These days, you can get some pretty expensive Chromebooks, with higher prices than a shiney new M2 MacBook Air. The real work is done on a server, with documents also stored in the cloud, enabling the use of Chromebooks with very little power or on-board storage. The secret to their efficiency is that the apps are essentially just wrappers for websites.
The original vision of Chromebooks was that they would be cheap, low-powered laptops, making them accessible to a much wider range of people than Macs or Windows PCs. That’s true, but I’d still suggest that most owners of older Macs shouldn’t do it … Chromebooks You can even run Chrome OS from a USB key if you’re not sure whether you want to remove macOS.Ĭhrome OS is designed to be an extremely lightweight operating system, which can breathe new life into older hardware that is struggling to keep up with today’s demands.
We assure you, as soon as Safari ships with an updated build of WebKit powering it, we'll be testing all over again.Although it’s been possible for some time to turn an old Mac into a Chromebook, Google has now made the process easier than ever. And incidentally, WebKit isn't a browser - it's an engine that powers a browser. All we're doing here is taking a look at how the product currently performs, and nothing more. Once released as a finished product, it'll get tested again. Once released as a beta, it'll get tested again. What we're doing here is comparing how the browser works now in comparison to other products. Update: Some readers point out that Chrome 4.0 on OS X is still in pre-alpha stages of development and shouldn't be compared to final products. Frequent crashes and the lack of some rudimentary functionality means there's still a fair way to go before we start advising Average Joseph to haul ass into the OS X world of Chrome.īut it's getting there, and we reckon there's only a few more months of development to go before it's ready to go public, at least as a beta.
You'd be forgiven for thinking version 4.0 of any piece of software meant it was sufficiently far through its developmental cycle to recommend, but it's really, really not.
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