Comments on: Google Chromebook Comparison: Acer vs Samsung

By: Geoff A

Geoff A — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:37:34 +0000

Now two weeks into my ACER Chromebook. It has exceeded my expectations in every way. Once you figure where the delete key lives .
I streamed a movie to my 46″ HiDef TV using the Chromebook HDMI port. Extremely impressive. Worked every bit as well as my Windows 7 desktop.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, the lack of HDMI excluded the Samsung for me.
G-Mail, Google Docs and Picassa on the cloud are functioning perfectly.
I changed to this from a late model Dell Laptop that my Daughter had need of. So far, zero regrets.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:14:04 +0000

@Geoff – Yes, no HDMI i nthe Samsung… deal breaker for sure.

Curious… do they have an input for a hardline internet connection?

How much work can you really do without the internet anyway? I have internet everywhere I go and if I don’t I assume I’m not getting anything done anyway.

Prices will come down, bugs will be fixed, in a year these will be an obvious buy.

By: Geoff A

Geoff A — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 23:06:16 +0000

Acer has HDMI and Samsung does not?

That’s a dealbreaker to me.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:37:59 +0000

I tried the online search test using my gmail account and my desktop outlook. Both have the same email in them. The gmail search took around 2 seconds. The outlook search took 39 seconds. How is it that the online searching works much faster than the desktop. I have a new very expensive desktop computer. I assume that this Chromebook will get similar results in the gmail online search that my desktop got.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 24 May 2011 19:26:04 +0000

Depending on your Outlook setup, searches may be faster or slower than Gmail. With a large Exchange mailbox accessed through Outlook I had through a past company, search was useless as it wouldn’t return any decent results for several minutes! Same size mail box on Gmail, and a search completes within a few seconds.

By: Mia

Mia — Tue, 17 May 2011 08:05:11 +0000

I think that we aren’t ready for chromebooks; we need our laptops to be able to work perfectly even without Internet access. So, for the time being I’ll personally won’t buy a chromebook.

By: Genghis

Genghis — Sat, 14 May 2011 00:44:56 +0000

Just a minor thought, who owns the documents, etc. that you create on-line and can you be guaranteed exclusive and ongoing access to them?