US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the Thousands

Re:US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the T... by frollogaston on Monday August 03, 2026 @04:07PM (#49160758)

Chromebook has a browser-first Linux OS that can run on ARM and is easy to manage, so why did these schools need to switch to Mac? Chromebooks seem to have a bad reputation like earlier Android phones, why can't they fix that? Meanwhile they aren't successfully taking Windows users while Microsoft keeps making that experience worse.

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Re:US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the T... by throwfaraway4 on Monday August 03, 2026 @04:19PM (#49160891)

Because they’re low quality trash

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Re:US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the T... by frollogaston on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:11PM (#49161489)

Sure but this should be fixable. They tried with the Pixelbook and gave up. Feels like a languishing product that's also not stable.

Edit: Oh, there's the Googlebook now, which I vaguely remember people complaining about when I worked there but it had a different name. Classic Google rugpull.

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Re:US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the T... by yndoendo on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:18PM (#49161568)

As others have pointed out Google is dropping Chrome OS for an Android AI OS that still is not out. They no longer list Chromebooks in their official store.

Both Microsoft and Google are pushing AI into everything. Studies keep showing that AI reduces quality of understanding and long term retention. AI in schools is oxymoronic.

Out of the three, Apple is the only company focused on a quality tool and that is decoupled from AI.

To get the maximum out of education, schools need to return to physical books and use laptops as a limited resource.

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Re:US Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks for MacBooks by the T... by frollogaston on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:19PM (#49161579)

Ok, "current thing deprecated, replacement not ready" is a very obvious reason to ditch this.

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