Chrome book worth it for a small light laptop

[makitso]

I have a love hate relationship with Chromebooks. To me, the biggest problem with them is that your totally at the mercy of Google. Case in point, last week Skype stopped working on Chromebooks [political fighting between MS and Google]. Turns out that Microsoft stopped supporting it on Chromebooks. Yes, there is a workaround [user agent] but my point is that Google just ups and changes things with little notice nor concern about user impact.

[Tadaen_Sylvermane]

I've been debating switching to a Chromebook. For my use case, they seem perfect. As long as I can use Docs / Sheets offline and have a couple Android apps I rely on, it will work for me. Trying to simplify my computer life, quite complicated right now. I am stuck in Google's walled garden so it seems a natural choice for me. Crouton if I absolutely need it (gnucash).

[mastablasta]

I have a love hate relationship with Chromebooks. To me, the biggest problem with them is that your totally at the mercy of Google. Case in point, last week Skype stopped working on Chromebooks [political fighting between MS and Google]. Turns out that Microsoft stopped supporting it on Chromebooks. Yes, there is a workaround [user agent] but my point is that Google just ups and changes things with little notice nor concern about user impact.

this is also one of the issues in opencourse apps and operating system. many just come and go or change on a whim, while businesses want reliability and stability.