Does investing your dollars on a new Chromebook make sense? Larry Seltzer, a writer with ZDNet, argues that it doesn’t. Seltzer’s main concern with the Chromebook? The device simply doesn’t do enough.
Slow sales
Google hasn’t scored a hit with its Chromebook laptops. As Seltzer writes, these laptops are just not selling to consumers. Seltzer doesn’t see this as surprising. The big problem with Chromebooks is they can’t do what most other laptops can do. And that makes them a bad purchase at just about any price, Seltzer writes.
Hybrids
Seltzer writes that hybrids are a far better buy for consumers. These combinations of tablets and laptops — think Microsoft’s Surface line of products — provides consumers more performance for the money. Seltzer writes that there isn’t anything that consumers can do with a Chromebook that they can’t presently do on a Windows laptop that’s running Chrome. The question then becomes, why would anyone wish to spend money on a Chromebook?
Limits
What can a Chromebook do? According to Seltzer, all they really do is run the Chrome Web browser. Sadly for Google, Windows laptop computers already do this. So do MacBooks. And these other devices also perform many other tasks that Chromebooks can’t. Seltzer’s advice then is very simple: Don’t waste your money by purchasing a Chromebook.