Chromebooks don’t run Skype, Photoshop, Minecraft and some surprisingly common video CODECs are not supported. But from a mainstream perspective at least they do almost everything else better than PCs. There is a fundamental reason for this – Chromebooks are designed to run as cloud computers not simply computers that sometimes use bits of the cloud.
This often makes them harder to use as legacy devices (opening those video files for instance) but arms them with important advantages for the sort of computing world consumer computing and perhaps even business could be moving towards. In future, this model might also be able to support application streaming of the sort
suggested by Adobe. If that comes ot pass, Chromebooks will offer a mostly online idea of computing with an offline mode. Today's PC's sell themselves on the opposite notion.
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