Having helped my child with a school issued chromebook: anything Google may gain from students familiarity with ChromeOS is negated by the absolutely abysmal performance. Opening a new tab is a 10 second wait. I have to believe these kids will grow up associating chromebooks and chromeos with pure frustration.
I don’t know what, if any, minimum specs Google is enforcing but they need to at least double it.
The google workspace suite (gmail, docs, etc.) is quite heavy for school chromebooks, but a big part of the issue with school issued machines is they're running a monitoring solution on top of it. I've seen GoGuardian peg a 1/2 cores as well as the additional bandwidth that is probably a concern in a classroom with 20 other machines.
Huh, I've never used a Chromebook (even a cheap one from 2014) that had more than a second wait to open a tab. Sounds like there's something wrong with whatever ones your school particular issued.
Color me surprised, a $150 laptop is slower than a $900 one. What else is new? Has Apple stopped hoarding all the good silicon at TSMC, or do Chromebooks still have to settle with 14nm chips?
I don’t know what, if any, minimum specs Google is enforcing but they need to at least double it.