Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Stop Calling these “Chromebooks””.
When I was a kid, they had a special room in the school for kids like me, who wanted to learn about computers, but then suddenly, poof out goes to the computer lab, and in comes these things, Google’s partners have sold 100 million Chromebooks in the last 3 Years 100 million, though kind of makes sense when you consider how many of these devices are purchased by schools or by parents who were forced to buy them by schools, but it may not just be schools in the future come think of it with that. Many of them out there there may be one in your house right now and you better get used to it, because Google has made their linux-based OS so polished over the years that these students are growing up with an experience that may just be good enough for Them to not think of this as a Chromebook, but just as their laptop could 2020 something finally be the year of the Linux desktop, but dressed in a chrome costume. I believe it will, which is probably horrifying to just about everyone. So let me explain after a quick word from our sponsor build Redux, they build fully customizable gaming, PCs suitable for any budget, pick your favorite games and see how they perform using their online pc Builder.
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Os machine: it’s no wonder that people saw the first Chromebooks for what they were underpowered junk, but Google’s been playing a long game, something that softpedia recognized way back in 2015 when they said Microsoft is engaged in a silent war and is losing just four years. After being introduced, Chromebooks were slowly eating up market share not at home, but in schools, which I mean kind of makes sense. Most students, especially below the college level, only really need email, a web browser and the Google productivity suite and getting the schools on board was easy due to the cost. The cheapest iMac, which is what many schools used to have in their computer labs, is over $ 1,200 now so uh hm. Let me see I can have 30 of these and they don’t even move or I can have 150 of these h. Tough call. Google also helped the schools manage these enormous fleets of machines by investing heavily in administrative tools for the Google workspace environment, account management, shared access to files and storage support for group collaboration. These have all made it easy to adopt the Google ecosystem and that’s even ignoring the general ease of use and convenient Cloud synchronization. So in this way, Google’s kind of The Pusher giving kids their first hit hooking them, while they’re young. If you think about it, do you know anyone who buys an iPhone just because they already have an iPhone and they just need a new one? Familiarity is King but come on lius. I can hear you saying I mean how does any of that help with this supposed long game if Chromebooks are still underpowered e-waist? Well, that’s the thing. Google recognized that problem – and this is the fix. Chromebook plus promises a new minimum standard for Chromebook devices, delivering improved performance power, powerful included software and longer support up to 10 years, all while targeting a $ 400 starting price. This unit from Acer is right around that Baseline of Chromebook plus it has a 1080p 15in display, a core I3 12 Gen processor, 8 gigs of ddr5 RAM and 128 gigs of storage, and we saw this thing for as cheap as $ 270 at Best Buy.
Now there are entry-level Windows machines around that same price or in some cases, even lower, but they make awful compromises on everything from performance to display, while also running a heavier operating system and by the time you’re. Looking at something running windows with a 1080p display, you could be paying 50 to $ 100 more for that Windows license well, you know, what’s not heavy and has no license fee Linux, which has always been the Beating Heart of chromos. Just now, it’s a lot easier to unleash these days. It is literally one checkbox to enable a Linux terminal and to start downloading Linux.
Native software, like blender, just a simple command and blender’s installed. Classroom takes about 30 minutes to run with BMW sitting at around 15 minutes. So all right, it’s not the fastest thing in the world, but guys if this was a Windows machine at this price in these specs you’d be very impressed for about $ 250 $. This is very usable for day-to-day tasks and in a pinch as we’ve shown, you can even do some light.
Real work on it and it’s not just blender Ken live is a video editor that works on here, as well as audacity, which is a powerful open- source. Audio capture and editing program, the list of native Linux applications really is long and continues to grow with the help of the open source community and, of course, some corporate players who have played a role as well with a huge driving force behind the recent gaming Renaissance. On Linux being valve, who has dumped significant resources into the proton compatibility layer allowing tons of non-native Windows games to be played on Linux, and, as of quite recently, I, this loading bar ever goes away even Chrome, OS time for some distractions? From my studies, let’s give it the old restart. Look, I didn’t say it was fast.
This is very slow with screen capture running this could be a problem. I I will try yeah, you won’t be kickstarting your Twitch streaming career with this setup, I’m afraid o yeah. I’M going to stop screen, recording all right yeah. This will work.
Oh okay, yeah. I think it’s basically just when it needs to animate. Quite literally anything, it struggles tried plugging it in no improvement. I don’t think it’s a performance issue.
I think it’s more of a proton translation layer issue. Let’S try something that I know runs a little better Hollow night, all right! This is more like it. This is great. This is perfectly playable. Let’S try a different game. This is running great too.
Look. Obviously, you’re not going to be playing AAA games, but within the confines of what the hardware can handle. You can use proton DB to show what game games are natively supported or you can use steam link to remote into a different computer or a cloud-based gaming service. It’S all pretty cool right, I mean when I was a kid I would have loved to be able to play even simple games and have an affordable device that I could call my own, and even the camera is reasonably decent.
So is the microphone and I don’t even have anything too negative to say about the keyboard considering the price. Now you might still think that these devices are just e-w and I get it. It’S not like. I’M going to be switching to Chrome OS as my daily driver anytime soon, but how many people do you know who basically use their computer to call man on the weekends or pull up a recipe for baking? You might not agree with me about this, but guys mark my words. Acceptance for cloud applications, even heavy ones like 3D modeling, animation tools and video editing, is at an all-time high and Chrome.
Os will work its way into the market as a daily driver operating system. For for many people after they leave school and join the workplace where the onboarding process could be as simple as adding their work account to their Chromebook that they already own might not be this year and it might not be next year. But I see you, Google and I’m kind of into it if it means that the year of the Linux desktop can finally move Beyond meme status. What we’ll never move Beyond meme status is this segue to our sponsor red magic. They recently released their new flagship gaming phone, the 9 Pro specifically engineered to strike fear into the hearts of the enemy team, with the brand new Snapdragon 8 gen 3 processor, their ice 13 cooling system and a 6,500 Mah dual battery it can handle even the most Demanding games for extended periods of time, plus with 80 wat fast charging.
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