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Is there any point and what use are they?

I get the idea about keeping the computer unimcumbered and as such free of all the crap that slows performance but what use is a computer, in particular a lap top (read "bought with the intention of using in a portable manner) that can't store any data on it? Plus the idea of improving performance kind of dies away when you have to account for possible lag caused by varying internet connection speeds.

Surely we have the always on, instant access, that we were told we would get, in both android and Apple tablets with both having keyboard and mouse options that make them comparible to other small lap tops for web browsing and such, especially the android powered net books.

When I first heard about Chrome OS I thought the idea was great but technology has move on a lot between the project being anounced and the availablity of the product in the shops. If they were cheap I'd understand it but they've only just been launched over here, complete with Norwegian keyboards and characters, and I don't see any noticable price difference to comparible android and windows devices which are capable of so much more, not least off line use.

Am I missing something here or have Google just wasted an awful lot of money?


 
There will always be those who buy into it VOTN as they don't get they don't need it. I am sure Google will know that and it will be a money spinner, somewhere along the line

 
The point of the Chromebook is to force you to pay rental for cloud storage. I don't think people will fall for it.
 
But cloud storage for most people's needs is free. Google music lets you store loads of albums, I have a couple of hundred documents on google drive and have barely touched my allocation, pictures and docs in dropbox and only used a fraction and huge capacity on photo bucket and similar not to mention the capacity to store pics on g+ both shared and private and Facebook. If they want people to buy cloud storage they will have to be less generouse with free allocations.
 
I'm currently using around 300gb of the 700gb hard drive on this laptop. I'd imagine that software accounts for a lot of that 300gb. Some work files I don't use often stored on an external hard drive at work and most of my music and photos are on a 1tb external hard disk at home. I'd imagine that software accounts for a lot of that 300gb. I reckon if I kept everything on this laptop I'd need 1.5tb or more. I guess it depends on what you use it for. A HD film can be 1.5 or 2gb.
 
I don't store films on my devices, ironically I stream them. It really is only software and films that take a lot of space and as I'm not a gamer or a film maker or run a business then I only need basic software and not a huge amount of storage.
 
It's the future. Cloud computing is the next big thing. As usual Google are ahead of the game, and until universal fast broadband is the norm, this will seem odd, but within 10 years this is how we will compute. Personal profiles in the cloud accessed from any dumb terminal.
 
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