Cloud computing has made life easy for customers. An average booting time of a traditional laptop is 40 to 60 seconds. Chrome book operating system boots up well within 10 seconds. Chrome book gives 100% security to business data even when the notebook is stolen or lost, as it stores your entire data on the cloud. Google provides faster, secure and cost efficient solutions to the business,
fwiw: I have 2 iPads, a Google Nexus tab, a Lenovo laptop, Kindle Fire, a couple old laptops (Sony, HP), a 3 ChromeBooks. 99% of the time I use a Chromebook.
Ordered one over the weekend as a Christmas gift for my husband, in large part because of all the discussion on Internet Evolution (and prompted by the fact that, yes, his desktop has died). I'm looking forward to seeing what he thinks, what I think, and how well it compares to other laptops we have at home.
Thanks for sharing this article, Robert. I have bought Chromebook almost a year ago, I liked it however we know the Chromebook itself will not sell. There has to be a reason for the consumers to justify why they should not buy other products. Last time I check there is no app to run Skype. If you could not run Skype on a device that is not a consumer device yet. Google has to bring widely used apps to it first before we see any Chromebook.
@Nathan I agree with you here. It doesn't seem possible but there are plenty of people who don't care what browser they use because they don't know what one is anyway.
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The Malware on Android and IOS plaftorms(for mobile) is mind-boggling today!!!
Only a fool will use such a Device without Decent Anti-virus/Anti-malware protection.
With Windows atleast they have a regular patch cycle[Patch Tuesday] and all the vulnerabilities and Holes get wide publicity and get patched very quickly.
On the other hand ;Google,Apple,Adobe and Oracle totally suck when it comes to patching existing vulnerabilities very quickly[Within 30 days of it going out in the Wild].
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