<div dir="ltr">The Pros are its cost/performance. They generally run very well for what they do. The battery life is pretty good also.<div>The cons you cannot fall back to Firefox for sites that will not allow chrome, and you are using a small net-book that is 100% purpose built to run just a browser.</div>
<div><br></div><div style>Within that there are a number of tools giving you a great deal of functionality inside the chrome browser as a plugin. One of my favorites of these is an SSH client. they also have RDP and VNC clients as well. so in a pinch you can remote someplace and get something done..</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:41 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@actionline.com" target="_blank">joe@actionline.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Thanks for sharing this, Keith.<br>
Seems like a Chromebook might be excellent for travel.<br>
One can readily see some good "pros" ... what are the "cons"?<br>
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How superior is Intel Atom N455 dual core performance than Intel Celeron<br>
dual core?<br>
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Seems like the Samsung Chromebook at $249 is better in a lot of ways.<br>
Longer battery life and perhaps better construction.<br>
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