything… she only needs gmail and facebook.
My girlfriend bought a really cheap one from Lenovo. Besides watching movies and browsing the web there’s not much you can do because ChromeOS is extremely limiting. Wouldn’t ever recommend anyone to buy anything with ChromeOS on it.
Sounds like the perfect device for my parents and many many other people I know.
My parents, for whom the internet is the only worthwhile thing a computer can be used for, love their Chromebook
I mean, it was for on campus use, but I bought one in college to have a cheap note taker and basic homework machine for on campus that wouldn’t set me back too far if it got stolen or broken. I had a gaming desktop at home and was in a non-technical major, so it worked out great.
I’m wondering the same thing. Chromebooks cost way too much for what they are.
Unless you go with “high spec” one they are all basically under £350 and generally way cheaper than that.
Is that not cheap?
That is cheap, but if you go to Google’s own page about Chromebooks, the options you see there are all in regular laptop pricing territory. Does anyone actually buy Pixelbooks or gaming Chromebooks?