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0 pointseuyyn9y ago0 comments

> It's really not a "gift".

> It takes some hardcore groupthink to be convinced that it's otherwise.

lol so you'd rather your school not be able to afford issuing your kid any laptop whatsoever? Do the teachers at your school want the kids to use AutoCAD, but someone forced them to buy Chromebooks?

More than half the schools are voting for this with their money already http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/03/googles-chromebooks-make-up-h... If your Google conspiracy is true, why is the company so cunning, but at the same time dumb enough not to extend the gift to all schools?

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ocdtrekkie9y ago

It's actually funny you mentioned the CNBC article as a source: It's junk. They made one correction a year ago when I pointed out all the flaws in it, and the article is still misleading. ;) Futuresource intentionally cherry-picked data, basically by excluding... well, most of the PCs schools buy categorically.

The biggest problem is the lock-in. Given that Google has them in on all of their hardware, mail, docs, classroom platform, once you decide to go the cheap route, because $200 laptops sound like a good idea, it's really hard to escape. You guys are basically the 90s Microsoft of the 10s.

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