>Chrome should run significantly better on Chrome OS than it does on Windows or IE does on Windows for that matter.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. In my machine IE and Firefox beats Chrome performance almost in everything. And I have seen ~$100 tablets running Windows 8.1 and the performance is far from crappy.
Re:$149 Chromebooks
by Sanddancer on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @04:12PM
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I've got a $100 tablet and $30 bluetooth keyboard running windows. This means that I have a small form factor machine that I can develop on, and with a usb otg cord, I can connect to near anything I want. Finally, it comes with a real bios, so I can install whatever operating system I want on it, without doing silly things like removing screws.
I would like more details on this. What kind of development are you doing? What was the specific tablet and bluetooth keyboard you got?
Re:$149 Chromebooks
by Sanddancer on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @06:09PM
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Development is mostly using Avr Studio to do embedded stuff. The tablet was the Asus VivoTab8, the non-note version, unfortunately. The bluetooth keyboard was just some generic keyboard and case [1]. My only complaint really is that the meta keys are cranky within putty, but other than that, it's been pretty solid for me.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KCKXIXE/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_d...
Also, Chromebooks usually seem to be targeted at kids or tech illiterate folks who don't want the complexity of Windows. Even a $99 Windows machine won't change that.
And what about the security of Chrome OS? It's "virtually" unhackable, while Windows...well, it's Windows.
As for Minecraft, Google has been promising Android apps on Chromebooks, so maybe before long that will work, too. But as others have said, it's still $150 hardware. So I wouldn't expect too much from it.
Also, last I checked Office also runs in the browser now? Microsoft seems to be making quite a big deal about that actually.