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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 mojo chan on Wednesday August 13 2014, @05:29PM
Controlling your own machine was fine when most computer users had some expertise. When desktops became common IT staff quickly realized that users were incapable of looking after themselves, so they started taking back control by locking things down and re-imaging machines every night. They also centralized things like file storage and backup, because users never backup.
For most users the centralized "cloud" model is a benefit, as long as the person in control can be trusted. In a corporation or school that isn't too much of an issue. Where it matters is with things like Facebook where the people in control really can't be trusted and don't have the user's best interests in mind.
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