What's good about it? What do you do with it? Will you buy another one?
Do You Use a Chromebook?
shaybisc on 15/03/2017 - 09:35
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What's good about it?
Runs almost flawlessly, startup is near instant, great battery life, fast charge time, can output to TV, can run android apps on it now, it's not a tablet.What do you do with it?
The same thing that 90% of people who use the fruit branded device would use it for, but at a fraction of the cost: browsing, email, YouTube, writing.Will you buy another one?
I was gifted it by a very generous mate who received the second hand fruit device from his wife. I was looking to buy one up until that point. I will buy another eventually, but with at least a 1080p IPS screen or similar to complete the experience.I'm trying to convince myself but I've just thought of another negative.
You get 100GB of free Google Drive storage free for 2 years- $47 USD value- but then you are up for that cost forever.
I suppose that leaves me no worse off than I am now if I don't want to pay- store on external hdd.
Only if you are putting all your files on Google Drive. ChromeOS has connectors for OneDrive, DropBox, Windows share, SFTP drives, etc — so you are not limiting of putting files on Google Drive.
some Chromebooks have SD card slots so you can store on that too
Brilliant answers, always wanted to know what they were good at.
Saw some cheap prices when tricky dicky shut down
Thank you for the info, great help.
Yep, love it. Encrypted and cheap so use it for travel, hospital stays, anywhere I don't want to take my more expensive laptop. Does everything I want except 1Password - also use paperspace.io to 'run' windows :)
I wonder what % of people buy an expensive laptop when a Chromebook would suffice. Love my chromebook and never needed anything more in 4 years. They keep getting better too.
Yes. Acer C720 and Asus C100.
Simplicity. Almost maintenance free. Very fast bootup time and the OS updates automatically with very little down time. Inexpensive and long-lasting battery.
Almost everything, as I work inside the browser most of the time. With crouton you can easily install a chroot Linux which takes care all my coding & sysadmin needs. I don't much video / image /sound manipulation/production work though, but I think with limited storage space it would be difficult on a Chromebook. Nor do I game on it, although with C100 it can run many Android games even with Bluetooth or Xbox wireless controller.
If I need one, then definite yes. Both mine are going strong though.