By Christopher Dawson, ZD Net
It’s not perfect, but the Chrome notebook begs to be used for 1:1 in a school that has embraced Google Apps for Education as their collaboration platform of choice. Technology pundits have been all over the board on Google’s new Chrome Notebooks. They love it, they hate it, they don’t know what to do with it, they don’t know who will use it, they don’t know if the world is ready for it. Most of them cite completely valid concerns, challenges, and prospects for Google’s operating system and the upcoming notebooks/netbooks on which it will run. I wrote last week that I expected Chrome OS to be a game-changer in terms of 1:1 computing and now, having used the demo Cr-48 that Google sent me as my primary computer for a few days now, I can say that this is the closest I’ve ever seen to an ideal student computer for secondary school 1:1 deployments.
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