Further Thoughts on the Googlebook, in Comparison to the MacBook Air

I’ve had the Googlebook now for a couple of weeks, and I have gotten a chance to both use it on a regular basis, and compare it with the MacBook Air I have (it sports an M4 processor). One of the things that I was curious about is which of them I would end up using more often, and which I would prefer over the other, if indeed there was a preference at all. I’m not going to stretch this out for you: I prefer the MacBook Air over the Googlebook. This is because of a number of factors, some relating to software and some relating to hardware. The Googlebook is a fine little machine, and I’m mostly happy to own it, but it is not entirely baked, and it shows. For a day-to-day use case, the Mac Air is still the one that I reach for. This is not just theoretical: I was actually away this weekend for a convention in the Denver area. At first, I gave some thought to taking the Googlebook, but at the last minute I made the switch to the Mac Air. I was worried about things like connectivity…