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Robert Pogson reports:
Recent news about the popularity of Chromebooks with schools may seem puzzling.
Schools in Hillsborough, New Jersey decided to make an experiment out of its own program. Beginning in 2012, 200 students were given iPads and 200 students were given Chromebooks. After receiving feedback from both students and teachers, the schools sold off their iPads and bought 4,600 Chromebooks.
After all, a keyboard is a great input device and writing is one of the three "Rs" but why not just [buy] a notebook PC? The answer is that the high cost of maintaining the legacy PC is too great. Keeping content on the server makes the job easier and with Chromebooks, schools don't even need to own the server.
...then there's the malware, the slowing down, the re-re-rebooting with that other OS.
That makes the ChromeBook a winner in education and probably a lot of organizations large and small, even consumers. Of course, they could get those benefits with GNU/Linux but it would take more technical knowledge. Again Chromebooks win.
See iPad vs. Chromebook For Students
(Score: 2, Insightful) by TK on Wednesday August 13 2014, @01:32PM
We* know that tablets are only for content consumption, just like we** know that Linux*** is the superior**** operating system. However, school administrators are not the typical Soylent/other site/tech news website reader/commenter/content creator. They have to make decisions based on what the information they're given, most of which is from sales types.
I think this is fantastic because instead of blindly following the sales mouthpiece of one company and then going all in, they did a trial period and determined which one they preferred. This is critical thinking, and it's a good thing.
*For some values of 'we'.
**For some values of 'we'.
***For some value of Linux.
****For some values of 'superior'.
The fleas have smaller fleas, upon their backs to bite them, and those fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum
(Score: 2) by bart9h on Thursday August 14 2014, @02:08AM
You don't need technical knowledge to know that a physical keyboard is more appropriate for writing text than a touch screen.