A Chromebook boots in seconds, and updates itself within the background. No extra lengthy, arduous, fraught-with-peril updates executed at inconvenient occasions. The Blue Display of Demise is a factor of the previous. There isn’t any bloatware to delete and no viruses to fret about, and thus no heavy virus-scanning software program is important.
Easy crusing
The {hardware} is mostly cheap however fairly strong and extremely straightforward to arrange. Nonetheless, most Chromebooks include simply 8GB of RAM, which, as I discussed above, will get pushed to the restrict when working VS Code in Linux. Discovering a Chromebook with 16GB of RAM generally is a problem and disproportionately costly, making the purpose much less compelling, I suppose.
In fact, whereas I don’t need it to occur, I don’t fear about my Chromebook being misplaced or run over by a bus as a result of it’s fairly straightforward to interchange. The time from unboxing to being again in enterprise is minutes, not hours like it might be with a Home windows machine. Whereas a pair hundred bucks is nothing to sneeze at, figuring out that I can exchange a lacking or out-of-commission machine simply and rapidly is sweet certainly. (The draw back right here, although, is that the temptation to get a more recent, quicker, higher machine is tougher to withstand.)
