- Hey there, Pete Moriarty here.
And in this video I'm going to be sharing
why I ditched this crazy crazy expensive
and amazing MacBook Pro,
and went back to my trusty old Chromebook.
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Now for anyone who's followed me for any amount of time,
you would know that I am the world's biggest Apple fanboy.
I've bought just about every device that Apple have produced
in the last 10 years.
I've lined up for iPhones.
I had the iPad shipped to me the day it was released.
I got the prerelease version.
And I'm in it.
I'm there with everything Apple.
But, in the last number of years,
as we've moved more and more into the Google world,
well, I've really given Chrome devices a go.
I started using, a year and a half ago, a Chromebook
as my primary device.
And, I was pleasantly surprised.
I thought, wow,
I didn't think I'd be able to get as much work done as I can
on a lower powered and lower cost device.
And I've been absolutely surprised.
Now, the new MacBook Pro's came out a little while ago.
And they've got the fancy new track pad,
which is great for my big hands.
And they've got the fancy little bar across the top.
Which lights up and it's all colorful.
I don't really feel for the keys that much.
They're a bit shallow for me.
But I wanted to buy one of these nicer models
because I shoot 4k video .
I like to edit films.
I've got a drone that I use for shooting with time to time.
And I kinda need grunt.
I need video editing grunt on my machine
if I wanna be able to travel
and also create personal films as well.
So, I bought this as a gift to myself
when I achieved a business milestone.
And I started using it.
But a couple a days in, I was extremely disappointed.
And what I found was,
when I was using this device,
even with super light use.
And I'm not talking about video editing,
I'm not talking about streaming,
I'm not talking about anything hardcore.
I'm talking about one Chrome browser open,
and a few tabs, let's say six, seven, eight tabs
at an absolute maximum.
I found I could only ever get four and a half
to maybe five hours worth of battery out of this machine.
And that shocked me.
For a machine that I spent nearly $5000 on,
this was only lasting four and a half odd hours.
And that was just--
That was crazy for me.
I mean, I've spec'd this out,
it's got 16 Gigabytes of RAM.
It's got the top of the line I7 processor.
I didn't tick every single box on Apple,
but it was nearly every box.
I've got all the dongles.
I spent my hundreds of dollars on dongles.
And this machine was getting about half the battery life
that I would regularly get on my day to day workhorse,
being my Chromebook.
And, yes sure, being that I wanted to buy this machine
to be able to travel and work with
and hopefully be able to make films as well,
while I was traveling,
it was a real let down,
because I found that,
as we were running our team conference
and I had everyone together,
this just didn't have enough charge to get through the day.
Whereas my Chromebook, I will regularly--
If I have a meeting in the city, you know,
go meet up with customers, go meet up with partners,
and do a whole days work
with sometimes out even needing to bring my charger with me
because it will regularly get a minimum of six hours,
sometimes eight,
sometimes even ten hours with very light use,
out of my Chromebook.
And to me that just seemed crazy.
Here's a machine that's nearly $5000.
Here's a machine that's less than a thousand bucks
and there was just that massive gap between the two.
And I decided I can't put up with this.
I have to return it.
As great as this machine is, as lovely as the track pad is,
as great as Apple's design is in everything else,
for me to make a commercial decision
to stick with that machine would just be wrong.
So here's some of the reasons why
I've really been enjoying the Chromebook and why now,
this has gone back to being my primary workhorse
and my primary machine.
Obviously the best thing about Chromebooks is,
they are low cost and they're a little bit lower powered,
which means that the battery lasts
a ridiculous amount of time.
Now, granted, they don't have a full operating system
like Mac OS or Windows,
so you can't install every app like Photoshop,
that you maybe used to with a full blown computer.
But what you can do is
make great use of the built in Chrome browser,
and so you can access anything on the Web.
You can also access all of your Google documents
and files offline as well,
because Google documents work offline
as long as you're working in Chrome.
But lastly, with Chrome apps and Chrome extensions,
you can get a lot done on your machine
without having to have access
to a full blown Mac or PC operating system.
Now, if you wanna record and edit your 4k drone footage,
no, this machine is not gonna be able to do that.
But, if you need to get work done while you're traveling,
hold video conferences, write emails,
connect to your documents, work with your team,
connect to Slack, connect to Zero
and do 99% of your day to day business work,
well, this is our strong recommendation
as the best business machine for business owners.
The great thing about it, it's less than a thousand bucks,
this one also comes with a touch screen.
It actually converts right over, it goes into tablet mode.
It's got a touch screen there as well.
And what I do like about this one is,
the keyboard is full size.
So, I've got big hands, great for me to type on.
So, if you make a decision about what computer to buy,
you know, why might you consider a Chromebook
over something like a Mac that you might be used to,
or even a Window's machine, or maybe a service book,
if that's what you've been using currently?
Well, the Chrome OS is automatically updating.
You get free updates for life from Google.
And every time an update is release,
it gets faster and faster.
Whereas older machines typically get slower and slower
until a new revision comes out on an operating system,
because they want you to upgrade
and buy more and more machines.
The other great thing about Chrome OS,
there's no viruses, there's no malware,
there's now crypto logger to encrypt all of your files
and demand bitcoin from you.
They just work and there's no need
for any extra apps like antivirus,
because the operating system is protected by Google,
with a secure hardware boot chip.
And what that means is,
every time the computer boots,
it verifies that it's running an authorized code
from Google, and if it's not running that code,
then it doesn't even boot.
So it's all automatically protected and secured.
Now you just use your Google account to log into it,
so if you're a subscriber to G suite,
it means that all of your stuff is there
as soon as you log into the machine.
Multiple people could use and share these machines,
which is very handy.
Especially if you wanna buy one and put it in the office
and give multiple staff access to it.
But, the thing I really love about this is
they're also super easy to manage and maintain
right from your G Suite administration console.
So, if you wanna push down some links,
so that all of your staff have the same bookmarks
on their Chrome profile,
if you wanna change the desktop background picture,
if you wanna even lock it down
so that people outside the business can't access the device,
or if this device is lost or stolen,
then you can remotely wipe it.
Well, you can do all of that from the G Suite console.
And using Chrome enterprise,
you pay a small licensing fee per year,
for each Chrome device.
You can even add additional Chrome management policies
on the actual device level.
Super super powerful device.
So if you haven't already,
please consider grabbing a Chromebook,
this has gone back to being my primary machine.
There are also many hardware makers who are coming out
with more and more powerful machines.
This has got four gig of RAM,
runs about six or eight tabs great,
but it won't run the 20 tabs
that a MacBook Pro will run concurrently.
So if you're the kind of person
who likes to have a million tabs open,
you might have to give a bit of a chance for minimalism
and try and cut down a little bit on what you're working on.
But there are higher powered Chromebooks coming out
all the time.
And Google have just announced their Pixelbooks,
which are coming out very soon.
We'll have information coming out on those
on an upcoming video.
This is the Asus C302CA,
and you can grab those in our store,
or have a chat to our sales team,
and they'll be able to help you out.
I'm Peter Moriarty, catch you next time.
Look forward to chatting in the next video.
Cheers.
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