[Porsche-O-Phile]

Chrome books are made by google. That's all I need to know. I'll never own one nor would I let my kids use one. EVERYTHING with Google is about data collection, storage, analysis and resale. I deliberately keep myself off their grid as much as possible and employ a few tools to help mess up digital footprint trails. I figure the longer that kids can be kept out of google's databases the better. With all things there is a cost and I have a suspicion that with the chrome books it's unfettered streams of data collection about your kids' computer use habits and internet use in particular going straight into google's big database of info. to sell to whoever wants it. There's no upside to this as I see it - kind of like facebook.

Yes, I realize that we're all going to be profiled to some extent but I believe in not giving "big data" an easy one inch to deliberately make it as difficult and as expensive as possible for them to collect information on me. I'm certainly not going to sell out my kids' privacy to save a few bucks on a laptop.