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let's get one thing straight here i like Windows okay i mean i'm a nice guy like

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if i saw a chromebook shivering in the cold as it sat abandoned on a best buy

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demo rack i'd feel bad for it

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but given that there are Windows laptops and macbooks that can do everything a

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chromebook can do and more i just haven't seen any reason why i or pretty

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much anyone else who has real work to do would ever consider getting one

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that is until now

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because bam yep that is a complete Windows 10

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installation running inside chrome os

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absolutely perfect i like chromebooks now they're great

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but not so fast chromebook lovers you can't run Windows on just any old

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chromebook that's lying around in a third grade classroom this

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is the acer spin 713 it's a chromebook

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for big kids it's got a core i7 with 16

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gigs of RAM a nice high res 3x2 display

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a 10 hour battery and a military grade aluminum chassis whatever

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that means but really the big boy pants that it wears to the party is that it

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runs chrome enterprise a suite of business focused extra features like

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advanced security protections and device management for now enterprise

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chromebooks will be the only devices that you can officially infect with

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Windows 10. that's because this unnatural union is actually the result

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of a partnership between google and parallels the company that's best known

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for running operating systems inside other ones using virtual machines but

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make no mistake google isn't simply allowing parallels to bring Windows to

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the unwashed masses no no this alliance is meant to help chromebooks replicate

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in the business world the success that they've had in education and what better

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way than a sweet targeted exclusivity deal now that's not to say that running

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Windows apps on chrome os is a new idea

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options already exist for doing just that the problem is that they're

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at least a little janky the best one is crossover which lets you

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run individual Windows apps through the wine compatibility layer for Linux

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but the apps that we wanted to install using crossover weren't in their

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official list and the installation got stuck every time when you compare that

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to this well right off the bat parallels gets points

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for just running when you full screen this vm its

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resolution dynamically adjusts and if you never bump the screen edges with

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your mouse you might just be able to delude yourself into thinking this is

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just a regular Windows laptop

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if it wasn't for the confusing keyboard layout and the really low screen refresh

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rate as strange as it is to say though once

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you get used to that choppiness overall performance is

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actually not bad the Windows 10 version of geekbench

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delivered only a slightly worse score than the Android version using the same

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hardware here and photoshop was a lot

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more usable than it was on microsoft's own ARM-based surface pro x you might

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even be able to do some video editing in premiere if you keep the preview quality

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low of course these types of tasks are more specific

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to our needs as media professionals for

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enterprise users the ability to run fully featured versions of microsoft

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office will be far more attractive even if it's not quite as attractive as

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you'll be with our sick merch from lttstore.com parallels also offers

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crossos integrations that sweeten the experience

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shared folders are set up by default so you can easily access any file from

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either operating system chrome os printers are

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automatically accessible in Windows and you can also add Windows only devices if

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you want you can even set chrome os as the default browser in Windows so links

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will open in a new tab outside of parallels because using chrome inside of

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Windows vm inside chrome os

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would be a little silly wouldn't it while there's clearly some optimization

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that still needs to happen the fact that a chromebook is running a full fat

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installation of Windows 10 at all is a big deal chrome os has never supported

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fast kernel virtual machines presumably because google's original vision for the

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chromebook was as a simple portal to the web not as a bloated computer that you

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could defile with something as clunky as Windows

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but that vision has apparently changed as has the hardware

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parallels owes its chromebook venture to the fact that newer chromebooks are

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coming with specs that would have been absolutely unheard of in the early days

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they're not just for students and the tech illiterate anymore they are for

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serious business too and serious business frankly requires something more

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than a celeron of course being able to access Windows should appeal to any

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chromebook user with or without the serious business mostly because chrome

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os by itself just still kind of sucks

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it's come a long way since the start i mean it's had support for Android apps

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since 2016 and the ability to run Linux apps since 2019 which is impressive for

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an os that google bragged didn't run any apps when it launched i mean you can

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even install Linux versions of firefox vivaldi or brave and not even use the

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chrome browser at all on a chromebook that's a hilarious prank to play on our

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old friend google but despite its transformation from literally just a

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browser to an actual operating system the fact remains that chrome os is just

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missing support from many professional apps and pretty standard enthusiast

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features as for the support that is there again

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it's kind of jank like our chrome enterprise installation just refused to

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connect to our servers for file sharing here at the office even though we

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repeatedly asked it to very nicely i mean don't get me wrong the simplicity

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of chromebooks is perfect for people who ain't got time for that but it's

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definitely not for the linuses of the world

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so having Windows on your chromebook is an imperfect way then to fill in some of

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those holes in chrome os's functionality at least for now

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ultimately google really should fill these holes in themselves if they're

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going to convince anyone that these things truly are the future but they're

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certainly trying in an interview with the verge a google rep likened chrome os

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to a state-of-the-art home theater setup and Windows to the dusty vcr that you

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keep around to play those old home videos um

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i believe this is what the zoomers refer to as a bra moment

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anyway though google if your plans for the future still involve this wacky

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keyboard layout you can count me out uh honestly i need to talk about this for a

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second chromebooks have a search key which fulfills sort of a similar role to the

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Windows key or the command key on a mac but instead of putting it on the bottom

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left where we're all used to it being they make the control and alt keys super

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huge and put the search key where your caps lock usually is

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i mean sure you can press alt search and activate caps lock and alt backspace to

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forward delete since the delete key is also missing but

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uh-oh neither of these shortcuts work in Windows 10 because pressing alt

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highlights the menus i meant to convey that i was mad about this and that i was

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yelling but there's no caps lock google

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i don't want a line graph also acer this

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trackpad unusable it just doesn't register small

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movements and can even move the cursor backwards sometimes like i love all the

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ports the keyboard the screen just get

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rid of this part thanks anyway though

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whether i like it or not that chromebook dominated future may actually be a

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possibility while Windows laptops saw some growth in 2020 probably due to that

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pandemic thing that growth was absolutely dwarfed by the increase in

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sales of chromebooks which already dominate the education market and i'm

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going to make a similar point to the one that i made in our pixel book go review

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if google can penetrate the enterprise market now with that baked in Windows

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support see that they'll be laying the groundwork for a

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future where kids who have used chromebooks their whole life in school

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grow up enter the workforce and choose the laptop they're

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more familiar with so there we go i guess

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that's the reason Windows isn't available on non-enterprise chromebooks

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google's shooting themselves in the foot if they let students get used to Windows

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