We are adding more pcs to our place. I heard a lot of good things about andoid pcs lately. But I am still not sure as windows are still most common.

Currently we have many windows and some Mac desktops and touch screen devices.
My experience with mac is quite new. Should i consider Android pcs? Can they network better than Mac to Windows?

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What is your main purpose of using these PCs? Android PCs do not have a lot of the Windows equivalent software. You can find Microsoft Office and other popular tools but something more specific or custom made for Windows is going to give you a problem.

I've seen some offices run completely on android machines by using Citrix Receiver, which is a virtual environment that hosted on a Citrix farm, able to handle anywhere from 5 to 50 concurrent users per farm depending on how powerful the hardware is.

I got confused when one administrator who use to work with me last year said to consider android pc. We use ms office 10 (excel and word)and illustrator and online a lot. Most of the people here prefer windows but would like to try android over Mac.

I think you should be okay to go with Android if thats the requirements. Those apps are available on Android and online tools basically works the same everywhere with some really minor exceptions.

Why don't you download a tool like Bluestacks and try to work with it? Bluestacks is an Android emulator you can install on your Windows machine to run android applications. It is not the same as a Chrome Book kind of thing but you can get a feel of the limitations. Your experience will come from the apps itself, not the OS since Android OS is useless without the apps.

http://www.bluestacks.com/

Also Mac and Android are 2 entirely different things. Mac OSX laptops are made to function like laptops. It beats Android anytime. You might face difficulty converting windows users to Android though.

I tried your idea. Feeling slightly unstable or slow. Maybe I should install it in a separate partition?

I don't think it will make much difference. It depends on the specs that the hosting computer has. If you have enough RAM and a fairly good processor, it should run smoothly.

The laptop I used Bluestacks on ran well enough when I dedicated at least 4GB of RAM just for it. Emulation isn't perfect so you'll see some instabilities here and there. Running Android on a supported device will be a much better experience.

I have 8gB ram on most pcs.




What about those HP android only pc?

Are they worth considering?

Not really sure. Personally I had one HP Chromebook from a few years ago that my company got for testing. It does whatever it was meant to do but ultimately, it was not enough as the Android interface back then was not good enough to convince Windows users to switch over.

All the Google apps worked fine for me. I tested with Microsoft Office apps and Google Drive. Web based apps ran good too but somehow, it just felt like a lot was lacking compared to Windows.

In the end, we just used it for Citrix Receiver to access a virtual Windows session.

One things for sure though, I did not experience any lag throughout my use of the Chromebook.

Better get Windows for safety and convenience .
Even the pc is spoil can take out hard disk and slap into another pc no file lose .

Android dont have adobe illustrator .

Can buy 1 for testing if you really want to try .

This post has been edited by xyrotix: May 19 2016, 04:15 PM

Android is free. Lacking in what?

I suppose Windows is still no 1 in versatility?

Good idea. Buy one to try first.

I thought they have similar adobe programs for android?

Better buy Windows PCs if you use Microsoft Office and other productivity software like Adobe. The thing is many Android Apps are lightweight meaning not a full-featured app.

Here is the feedback that I got from users:

Cannot Alt-Tab between screens
Right clicks practically non-existent in Android not that it matters anyway.
Can't save files into local storage, have to depend on cloud storage
Printer support is bad. Only works with wireless printers
Heavily internet dependent
Some software limitations if the product you want is not available on Google.

Back to windows for the daily admin work then

its laggy and unstable. every few days it force you to donate or download some apps

Yeah its pretty much shit if you want to use it for a company environment. It's okay to test and get a feel for it though.

I don't use it anymore. The newer versions are flooded with rubbish.

That's how Google makes money. Provide free software but with ads everywhere.

Bluestacks is by google?

No. It is an independent company. There are many other Android emulators like Ami Duos. What I mean is that for the free software model to succeed they use ads to finance their operation. Like you watch free to air TV stations, radio.