In a world of Google, “Chromebook” is a small developing place. Google is taking the development of Chrome OS and Chromebooks too seriously. Recently HP and Acer launched two brand new Chromebooks in the market.
If you are looking to buy Chromebook instead of traditional Windows laptops or MacBooks just look at these main pros and cons of Chromebooks.
Advantages of Chromebooks
Price
Price of a Chromebook is very budget friendly when compared to Windows laptops or MacBooks. They are very inexpensive and costs nearly about $250, this is a pretty good reason to prefer a Chromebook.
Booting Times
Chrome OS boots at flashing speeds, it just takes only 10 seconds for booting up. This a pretty good point when compared to Windows laptops.
Virus Free
Chrome OS is based on Linux, which means the possibility of getting an infection is fairly low. Linux offers a virus free environment when compared to Windows which is very high. Google packed Chrome OS with an initial booting code in read-only memory. And all the installed apps run on a sandboxed mode, which means the app cannot be configured and alter the OS.
Auto Update
Chrome OS can update by itself, means when you boot up it starts with an automatically updated version.
Multi-User
Chrome OS built with multiple login features, which lets login with different user accounts. Not only multi-user support it also lets you open all your shortcuts, settings, wallpaper and desktops where you left on other Chromebook using your Google account.
Disadvantages of Chromebooks
Optical Disk
In Chromebooks, optical drives are absent and even they don’t support external optical disks. If you are still using CD/DVD’s Chromebook is not for you.
Gaming
Chromebooks are not ideal for gaming. It supports games in your browser only in HTML and Flash formats. Chromebook is not meant for serious gamers.
However, the Chrome Web Store has some popular games like Angry Birds and Doodle Jump means it can handle games available in Chrome Web Store. It can’t run PC games so don’t expect high-end gaming experience in Chromebooks.
Printer Support
Chrome OS doesn’t have a direct printing option in its OS. For printing, you need to use “Cloud Print”, which means you’ll have to connect a printer to an internet-enabled Cloud Printer setting installed a computer or you can buy a “Cloud Printer” ready printer.
Storage Space
The storage space of a Chromebook is very less. It normally comes up with 16GB SSD, in that OS consume 6GB remaining 10GB is usable to store your files, documents, pictures, and videos. However, Google is giving 100GB of cloud storage free for the purchase of Chromebook for the first two years.
Work Offline
Chrome OS supports work offline, but most of your content is stored online which requires an Internet connection to access. If you live in a no network area, you have nothing to do with a Chromebook.
Google Chromebook has its pro’s and cons like other devices. Best is to check before buying a Chromebook whether it is suitable for you or not based on the above-mentioned points.