er4din · HackerTrans

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My school used chrome books and one of my classmates ((sixth form)last 2 years of high school for Americans) literally took it apart and reassembled it again to replace a certain part after it fried and he didn’t want to pay for another one, he found the chip code and bought it from Amazon. That guy is in uni for compsci now,

er4din

4 lata temudiscuss

Yeah aren’t the machines themselves made by Lenovo?

Google just makes the chromeOs?

er4din

4 lata temudiscuss

I went to a school where we used chrome books. We paid a 500 euro deposit I believe upfront and signed a contract that obliged us to use the machine appropriately and that any damage resulting from failing to do so is our fault yada yada. By the end of the curriculum the computer moves into being our own property and the school wipes it from the network so to speak and it’s factory reset.

The reality is that at this point it’s a piece of old junk that no one wants since it’s been in constant use for like 4 years, and yes I went to a privileged school which hopped onto the idea as soon as it was publicly available.

I talked to our it department and they confirm the fact that chrombooks make the back end work of the it department so so so much easier, as does the rest of the google interface. They no longer deal with individual account backups, data storage and network access, being able to focus on what is accessible from the school network and solving hardware problems with the machines themselves, as well as some additional maintenances on PC systems that were present I. Every classroom dedicated to each teacher which we’re not chrome books but ran windows 7 instead, up until a year or 2 ago I believe.

Chrome books have an arguably larger upfront cost bit a reduced maintenance cost which may make them more economical depending on the scale you work on and you budget. As I said I went to a privileged school with around 1k kids as of last year I believe so it may have been a good choice there, the school is not in Denmark btw.

I personally am more interested in knowing what are the alternative options to the chrome books that denmarkian schools can switch to now that chrome books are out of the picture, because let’s face it, we’re not going to back to pen and paper days because of this. I found some HP made notepads that run windows 10 and are visually resembling chrome books in addition to being in the same price range of 400 euro. Does anyone have any better guesses as to what the switch could be made to?

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