Comment by ActorNightly
9 hours ago
ITs going to sell like crazy not because of specs, but because its apple, and its a cheap. Cause god forbid you pull out a chromebook in a starbucks and be seen as a peasant.
If you know what you are doing and don't want to spend a lot of money, its really not that hard to buy a refurbished thinkpad, swap in more ram, and install your linux disro of choice, for a lower price and get very similar usable performance.
MacBooks are a far superior product, not just a status symbol
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And run what on the Chromebook exactly?
Web browser and youtube. You know, what people mostly do on macbooks.
Aside from gaming, I can do basically everything on Mac that I can on Linux or Windows. That's a hell of a lot more than a Chromebook. Take it from someone who has owned both a Chromebook and a Macbook; suggesting that they are in the same league is silly.
Also, used != new. I'm surprised people need to be reminded of this.
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But that’s all you can do on Chromebooks.
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The Chromebook would be slow and run worse software. So… but also yeah nobody wants to look like a peasant.
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What school IT director does this?