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Sales of Chromebooks are so miniscule that they're not even being tracked by the majors.

google should jsut stick wid chromos..its promising..wud be a big thing after 2-3 years..

SOHAMBHATTACHARYA, on 30 May 2012 - 12:36 PM, said:

The virtual lack of sales to date speaks otherwise.

I don't trust Google, and never will. They track way to much, an invasion of my privacy. For that reason alone, I would never run their OS.

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The subject of this thread is ChromeOS and the poor sales of Chromebooks, not Google's behavior. Do try to stay on topic.

deepsand, on 31 May 2012 - 11:03 AM, said:

He was stating that and reason why he wouldn't run the OS, so is essentially in line with the topic as regards the OS.

This post has been edited by coastie65: 02 June 2012 - 04:12 PM

They should partner with an online based POS vendor. These would make great entry level POS units for small businesses.

JamesHardin, on 01 June 2012 - 08:06 PM, said:

As a virtual POS terminal, it lacks the abilities to import data from an Order Entry sub-system, and to store and export response data into any other sub-system.

As a physical POS terminal, it is massive overkill with respect to hardware and firmware requirements, lacks the ability to handle card swiping, and cannot use a cheap POTS line for communications with a card processor's server.

As a client on a LAN, not only is it not capable of running necessary local applications, it lacks the essential ability to physically connect to a LAN.

Thanks Coastie, from an ex-Coastie myself. At least you read, and proved you could comprehend my post. Some people seem to critize without being able to do either of those two things. Lol.

This post has been edited by coastie65: 02 June 2012 - 04:18 PM

Jameshoqh, on 02 June 2012 - 09:44 AM, said:

Hi and thank you for your service. Please try to keep your posts on the topic at hand. This post could be considered confrontational and the last sentence in particular could be inflammatory.

i have been a chromebook owner since december 2011. by far my favorite pc. ever. i have a desktop at work, 2 desktops at home and a laptop. i was already in the cloud for everything in order to work from any machine. moving files around is simply no longer part of life or business.

i love the new chromeos and after living through 20 years of windows upgrades that took hours, this experience was a 10 second reboot.

the slow adoption is more a statement of how entrenched the file metaphor is than *any* real shortcomings of the chromebook. the fact that i have 10 hours of battery means i don't even have to bring the charger around with me. it stays at home. google stay the course!

i recommend staging a series of public/publicized time test competitions for users who in an average day open and close over 50-100 documents. three groups - mac, windows, chromeos. i can access any google document in under 5 seconds. on a filesystem/apple/sharepoint system it takes 90 seconds minimum. thats an enormous business case that cfo's will make cio's listen to.

chromeos adoption will lag but follow gdocs adoption.

EricLannert, on 22 June 2012 - 06:33 PM, said:

Google docs are but a scintilla of the universe of user data.