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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 Lagg on Wednesday August 13 2014, @09:43PM
Both really. Thin clients became pointless and the cost of mainframes was no longer worth it as well as the fact that thick clients are simply easier to deal with for specialized tasks, they're technically and economically superior. They still are too since even chromebooks have been proven to not need "The Cloud" and run just fine given a decent linux distro or even Windows. This Cloud nonsense is mainframes without the technical or economical advantage. It's stupid marketing for stupid people, and yet it's being bought into.
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