Chromebook any Reason to Buy this?

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Peachesbackwards

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I was planning to buy a desktop PC for a second computer for my den (not to leave my house) and are there any good reasons to buy a chromebook? Is the internet faster or anything- I do use Chrome as my Browser and I do have an external optical drive. Just trying to understand if there are any real pluses or am I better skipping this. Thanks for your input
 
The Chromebook is good for surfing the Internet and using google products like picasa, google music, google books and a few other things. Your optical drive will not work on it though and only about 90% of the app's in the market place work being that some app's are designed to run on chrome browser in Windows.
 
I'm writing this from a CR-48 (Google's prototype chromebook). It used to run Chrome OS, but I uninstalled it in favor of Windows 8 due to one major problem: speed. For some reason, Chrome OS performance was really bad. Of course, this may have just been because the CR-48 was running a special version of Chrome OS. If the version on the actual chromebooks is faster, I wouldn't say that it's too bad of an idea to buy one. The OS itself is not too bad, and if you use Google Docs like I do, it's not too hard to get used to. Chrome OS has its fair share of problems, however; it doesn't naturally support java yet, so you can't play games like Minecraft or Runescape without trying to manually hack java on it. Also, it doesn't yet support Google Earth.

P.S. It's funny seeing a chromebook ad under your post. :P
 
spynoodle said:
I'm writing this from a CR-48 (Google's prototype chromebook). It used to run Chrome OS, but I uninstalled it in favor of Windows 8 due to one major problem: speed. For some reason, Chrome OS performance was really bad. Of course, this may have just been because the CR-48 was running a special version of Chrome OS. If the version on the actual chromebooks is faster, I wouldn't say that it's too bad of an idea to buy one. The OS itself is not too bad, and if you use Google Docs like I do, it's not too hard to get used to. Chrome OS has its fair share of problems, however; it doesn't naturally support java yet, so you can't play games like Minecraft or Runescape without trying to manually hack java on it. Also, it doesn't yet support Google Earth.

P.S. It's funny seeing a chromebook ad under your post. :P
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The CR-48 is nothing in comparison to the hardware of a new chromebook.
 
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