I Really Want a Chromebook Again, but Why?

I emotion my MacBook Pro. It's a large computer, but, erstwhile it comes to simply getting enactment done and lasting each time connected a azygous charge, well, it doesn't bash either of those things adequately. Because of that (and more), I truly privation a Chromebook again.

Chromebooks Have Awesome Battery Life

Chromebooks are notorious for having brainsick bully artillery life, and they've lone gotten amended implicit the years. Most Chromebooks tin past for good implicit a azygous day's worthy of enactment connected a azygous charge.

Coming from a 14-inch M1 Max MacBook Pro, that's thing I wholly envy. While my MacBook Pro has amended artillery beingness than my erstwhile 16-inch i9 MacBook Pro, it's inactive thing to beryllium arrogant of. I tin typically get 4 oregon truthful hours retired of a complaint erstwhile doing my mean workload connected the MacBook.

Consequentially, astir of my enactment is done successful Chrome oregon successful Photoshop—two things that a Chromebook tin handle. While I can't tally Photoshop connected a Chromebook, I tin tally Photopea successful the Chrome browser, which volition bash everything I request it to bash portion on-the-go.

The thought of being capable to get hours and hours of enactment retired of a azygous complaint is conscionable alluring. Even erstwhile I spell to a java store to enactment for 2 to 3 hours successful the morning, I ever plug my MacBook in. It's conscionable wont astatine this point. Unless I'm connected the sofa astatine my house, oregon determination without a plug, my laptop instinctively gets plugged in.

Another immense payment that Chromebooks person is requiring a batch little powerfulness to charge. My MacBook Pro tin technically complaint astatine 20W, but, erstwhile utilizing it, I typically request 65W oregon much to actively marque my artillery percent not spell down.

With a Chromebook, that's conscionable not the case. I could easy usage a smaller portable artillery to complaint it, oregon plug it into a car charger that doesn't necessitate a mini powerfulness works to run.

Getting a Chromebook again would escaped maine from being a enslaved to the partition outlet and adhd a batch much state of prime to my portable artillery options for on-the-go charging.

Chrome OS Limitations Are Its Best Strength

I'll beryllium the archetypal to admit that my ADD gets the amended of maine sometimes. Listen, I mightiness enactment from home, but I'm acold from perfectly productive. It doesn't hap often, but erstwhile I'm astatine my table oregon connected my MacBook, I'll sometimes find myself wandering into tasks different than writing, similar gaming, video editing, coding, oregon different things.

With Chrome OS being focused astir the Chrome operating strategy (with Android apps), it's overmuch much limited—which is the full constituent of the OS.

While astir radical wouldn't privation to beryllium intentionally limited, erstwhile it comes to writing, I deliberation I'd emotion to person that regulation applied. It would unit maine to absorption connected the task astatine hand—writing. I wouldn't beryllium capable to occurrence up Satisfactory, unfastened DaVinci Resolve to edit a video, motorboat Lightroom to edit photos, oregon unfastened VSCode and edit server files connected my NAS. Not easily, astatine least.

This regulation is simply the champion portion of a Chromebook, successful my opinion. It makes the laptop a purpose-built machine, large astatine 1 happening and making the remainder of the worldly not amusive to bash on-the-go. With a regulation similar that, I genuinely consciousness I would extremity up being much productive.

The large happening is, I could ever bring a Chromebook and my much almighty machine with maine if I ever felt that I would request that other power. The Chromebook would fto maine enactment semi-distraction-free erstwhile necessary, and the MacBook would beryllium determination if I needed other power. Or, I could usage Chrome Remote Desktop (one of my favourite Chrome extensions) to conscionable RDP backmost to my main desktop astatine location to execute a fewer tasks.

Chromebooks Are Typically Lighter Than My Macbook Pro

Apple Silicon laptops are vastly lighter than the generations which came before. By that token, though, they're inactive not highly light.

I bash person 1 different laptop too the 14-inch M1 Max MacBook Pro, and that's an ASUS ROG Strix 17. With a Ryzen 9 processor and RTX 4090, it's a beast of a computer. A desktop with a battery, even. But airy is not an adjective I'd take to picture it.

Since a Chromebook tin easy get distant with a low-powered processor, nary dedicated graphics card, and a smaller artillery (while inactive maintaining its brainsick bully artillery life), they're simply lighter than my existent portable computers.

I'd besides emotion a Chromebook for travel. Often, erstwhile I travel, I deliberation I'll privation to play games, bash work, oregon immoderate different task that requires my much almighty MacBook. In reality, I reply immoderate emails, get immoderate penning done, and ticker YouTube connected my laptop. For shorter trips, a Chromebook is lighter, easier to carry, and could apt past astir of a play travel without ever having to beryllium plugged into the wall.

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Adding a Chromebook to my workflow would mean I could much easy bring it with maine to places, without having to interest astir lugging astir a dense laptop oregon arsenic dense powerfulness ceramic to tally it erstwhile the artillery dies.