When a trend appears in a sector, it is good to make people aware of such happening. Chromebooks first made their appearance in classrooms, and the standard was, and still is 11.6" screens. There are other sizes as well, but excluding Google Pixel Chromebooks, most machines are low powered devices with average display. You can check the specs and they all read:
Chrome Os, 2GB - 4GB memory, 16GB SSD, 1.8 GHz to 2.8 GHz in various colors and chip manufacturers.
You can find the specs of each device from any of the many manufacturers. Our objective is to show how the product is changing in focus, not to conduct benchmark testing, etc... That is better left to others.
The 13" is more than the size, it is the direction Chromebook manufacturers are headed. Chromebooks want to move to from the classrooms to the boardrooms of corporations. Dell was the first to try to tap that market, for a while there, it occupied the segment with a more powerful, less school like device. Asus, Lenovo, and HP are all either already offering or about to bring theirs to the market.
Prices and performance also show some steep increase in the high end of the product line. The message here is that Chromebooks are not just for schools anymore, they are a force to reckon with in the months and years to come.
One of the lessons, and there are many, that we can draw from this evolution of the Chromebook computer is that the quest for more practical solutions to existing problems knows no boundaries. In the coming years, as the cloud grows, the need for light, yet safe, affordable, and reliable computers will become an imperative. No, desktops will not disappear overnight, but mobility will dictate the shape and size of the devices used to access data in the cloud.
Chrome Os, 2GB - 4GB memory, 16GB SSD, 1.8 GHz to 2.8 GHz in various colors and chip manufacturers.
You can find the specs of each device from any of the many manufacturers. Our objective is to show how the product is changing in focus, not to conduct benchmark testing, etc... That is better left to others.
The 13" is more than the size, it is the direction Chromebook manufacturers are headed. Chromebooks want to move to from the classrooms to the boardrooms of corporations. Dell was the first to try to tap that market, for a while there, it occupied the segment with a more powerful, less school like device. Asus, Lenovo, and HP are all either already offering or about to bring theirs to the market.
Prices and performance also show some steep increase in the high end of the product line. The message here is that Chromebooks are not just for schools anymore, they are a force to reckon with in the months and years to come.
One of the lessons, and there are many, that we can draw from this evolution of the Chromebook computer is that the quest for more practical solutions to existing problems knows no boundaries. In the coming years, as the cloud grows, the need for light, yet safe, affordable, and reliable computers will become an imperative. No, desktops will not disappear overnight, but mobility will dictate the shape and size of the devices used to access data in the cloud.
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