{"id":422,"date":"2012-10-19T11:04:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T15:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/?p=422"},"modified":"2012-10-19T11:04:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T15:04:59","slug":"google-chromebook-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/19\/google-chromebook-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chromebook. Seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read about this today. I thought about it. Come on. Let\u2019s take a tablet and add a keyboard and double the weight and lessen the battery life and remove the touchscreen ability. No. Wait! Let\u2019s take\u00a0a laptop, slow it down, remove Windows and install an OS we made up. Oh and it\u2019s only useable with Internet access \u2013 wifi. Still, for $249, someone might buy it right?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m all for playing with new devices. But even I (who owns a banished HP Touchsmart and uncool Blackberry Playbook among other various tech sundries), have my limits. Google\u2019s argument appears to be that there are avid Google cloud users out there that can\u2019t get their work done with a real laptop or a tablet. But, I\u2019m not one to say it\u2019s useless \u2013 just that I can\u2019t think of a use for it. Right now. So, let\u2019s see how many shell out $249 for it.<\/p>\n

For the WSJ article, see:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390443684104578064760833900452.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read about this today. I thought about it. Come on. Let\u2019s take a tablet and add a keyboard and double the weight and lessen the battery life and remove the touchscreen ability. No. Wait! Let\u2019s take\u00a0a laptop, slow it down, remove Windows and install an OS we made up. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[7,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-personal","category-slates-for-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gH3K-6O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}