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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 DeathMonkey on Wednesday August 13 2014, @06:47PM
Don't ever learn to program
Here [reddit.com] are at least nine ways to program on a ChromeBook.
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday August 13 2014, @07:01PM
From the first comment.. "It would be nice if you also were able to mention which ones support offline mode on Chromebooks."
Point is that the Chromebook is extremely dependent on the good will and workings of Google and their NSL trolls.