My 2018 Pixel Slate with a 'slow' (ultra-low-power) Intel Y series processor runs Chrome OS as fast as my newest 2020 Intel 10th Generation quad-core laptops run Windows 10. My Pixelbook Go and Pixel Slate boot up faster than my smartphones and, needless to say, faster than my Windows 10 laptops and MacBooks.Ĭhrome OS + Chromebook = efficiency + great battery lifeĬhromebooks age well. Pretty much everything is taken care of in the background.Ī Chromebook boots up instantly from a cold shutdown. You're not constantly hassled by updates and reboots (think: Windows 1o and macOS). The Chromebook platform is secure, stable, and self-maintains. Not better or worse than Windows or macOS, just different.Ĭhrome OS is secure without the hassle: no constant updates Google has its own way of storing photos, aka Google Photos. The good news is, the memory muscle you use for those editors can be tweaked (in a couple of days) for Chrome OS apps like Pixlr, Polarr, and Adobe Photoshop Express, among others.Īlso, Apple iCloud photos and photos on Microsoft’s OneDrive can be accessed from the Chrome browser on a Chromebook. This can be a hurdle for users wedded to a Windows or a MacBook photo editor.
