[tw04]

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.

[epakai]

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.

[kgen]

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.

[smoldesu]

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?