If you don’t know me, I’ve been a staunch disbeliver in tablets and Chromebooks for a while now. The former, because why do I need a tablet if I have a smartphone with a 6.8-inch display? The latter might be more of an old-woman-screams-at-clouds scenario. I grew up with Windows and MacOS, ChromeOS is a strange beast to me.
Ever since, the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook debuted way back in 2011, the idea of a Chromebook just hasn’t sat right with me. The absence of a desktop, dearth of tried-and-true apps and clunky design made Chromebooks a firm non-starter for this tech journalist. Chromebooks’ one redeeming factor in my opinion was the price, with many of the early systems costing a maximum $300.
