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Permalink Reply by Payden on February 15, 2013 at 3:04pm

My step-dad bought one because it was the cheapest laptop he could find that was still new and was from a brand he trusted. Simple as that.

$250 is hard to beat with all his criteria. At least that's how much he paid for it.

He knew we could upgrade RAM and Storage if necessary and didn't care for gaming.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin J Baird on February 15, 2013 at 4:16pm

Storage?  Does it even have storage?  I'm not sure you need RAM or Storage.  It's all web based and cloud based.  

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Permalink Reply by Payden on February 15, 2013 at 5:30pm

Well, yeah.

That was the point. He just wanted something that could get on the internet and he could use for work, but he also wanted to ability to upgrade it later so that if he wanted to, he could do other things.

Particularly, watch movies in HD. He might need more Storage for that.

And the one he bought has storage. I believe it had ~180-250 GB's.

This one is similar to what he bought.

Except that his had an HDD and not an SSD in it.

We never used the cloud or anything like that. The newer ones are geared more towards that (the one I linked has 16 GB of flash storage, not much for anything really.

His is one of the older ones.

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Permalink Reply by kolop1 on February 15, 2013 at 9:28pm

I've thought about the same thing. You can get a laptop for $300 with Windows. I don't really know why anyone would want such a limited device.

I guess it's good for someone who only wants to surf the web and that's it.

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Permalink Reply by FlatBot on February 16, 2013 at 10:16pm

It's about as useful as a tablet computer, but with a keyboard.  Oh, and it's a couple hundred bucks cheaper than an iPad.  I think it's pretty obvious why the chromebook is doing well.

If they could run Android apps, I'd probably buy one.

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Permalink Reply by Hawksprite on February 18, 2013 at 12:01am

Kind of on the flipside of what you're saying I wonder if there's a build of chrome OS for tablets. 

I know ubuntu has a new OS for nexus devices and firefox I believe is also building one.

I was just about to say Google could get into the market of building phone operating systems then quickly realized the massive hole in my thinking process.  

FlatBot said:

It's about as useful as a tablet computer, but with a keyboard.  Oh, and it's a couple hundred bucks cheaper than an iPad.  I think it's pretty obvious why the chromebook is doing well.

If they could run Android apps, I'd probably buy one.

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Permalink Reply by FlatBot on February 18, 2013 at 2:22pm

>I was just about to say Google could get into the market of building phone operating systems then quickly realized the massive hole in my thinking process.  

Yeah.  This further illustrates the need for Google to merge their Chrome and Android platforms.

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Permalink Reply by Hawksprite on February 18, 2013 at 9:35pm

I suppose since chrome OS is more or less just chrome they already have.

Chrome on android is a phenomenal browser.

I'm not sure what the app support is like on the android version but they could probably expand upon it a bit more and catch up to chrome os.

FlatBot said:

>I was just about to say Google could get into the market of building phone operating systems then quickly realized the massive hole in my thinking process.  

Yeah.  This further illustrates the need for Google to merge their Chrome and Android platforms.

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