SharpLance

ComputerWorld's article on the speed of Google's patches to the Chrome and ChromeOS vulnerabilities within 48 hours of revelation serves as a reminder on why one may want to consider using a Chromebook if internet security is a high priority. No device is completely safe but some are harder than others to exploit. No company has closed vulnerabilities as quickly as Google did after the recent Pwn2Own and Pwnium hacking events.

Every year, especially in the United States, many basketball fans follow the NCAA March Madness tournament. NCAA has set up a 2014 March Madness website  [NCAA.com] to allow people to watch the games with statistics. The point of this blog is to point out that the video works beautifully on the old Samsung Chromebook without any shutter (Samsung 5 Series 550 3G with an Intel Celeron chip - see chip specs here [Intel.com]). If getting a newer Chromebook, I would make sure the chip performance is at least at par or better than the above mentioned Chromebook.

The Chromebook is still being used for basic browsing and Netflix. Yesterday I had my first mishap with the device. The battery was running low so I fumbled around in the dark looking for the power port and accidentally moved a developer switch. I didn't know such a switch existed on the Chromebook so I was surprised the following day to see my Chromebook fail to boot. It took a long time to find the switch because the icon near it looks like the place where you plug in a lock. For fun, I had other people look for the switch as well. None could find it so far.