{"id":5915,"date":"2016-05-25T12:36:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T12:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=5915"},"modified":"2016-05-25T12:36:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T12:36:54","slug":"linked-why-i-bought-a-chromebook-instead-of-a-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/05\/25\/linked-why-i-bought-a-chromebook-instead-of-a-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Why I Bought a Chromebook Instead of a Mac&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4594,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/gizmodo.com\\\/why-i-bought-a-chromebook-instead-of-a-mac-1778403065&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250824083844\\\/https:\\\/\\\/gizmodo.com\\\/why-i-bought-a-chromebook-instead-of-a-mac-1778403065&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 10:19:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-30 19:09:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-08 17:32:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-11 22:59:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-16 16:41:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-20 11:23:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-23 22:02:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-29 02:29:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-02 21:24:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-06 00:23:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-12 08:28:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-15 10:27:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-18 15:31:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-23 14:31:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-27 05:32:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-30 07:55:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-02 12:52:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-06 08:56:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-09 10:52:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-12 14:33:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-16 00:23:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-19 03:33:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-22 09:33:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-26 18:08:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 10:52:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 22:35:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 17:55:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 04:28:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 11:06:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-26 11:33:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 07:10:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 08:02:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 23:48:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 23:48:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/why-i-bought-a-chromebook-instead-of-a-mac-1778403065\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Gizmodo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The biggest consideration was price. When all was said and done, even the cheapest Mac laptop was going to set me back about $1,300 after taxes and AppleCare. And the siren song of a computer under $200 was calling my name. I got the Acer Chromebook with 2GB of RAM and a 16GB drive. It cost a shockingly low $173.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>I rarely have to edit video and my photo manipulation needs are minimal. So when I walk down to the coffee shop to work, what the hell do I need doing that can\u2019t be done on a Chromebook? Nothing, is the answer. Precisely nothing. And if you\u2019re being totally honest with yourself you should probably ask the same question.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>But for those people who can\u2019t see much practical difference between the last three iterations of their iPhone, the idea of a high-end laptop like the MacBook is becoming silly.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Point #1 is kind of valid. The MacBook Air is actually $899 with a dual-core i5 processor clocked at 1.6Ghz along with 4 gigabytes of ram, 128GB SSD and Intel Graphics. The $179 ChromeBook has an Intel Celeron with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage not to mention it\u2019s made of plastic and I can\u2019t tell if the keyboard is full size or not. It\u2019s also considerably thicker.<\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, it runs a Google Operating System, the company that no one should trust with their personal data as opposed to Mac OS X which is built in UNIX, very secure and has millions of native applications.<\/p>\n<p>Author says nothing they need to do is impossible on a ChromeBook. I guess they don\u2019t do anything outside of a web-browser.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t imagine ever not using a Macintosh. Here are some things I do that I don\u2019t think are possible on anything but a Windows or Macintosh machine w\/ a processor that supports Virtualization, has SSD, dedicated graphics and at least 12 gigabytes of RAM.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows 10 within Parallels running 24\/7 (ArGIS, CAD, Tableau)<\/li>\n<li>Lightroom CC storing thousands of Canon RAW Images and used forediting<\/li>\n<li>Final Cut Pro editing 4K 30FPS video files<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Outlook w\/ a hundred emails a day, appointments, access to our exchange Global Address List and shared calendars<\/li>\n<li>Slack running full time as a dedicated app<\/li>\n<li>Drag-and-Drop of anything to anywhere<\/li>\n<li>Full-Time RSS refresh via my hosted Fever Installation<\/li>\n<li>iMessage<\/li>\n<li>iCal w\/ CalDAV refresh on my server<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Lync<\/li>\n<li>Skype for Business<\/li>\n<li>Dedicated blogging software since I don\u2019t like writing in WordPress as I found browsers too distracting to get real work done<\/li>\n<li>A constant VPN connection for work &amp; my server<\/li>\n<li>Backups to my Synology NAS At home<\/li>\n<li>access to WebDav, SMB and AFS networked disks at home and at work<\/li>\n<li>FTP Tool w\/ shared bookmarks and Bonjour access<\/li>\n<li>A file-system w\/ meta-data search that\u2019s not being indexed by anyone outside of my network<\/li>\n<li>A media library with 4 terabytes of content all in iTunes with playlists and accessible from anywhere via my Synology<\/li>\n<li>A 400 gigabyte Photos for Mac Library\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>5K resolution at home, 4K at work via an external Thunderbolt monitor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most importantly, not needing to be connected to the Internet to get work done. Try editing your photos or writing when Offline. You might get by for a few minutes but the ChromeBook needs Internet. I don\u2019t always have that. Some days, I feel like I\u2019m taking crazy-pills. Are professionals actually buying ChromeBooks and getting work done? Are they actually able to do work like I do (which some days, doesn\u2019t feel like work because I love it so much) with a Google ChromeBook?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or is this some justification by journalists because they\u2019re so underpaid these days that all they can afford are NetBooks and this is a way to sort of stick it to Apple for being \u201ctoo expensive\u201d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Gizmodo: The biggest consideration was price. When all was said and done, even the cheapest Mac laptop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-06-02T13:29:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"b7331061-c4a5-454b-a7de-745d239e9f2c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-06-02T13:29:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AtzMQYcSlRUun3nRdI56fLA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1xp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2749,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/07\/20\/macbook-air-is-where-the-icloud-lives\/","url_meta":{"origin":5915,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 MacBook Air is where the iCloud lives","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Andy Ihnatko: Two Highly Curious Objects arrived in my office recently and have provoked many hours of blank stares and idle speculation: a tube of sunblock and a Google Chromebook. 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