Chroembook vs. the world

I've never been much of a fan of Chromebooks, so I decided to compare my school issued chromebook to ThinkPad T520 from 2011.

Watch the Video

If you haven't come here from the video, you should really watch it!

WebGL Aquarium

This one's pretty basic, so I was kind of impressed that the Chromebook only made it to 1,000 fish. The ThinkPad T520 Looks like it's stealing candy from a baby

Google Octane

I know Octane is a bit out of date at this point, but it seemed fair to test a Chromebook with Google's own benchmark

Speedometer 3.0

The spiritual successor to Octane

Webpage Loading Speed

This is a device literally made to browse the web, and it can bareley even load the New York Times.

Startup Speed

Not a surprise here that the Thinkpad took the longest, given that it's the only tested machine with a spinning hard drive.

YouTube Playback

Literally the bare minimum

The Real Laptops

I was curious about the performence differences between all the non-chromebooks

Geekbench 6

Just remember that often times, benchmarks such as Geekbench don't actually show real world performance. The main thing to remember is that multi-core is almost always more important in productivity tasks like web browsing.