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Some chromebooks come with a big hd or ssd. But nobody seem to buy them



I wonder if anyone buys chromebooks at all in Europe, given that I only see them as single unit being victim of whatever promotion of the week, until eventually someone takes that thing out of the store.


"victim"?? Chromebooks are the perfect laptops for people who don't understand computers.

No viruses, no antiviruses, no forced reboots...


And what about privacy? An entire OS that records everything you do online, it even records printing to your desktop printer.

Microsoft rightly gets skewered for tracking user behaviour in Windows 10. A few years ago, Canonical was heavily criticised for sending anonymous data from Ubuntu to Amazon. Meanwhile, Google captures more user data than possibly any other tech company - we're talking gargantuan levels of data - and yet on matters of privacy, the tech community gives Google a free pass. Why such double standards?


Because Google is a SV darling, so whatever they do is cool.


It has no viruses because it has no userbase. Mac OSX enjoyed this same privilege until it had sufficient users to attract attention.

It's better to learn how to properly use a computer, then you can get whatever you want and use it correctly instead of leaping from one gimped platform to another.


> No viruses, no antiviruses, no forced reboots...

Browser exploits, cross-site scripting, fake-urls, cookie harvesting, SSL impersonations ...


I've never actually seen a Chrome book in the wild.




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