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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) by tathra on Wednesday August 13 2014, @04:49PM
wouldnt this be more due to the OS running on them than the hardware itself? iOS especially is made just for consumption within a sandbox, and from what i understand android is basically the same way just with a bigger sandbox. tablets themselves arent a hindrance to creation and are especially useful for things like art.
for schools, the surface would probably be the best choice if they're set on the idea of tablets (assuming the OS running on the surface is the basically the same as regular windows, i dont know anything about them)