Nice! have always considered picking up a Pixel from ebay, but would need to be the right price.
How are you finding the most recent ChromeOS build? Since going back to m-itx set-up, I've not fired up the ChromeBox...
Yeh, for the price I got it you could get a pretty decent Windows laptop, but the build quality wouldn't come close. It was a bit of an impulse buy - probably not very sensible
US keyboard layout is the only annoyance.
ChromeOS is coming along fairly steadily, albeit not on the same level as Android. External monitor support is now good. My main issue now is that you can't disable mouse acceleration forever.
Apparently they are being adopted quickly in schools and now account for 21% of all notebook sales.
My dad is thinking of getting a Chromebook. If my dad bought a Acer C720 how long would he get updates for? I mean is it like Android tablet were after 18 months any further updates are stopped?
He is looking for something to replace an XP netbook and likes the look of these Chromebooks due to simplicity of use.
As manic111 said, in theory ChromeOS shouldn't 'slow down' as traditional laptops do. I suppose as time goes on and websites become more HTML5 intensive, they will use more resources but the Chrome team seem to put a lot of effort into making the browser load pages efficiently.
I would recommend the Acer C720 because it seems great value. My second option would be the Toshiba 13 inch Chromebook - better screen and build quality, although it's £50 more. The HP 11 is the nice but that ARM processor lets it down.
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