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The good news for Apple is most of those Chromebooks will have disintegrated or otherwise found their way to the landfill in two years, which certainly helps Apple's chances.

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My Asus chromebook still going strong after four years (unlike my wife's Samsung laptop). Sure it cost a bit more than the average chromebook but the quality is excellent.

The good news for Google is that they don't ship software that shreds your soldered SSD in 18 month's time.

Having helped my child with a school issued chromebook: anything Google may gain from students familiarity with ChromeOS is negated by the absolutely abysmal performance. Opening a new tab is a 10 second wait. I have to believe these kids will grow up associating chromebooks and chromeos with pure frustration.

I don’t know what, if any, minimum specs Google is enforcing but they need to at least double it.

Color me surprised, a $150 laptop is slower than a $900 one. What else is new? Has Apple stopped hoarding all the good silicon at TSMC, or do Chromebooks still have to settle with 14nm chips?

Huh, I've never used a Chromebook (even a cheap one from 2014) that had more than a second wait to open a tab. Sounds like there's something wrong with whatever ones your school particular issued.

The google workspace suite (gmail, docs, etc.) is quite heavy for school chromebooks, but a big part of the issue with school issued machines is they're running a monitoring solution on top of it. I've seen GoGuardian peg a 1/2 cores as well as the additional bandwidth that is probably a concern in a classroom with 20 other machines.

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