brandonkick
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I understand, and advocate supporting whatever your clients need (want really) but this chromebook thing really doesn't seem logical to me.
The "good ones" are almost twice the price of a comparably specced dell business class laptop.
The "affordable ones" compromise highly on hardware quality, most either having very little disk space, 2-4GB of ram, very small screens (some as small as 11 inches) and low "horse power".
Why? Why save $200 for an experience like that. Why jump through hoops to get the chrome book to do "enough" of what you need it to do in order to be "mostly practical"? I know you tend to do what the guy writing your checks tells you to do... but I wouldn't want to support a fleet of chromebooks, or listen to the people who use them gripe and complain. If you need an email checker and basic web browser, fine I guess... but doesn't everyone walk around with one of those in their pockets already?
At my day job, they have been going the other way. They mainly use office and quickbooks, but almost everyone in the office LOVES their dual monitors. Most people doing basic use have dual 21's and the drafters have dual 27's. Love them. At first it was a struggle to get that started... but after the drafting department had their dual 27's at each workstation, some "office" people started wanting dual setups. After the first one got one, they all wanted them. Now they all say there's no way they would ever go back to a single 15 or 17 display. So having said all of that... who really wants to use an 11 inch screen all day? I use dual 24's and most of my time spent on a machine is doing web app development. I'd really like to move up to at least 27's
The "good ones" are almost twice the price of a comparably specced dell business class laptop.
The "affordable ones" compromise highly on hardware quality, most either having very little disk space, 2-4GB of ram, very small screens (some as small as 11 inches) and low "horse power".
Why? Why save $200 for an experience like that. Why jump through hoops to get the chrome book to do "enough" of what you need it to do in order to be "mostly practical"? I know you tend to do what the guy writing your checks tells you to do... but I wouldn't want to support a fleet of chromebooks, or listen to the people who use them gripe and complain. If you need an email checker and basic web browser, fine I guess... but doesn't everyone walk around with one of those in their pockets already?
At my day job, they have been going the other way. They mainly use office and quickbooks, but almost everyone in the office LOVES their dual monitors. Most people doing basic use have dual 21's and the drafters have dual 27's. Love them. At first it was a struggle to get that started... but after the drafting department had their dual 27's at each workstation, some "office" people started wanting dual setups. After the first one got one, they all wanted them. Now they all say there's no way they would ever go back to a single 15 or 17 display. So having said all of that... who really wants to use an 11 inch screen all day? I use dual 24's and most of my time spent on a machine is doing web app development. I'd really like to move up to at least 27's
