Granted, I hadn’t been using it nonstop, but I had been doing a lot with it: surfing, editing a paper, moving around citations on Mendeley. The battery life is remarkable - after 27 hours, the battery had dropped from 97% to 19% charge. At this point I liked the Air's form factor much better - but of course the Air is twice as expensive.ĭuring this second day, the Chromebook began to grow on me. It definitely has some potential, but I worry that the hardware will hold that potential back. So what did I think at this point? I was expecting to either love or hate the Chromebook, but at this point, the jury was still out. The cheapness itself has some appeal to me, since in comparison to the Air it's a disposable device - sort of like my Kindle. Of course, it costs only half as much as the Air. Not as cheap as my old Toshiba netbook, but certainly not to par with either Apple device.
And weight - the Chromebook is surprisingly heavy.Īs many have complained, the hardware feels a bit cheap. It doesn't mean a bigger keyboard (the Air's keyboard is better designed), but it does mean greater width, length, and depth. That means a bigger screen - but the screen is not as sharp. But it's bigger than the Air in nearly all dimensions. The Chromebook is much smaller than the 15" MBP, which seems like a behemoth now. What does bother me is that the machine is a bit clunky. I know that people have complained about the trackpad, the lack of a delete key (it has a backspace key instead), and various other things. The hardware is adequate but nothing to write home about. Eight seconds is pretty short! And accounts are handled elegantly. The other thing about ChromeOS is booting. The ChromeOS "implementation" is just the web app with which you're already familiar. The GDocs iPad implementation is entirely inadequate for my needs. Basically, the experience is just like my Macbook Pro, except the screen is much smaller.Īs a side note, Google Docs is one of the main reasons I'm not interested in an iPad. In particular, Google Docs - where I spend a great deal of my time - works well and responsively. Once I set up the Chrome apps I usually use - Tweetdeck, Pandora - I got back into the swing of things. I also have a large number of PDFs that haven't been pushed into the cloud.įor me, then, things are pretty seamless. Personally, I only use a few desktop applications on a regular basis - including a SQL front end, Notational Velocity (for tricky passwords), and the Mendeley desktop app (which syncs to the cloud Mendeley has a web interface too). If you're a heavy consumer of cloud-based software, you'll be fine. ChromeOS is pretty much what you expect - the browser is the interface.
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