!! VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE - 1/11/2020 !!

In the fall of 2019, the largest manufacturers of Windows driven Laptops like HP, Lenovo, Dell, Acer, and Asus were also producing lower cost Chromebooks for online and retail sales.

These companies have very successfully held a corner in the PC market for several decades now. Does anyone remember what happened to Gateway Computers? They didn't last long term as the competition eventually consumed them and called them "Acer". But who really owns or controls Acer, and why is there still a teeny tiny website called "http://www.gateway.com/worldwide/" that nary any of us think about when shopping for computers these days??? Who do they sell to? Who keeps them in business and why?

By producing Chromebooks for public consumption, these manufacturers were actually competing against their own higher priced windows machines, and that created a commercial tension that has seemingly, finally snapped!!

In the early to mid 2019 time frame, these large, and very controlling manufacturers started removing Solid State Hard Drives from new Chromebooks.

They replaced them with "eMMC storage", a far slower hard-drive-like storage system without reducing the established pricing or disclosing the loss in performance to consumers.

eMMC storage as a replacement for a Solid State Drive is FIVE TIMES SLOWER than Solid State Drives and much lower cost to these manufacturers.

Question: Is it possible to believe these Laptop Manufacturing companies and the professionals who lead them didn't realize exactly how bad this switch out was going to affect the machine performance when put to the test with CT Browser Sets (custom tabbed browser sets)? Remembering that these companies and the professionals that lead them have had the market "co-petitively" cornered for a few decades now...

OR

Question: Is it reasonable to believe executives at the top of these companies knew the exact impression the sluggishness would create in the conscious and/or subconscious minds of consumers who would be purchasing them with the intention of seeking permanent relief from their gnarly grasp during the Windows 7, End of Life event which was transpiring on 1/14/2020?

Honestly, it clearly looks as if they had collectively put a scheme into motion at least 12 months prior that was designed to pospone the inevitable LONG TERM LOSSES they were soon to face due to a rising UNIX marketplace, but you'll need just a little more information to see this the same way.

This apparent collaboration by all the Vendors was a fatal commercial mistake in-deed, but to be fair, it appears as if a true case of the Karmic Chicken Flu had been injected into their game!

Karmic Chicken is a game in which the deeds of individual people and/or the companies they've energetically created eventually lead them into dead end corners with depressed ethical and legal mindsets. When the corners finally get found, the players will always eventually realize there are no more good options -- and at that point, things always get interesting!!

In the world of addiction, we talk a lot about "hitting bottom". In the world of Karma, it's all about that terrifying corner where there is seemingly no longer any good moves left. It's like being put in "check" in the game of "chess", that always eventually leads to "check mate", but seldom without an exciting final few moves!

and all option lead to some kind of traumatic event with a negative outcome. The good news is that once the pinning in is complete, and the realization that this is always a zero sum game, reparations can be made and

And for what it's worth, there is no known vaccine for the Karmic Chicken Flu at this time and in fact, one of the upcoming rounds may in-deed be related to the Vaccine Manufacturers themselves! And you don't want to miss that bout!

All the Laptop Manufacturers made the recent Chromebook marketing descriptions appear as if eMMC was a new normal, when in fact it was a huge cost cutting step and a stone age throwback for no decrease in price to the consumer.

In fact, in retail settings like Best Buy, the price on Chromebooks started climbing by 50 to 100% in the second half of 2019 as the machines got gutted -- it seems they were trying to use the perception of a new (eMMC) and not-better industry wide storage system as the impetus.

Suspiciously, all the Laptop Manufacturers came to market with these dramatically watered down devices at nearly the same time, which is not commercially natural. In a competitive market, one should have been capitalizing on the other for the sub-par swap out, not following step...

These vendors include HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, Asus, Samsung, and maybe more...

They all seemed to make the hardware switch simultaneously in what would surely appear to be a very collusive and predatory manner.

eMMC storage is FIVE TIMES SLOWER than solid state drives.

If Manufacturers thought this change in drive storage wouldn't be easy to detect, it's because they didn't test it with custom tabbed browser sets (aka CT Browser sets).

CT Browser sets that took 15 to 30 seconds to load with 5 to 10 tabs are now taking 90 to 150 seconds with eMMC storage devices.

The performance hack becomes transparent, startling, and obvious with numbers like this. And when everyone cheats in the wrong direction, it gives away the game! We have more on this in other parts of the website.

Custom Tabbed Browser sets were used by some of us in the 2015 time frame to choose between 2GB of ram vs 4GB of ram when the first Chromebooks with Solid State Drives came out. It was a fairly standard performance test that these Manufacturers seemingly had no clue about OR presumed they had scrubbed from Youtube well enough...

Unsurprisingly, the Youtube videos that showed performance comparisons with Custom Tabbed Browser Sets are now impossible to find.

There are a handful of 10 to 15 minute long (suspiciously long) Chromebook performance comparison videos online related to this older RAM topic, but they all cleverly avoid showing the digital load created by opening a group of tabs at one time.

And the short video I used years ago to realize the differences back then is seemingly no where to be found anymore?

Odd indeed.

If I didn't know better, I'd think some technology folks had been paying some other technology folks to make comparative videos that omit the one test that can be used to detect true processing speeds of Chrome O/S devices beyond the shadow of a doubt. Kind of like they've done with Password Managment software option videos too -- with a thread of common business owners underlying much of this...

The clever-est marketing often times revolves around burying the good stuff with a lot of comparable copy cats that omit just a single key piece or two. An age old strategy for covering up the buttery best in plain view.

In late fall 2019, Two Small Business People related to me purchased two watered down Acer Chromebooks before we figured out what was going on.

We had started out our buying spree several years prior when we found 15" Acer Chromebooks with Solid State Drives and 4gb of RAM in the $325 price range. Oddly back then, Acer was the only manufacturer with a 15" option. Thankfully, they worked quite well with this configuration. Our group purchased about 5 of those machines without issue over a 2 year period.

In the past four months, two more Acer's were bought and that's when the troubles started.

One purchaser had had his Acer POS (piece of shit) for several months before we realized what was going on. He thought the speed problems were related to a business website he was using and/or his network. By the time we realized what was going on it was too late to return it.

He's now got a nice toy that serves very basic purposes only. It is generally useless for business but he can browse the internet one simple webpage at a time with it...

The other Acer that was purchased under this confusion got returned to Amazon the very day we figured out what was going on with more clarity.

Upon returning that one, we found one of the last remaining Chromebooks with a 15" monitor and a Solid State Drive on Amazon. It was an Asus product (vs Acer). Upon delivery, it performed as the prior Acers had with the same specs and thus the eMMC drives had been exposed.

This mischief put us on a mission to fix this problem quickly and permanently, which we are doing now with basic technology education along side of basic commercial manipulation education, cartel style.

If you can't find a Chromebook with a Solid State Hard Drive in it from the Big Manufacturers, don't buy any devices from them at all until they provide appropriate and significant reparations. As of now, you don't need them anymore and they likely didn't even fully realize it until now either.

You can convert a used PC or Mac, desktop or laptop, with either an older eSata Drive or a Solid State Drive to a Chrome O/S device with the help of your local IT store for $80 to $100.

If you are tech oriented and you'd like to do this conversion yourself for a savings of $80-100, that is now in the cards too. We provide pointers to resources for that elsewhere in the website.

At this point in this eMMC story, I'm most interested in legal discovery related to a group of hardware manufacturers that ended up with identical, sub-par offerings in the marketplace at the same time.

Seems we have a Technology Hardware Cartel running wild and unchecked on a higher plane, although some of us have known that for a very, very, very long time...