Dear Google Chromebook, this is our story….
Everyone has to start somewhere with technology and once upon a time I had the best of stuff. I used to have a Sony super-awesome laptop until my ex-partner decided to watch porn on it out on the balcony of our apartment one night. It wasn’t the porn that killed the laptop but the three storey drop into the carpark below that smashed it to pieces. I was then forced to get a cheap laptop and have a hard think about my relationship. We aren’t together anymore, not because of the porn, but the complete disregard for my possessions that annoyed me.
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The next laptop served me well for years. It had everything I could need on it and I regularly done updates, cleared out the hard drive, and kept everything important on a back-up drive. All was good it seemed. And it was, until one night my husky decided to jump on my while I was working and my laptop was knocked from my hands and smashed on the floor. The hard drive was fine but the screen was smashed to blackness. Part of me died that night. It was like a friend had been killed in front of me and I could do nothing to stop it. For those of you who think that I’m strange for considering my laptop a friend, well, that’s just me.
After this, I had to find a cheap replacement for my poor friend, and fast! I’m doing a degree, writing a book, I work online. I needed one ASAP! And I found one in the form of a HP Google Chromebook. Yes, it works. But for someone who needs it every day for more than just using Facebook, it’s as useful as a fart in a spacesuit.
1) The charger broke within a few days and trying to get a replacement for it was like finding chickens teeth.
2) I have essays to do and there is a thing called “google docs” on the Chromebook, but is it compatible? Is it the same as Word? No. No, no, no, no…… It is not the same and it is not compatible with anything.
3) You can’t download Microsoft Word on to the Chromebook, I’ve tried, twice. That’s a bag a money I’ll not be getting back anytime soon.
4) It’s not compatible with an iPhone, or iPod, or anything Apple. Guess what phone I have? Yep, iPhone 5.
5) Because it’s not compatible with anything I can’t upload pictures from my camera.
6) I wanted to do a YouTube channel and it can’t/won’t edit videos.
7) The battery life is terrible and because the charger I use to charge it with pants, I can’t even plug it in and continue to work.
8) The app selection is terrible and half of them don’t work.
9) If you download an app and don’t like it, it’s a nightmare to delete it.
10) The is no cd/dvd port on it. I know with it being a notepad it shouldn’t have but it’s still annoying.
So, there you have it. The reasons why I hate my Chromebook. It might seem childish to complain about something like this but I picked it because of the good reviews it got. Like I said, if all you need a laptop for is flicking about on Facebook or Twitter, go for it. But anything more than that, you will need to fork out about money because it will be no good for you. For now, it will have to do the job, I’m too scared to go and see how much a decent laptop costs.
Sidenote- I wrote this blog post on my Chromebook, in fact I’ve been working on it all day. So far my hubby has had to remove from me twice because I was about to throw it at a wall, violently. He also had to hide the hammer because I was going to smash it into a million tiny pieces.
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This basically sums up why I will never buy a Chromebook.
You get what you pay for in the tech industry. If you don’t mind a high “cost of ownership” (both in terms of wasted money and headaches), go for Chromebooks and cheap Windows laptops. If you want to reduce the amount of mental distress, go higher up and shop for the machines that give you the best overall experience. It’s worth it in the long run.
I freaking hate Chromebooks too.
1) There’s not enough memory on the hard drive to play The Sims
2) It crashes, A LOT
3) It freezes, A LOT
4) Some of my “automatically saved” assignments in Word online (which you can access by going on your office 365 account) don’t get saved when the tab crashes
5) When tabs crash, it takes FOR-FREAKING-EVER to finally work properly
I also forgot to add that they don’t print
Or scan to it. Or read an attached file before you hit send. Mine only allows me to save it. Yes the price was great, but sadly, it is only good if FB is it’s only use. I f$cking HATE MY CHROMBOOK!
Couldn’t agree more, especially the app part. I was lucky my parents even got me this chromebook so i’m stuck with this trashy thing.
I hate Chromebook big time! The worst invention ever! Arghhh
1) Excel and Word do not have a full functionality
2) I can edit my docs normally, it is all messed up
3) It’s slow!
4) It’s not compatible with many softwares and apps
Ppl do not buy a chromebook ever!
Worst thing I ever bought! But I mustn’t speak ill of it….it might hear me and crash again!
But to be happy install linux or windows on your chromebook! My chromebook is sooooooo bad it doesnt support linux beta or play store… bad BADDDDDDDDDDDD CHROMEBOOK
It’s an imitation laptop. Everything is counter-intuitive. Why am I “google-ing” how to use functions on my Chromebook? Google, is this the best you can do? Absolute junk. Extensions suck. There were times when I became so frustrated with Windows. I love my old laptop compared to this thing. Absolute garbage.
Honestly I hate chromebooks. After my school bought chromebooks for everyone, they discovered they will not print. So we had less money to buy printing computers and now we have two. Two printing computers for a whole school of kids. To make things worse, my father took away my laptop and gave me a chromebook. It is horrible. I hate chromebooks.
Yep. My whole county basically got them because they were cheap! Definetely wasn’t worth it!!!!
Total rubbish, waste of money and gets me cross quicker than anything on God’s earth. What idiot devised this heap of …. Basically it’s a con, big time; fine for playing games, FB usage etc but serious use, forget it. The sales assistants who big it up in shops need a lesson in honesty!
I agree with you completely! It was the worst thing I ever spent money on
I bought this piece of trash before looking at all of the reviews, buyer beware. Worst purchase ever, can’t install my games, had to use a google e-mail, nothing I like works and there is never instructions on how to fix anything. Unless you are a computer geek, don’t bother with this thing. FYI, it took my son, who is an IT geek, over an hour to install a printer to this piece of trash. going to cut my losses and purchase a real computer. Sob, money lost that I can’t afford.
When I play my games they always take forever to load and otherings happen with the chromebook to like Loading…..
Actually you do often get what you pay for, $200 bucks for a laptop seems like a pretty good deal. Until you go to use it. But it doesn’t have to be that way. If your looking for a decent laptop, buy business grade. Especially Dell. You can buy them new or used. There’s little to no bloatware, easy to service and easy to find parts. But the best part is the build. It’s nothing to find a nice used Latitude with nice specs on ebay or amazon for much less then these cheap $200 laptops. The screens, CPUs, and expansion are always better on these. Like the e6500 series. Dirty cheap. I have an e6530 I paid $150 bucks for last fall. It has an i7 8 GB of ram and Nvidia graphics. I recently stuck in two Samsung SSDs for a very fast boot in Windows 7. It does everything I could ever ask, and fast. Editing HD videos? No problem. Oh and since there’s no bloat, my whole system operates very efficiently. I get about 6 hours on a used battery. That’s just my two cents.
Although I live in the internet, I have no real idea of how to work the stuff that gets me there. The Chromebook was sold to me as the idiots laptop of choice. What I didn’t know was that only idiots buy them. Maybe one day I will understand how they work and we can chat like two pros…..
1) This is posiible with all cheap laptops
2+3) Google docs is okay cinsidering its free and you can export it tio word if you want. Plus you can gt the web based version ooffice.
4) There are plenty of goo google compatible pps you an use tht work with the cloud.
5) Ever heard of SD cards.
6) There is a video editor built into youtube.
7) The battery life is one the best things on chromeboos.
8) I’ll give you that the app store isbt the best, the play store is coming.
9) No its not. if you want to delete an app, right click it and there is an option to do so.
10) Pretty much no laptop these days has one of these.
So in conclusion, it appears that most of your evidence against these devices is either software that has now been fixed, or because it is cheap
or just lack of research. I urge you to try a new one with android app support such as the samsung plus.
i hate my crhomebook it can’t even EDIT and i’m tring to be a good youtuber but guess what? THE REC ON THE CRHOMEBOOK IS NOT EVEN GOOD IN FACT ITS TERRBIE
i hate my crhomebook it can’t even EDIT and i’m tring to be a good youtuber but guess what? THE REC ON THE CRHOMEBOOK IS NOT EVEN GOOD IN FACT ITS TERRBIE (AND I TRIED TO SEND THIS BUT MY CRHOMEBOOK WHOLD NOT LET ME!!!!!)
If I was limited to the top 10 reasons I hate Chromebooks, they’d have to be
1) Lack of a built in left click (and ALT + click does not a left click make…)
2) Constant crashes/freezes
3) Lack of even basic quality apps, like a timer or a stopwatch
4) Constantly trying to get me to install apps from the play store that are not even compatible
5) Surprisingly terrible battery life, especially on standby mode. My 4 year old smartphone does better
6) Constant glitching/lagging/jumping on all forms of video (YouTube, Hulu, downloaded files)
7) Need to be connected to the internet for almost anything
8) Painfulness of managing “normal” settings
9) God-aweful audio
10) People saying that you shouldn’t expect that much for $300…
Also, just as a warning to other potential buyers, I’m been using an Acer Chromebook 14 CB3-431.
I will admit, I have been using the same Chromebook for four years and the updates have improved it a bit. You can now type a google doc up and download it as a Word.doc. It’s not perfect but it’s better than no Word.doc at all. My mum got one and she loves it. But then again, she only uses it for Facebook etc.
My Walmart Samsung chromebook sucks big time. What a waste of money. My new 200.00 LG phone is not much better. The 2 cellphone and cbook dont play well together. Im going to through them in the trashtina
I have an Asus Chromebook because I needed it for school. it has been working well-ish for the passed year and i didn’t have any complaints about it. DIDN’T. well i do now. I’m really pissed off about not being able to download anything linkable to microsoft. also, grammarly doesn’t work on google docs which is so annoying. This Chromebook also doesn’t turn off, no matter how long i hold the power button or shut the screen, so i have to keep a charger plugged 24/7 so I don’t get low battery life.
I HATE MY CHROMEBOOK TO DEATH!!!!!!
The newer models are a lot better. I’ve had mine for four years now and it’s working better now after all of the software updates. For school, it’s probably grand. But when you get to college or university, you will need something with a lot more horsepower 🙂
If all you want to do is surf the web, then a chromebook is for you. You wish to do absolutely anything else, or use a program other than Chrome, then it is either impossible or just incredibly cumbersome and frustrating. If you are on a budget, I still recommend the cheapest $300 laptop over a $200 to $400 chromebook any day. You’ll get a lot more out of the cheapest laptop over the most expensive chromebook you can buy.
I just got a chromebook for Christmas. I don’t want to sound like a selfish bitch, but I hate it so much. Please God Please somehow enable me to get a windows laptop. This machine is worthless. I’m crying as I write this because it was a gift and I’m angry at myself for disliking it so much. I want to throw it through the wall.
Don’t feel bad about hating it. I’ve seen chocolate teapots that are more useful than the Chrome Book.
Yeah same this chromebook sucks
THIS CHROME SUCKS
Go to hell google demon
My school gave me a chromebook and its only made to run 1 thing over the web its so so slow. google docs deleted my whole essay once. Every time I try to dowload something it say error. It can’t read any type of file.
My friends and I went to the principle to ask for new computers. They told me to make a presentaiton, so I made one about how much I hate my chromebook.
The school told me to make a presentation, so I made one about how much I hate my chromebook. It took me ten minutes for this to post. That proves that this is slow.
I have to record videos for my job – and @ the nutcase saying “YouTube has a built in editor” – I’m an adult entertainer, should I be uploading p0rn to YouTube just to make it watchable on P0rnhub? Like damn it only records in MKV with no option to change anything and the picture/audio quality is shit! I did like the battery life (mine lasted 12 hours) but it lagged too much and the audio even started half-muting itself. Not worthy of the $200 price tag. Rather than try to resell this garbage, I smashed it to pieces.
The only nutjob here is you. The person who mentioned the YouTube editor was specifically replying to someone who complained about not being able to edit their YouTube videos. There’s no need for them to need a separate editor because YouTube already has one. Their comment had nothing to do with editing in general. It seems like most of you simply didn’t do your research. You expected s Chromebook to be just like a Windows machine when they never claimed to be. Part of the reason you don’t really have to worry about viruses on Chromebooks is because you can’t download a bunch of crap. As for your gross pornhub problems, perhaps you should invest in actual video and editing equipment instead of expecting a $209 Chromebook to suffice.
lmao my school got these and everything is online now because its corona time. google docs is a big thing, but guess what! NOPE. GOOGLE DOCS WONT EVEN LET ME TYPE. this doc doesnt even have a thousand words and it just goes lag lag lag. earlier today i was doing french work and it just randomly lagged out. i was trying to be patient and it loaded. di this three times and i just dropped it on the floor bc i was not in a good mood. i watched some youtube because i was like oh maybe it needs to charge! i let it charge for an hour and i was like oh 50 percent good enough. i go onto google docs and the page takes 20 minutes to load. its not my internet i have a strong connection to a 5g internet so idk whats up. i go and type once it load and it just doesnt work. wish i could rate zero stars, and this is one of the only products i have yelled swear words at like come on. google has a lot of money, why not make a good product?
What I dont like about my Chromebook is that the keyboard is flimsy and I have constant problems with different keys sticking for no valid reason. I have not spilled on it and I keep it safely in a laptop case when not in use. This week it is the h key that sticks so I have to pound on the keyboard to get that key to show up. Last week it was the l (ell) key. I cant stand the keyboard and the fact I avoid typing because of how it causes carpal tunnel. I cant wait to sell this thing. I use it for basic uses like email and posting comments but it has made my life hell and I cant stand it.
I hate my Chrome Book laptop so much. The reasons are many. It refuses to interface with many ordinary sites like a digital book from the public library. Come one. It doesn’t print. It’s so. slow. It’s always freezing up. It constantly sends you to the extensions page and google docs which won’t open. The list goes on.My husband bought this because it was cheap and he hated it, so he gave it to me since my coputer had crashed and I had no laptop and was grateful for something. This thing is worse than having nothing.
I did a bit of research before I bought a Chromebook. While it has turned out to be not so bad, it lacks compatibility with the world around it. Microsoft Office, web meetings, printers and scanners are all completely foreign to it. My biggest complaint is actually against the unethical practices of Microsoft. I pay for my Office 365 online subscription for the ability to be geo and device agnostic. But Microsoft seems to have deliberately turned key features in the Office 365 online environment.
I don’t like chromebooks because they always take forever to load even it takes me at least 30 minutes to wait until my chromebook works. Like this Loading…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….