So whether you’re an individual or a business, there are significant cost savings to be made by using Chromebooks. My mid-range Windows laptop cost four times as much as this without - at least when it comes to using Chrome and cloud-based software - being four times as good. (Ok, I picked it up in a sale, but you can definitely buy a perfectly usable Chromebook up for less than $300, as the Chromebook pricing screenshot above highlights). To illustrate this point, it’s worth mentioning that I wrote this Chromebook review on a machine that cost me just $175! Google Chromium OS is the first step towards a revolutionary Web-based operating system that uses online apps and stores everything on the Internet.The pros of using Chromebooks Chromebooks can significantly lower your hardware and IT costsĬhromebooks have the potential to lower your information technology (IT) costs in several different ways.įirst - and for the reasons discussed above - they are much cheaper to buy than ‘normal’ computers. On the downside, I think this revolution is still going to take quite some time, until we get used to a web-only operating system – not to mention the fact that Chromium OS is still at a very early stage of development. Google Chromium OS is undoubtedly a revolutionary operating system that challenges us users to change our image of computers, and the way we've been using them so far. Weird because it's completely different from any OS you may have tried so far – it's just a web browser – but intuitive because a web browser is where we spend most of the time on any other OS, so there's no learning curve at all. Google Chromium OS may look a bit weird at first, but it's also very intuitive. It's the perfect OS for low-spec computers like netbooks.Īfter logging in with your Gmail account, you're ready to start. That's what makes Google Chromium OS so fast and lightweight: the OS doesn't need to install anything on your computer, because you can access everything online. Google Chromium OS is meant to be used with online apps, and you will store all your files online. Almost everything is web-based, or if you prefer it, in "the Cloud".
The web based nature of Google Chromium OS is its most outstanding feature.
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