6 doubts about Chromebook

When the product is not officially experienced, many people are selling suspiciously about the effectiveness and creativity of Chromebook laptops.

When the product is not officially experienced, many people are selling suspiciously about the effectiveness and creativity of Chromebook laptops.

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This week, almost no technology event will exceed the frequency of new Chromebook-style laptops, as Google tries to create its own "iPad moment ." These Internet-only laptops basically seem to have changed the way computers work, said Sundar Pichia, Google's vice president, in charge of Chromebook projects. So far, when the product is not officially experienced, many sellers are skeptical about the effectiveness and creativity of these Chromebooks. And here are some of the tech journalists' doubts.

"Chromebooks will not cooperate with the iPod" - a Zdnet journalist.

Millions of iPhone, iPad and iPod users will not be able to use Chromebooks with these devices. It was a task that Chromebooks didn't complete, and also didn't seem to want to complete. Google seems to want to convince users of Apple products that they need to change devices, or forget about Chromebooks. And certainly, it is an unattainable goal for a brand-new product like a Chromebook.

At the product launch, Google demonstrated how Chromebooks can handle files from a digital camera, but there is no iTunes, iPod and iPhone in Google's schedule.

"They're too expensive with the lowest price of $ 429 and $ 349" - PCmag reporter

Will people be willing to spend so much money on retrieving an unproven device, whether it completes the mission of a traditional operating system laptop like Microsoft Windows? Chromebook Series 5 uses Intel Atom N570 1.66GHz dual-core processor, 16GB mSATA solid-state drive and 2GB RAM. Those are the specifications of a netbook but have the price of a low-end laptop.

"People are still not ready to trust the cloud," - InformationWeek reporter

Simply put, cloud services are not really popular with users, and many people are skeptical that cloud services may crash, and users may lose data.

"Golden moment for hackers" - expert Kaspersky security vendor

With Chromebook's cloud operating system, hackers' race will heat up. Many people have wondered about security, Chrome OS is better or worse than Windows?

"Google can not produce hardware and user support" - Silicon Valley reporter

The latest time Google has been involved in hardware production is the Nexus mobile phone, and that's basically a disaster because it doesn't support users.'I have seen some customers angry because they cannot have answers to some of their problems. And that's Google's culture: automating every process. '

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