Chromebook

[Buckman]

Recently I purchased a smartphone and it had a free gift with it, a Chromebook. Actually at time of purchase, I never realised there was a free gift. Anyway last week the very basic Chromebook arrived, but I could only check it out over the weekend. Now I know why it was given away as a free gift as everything seems to be linked into Google. Now got to find a new home for it as neither of the grand kids want it either. Probable donate it to the Salvation Army or British heart Foundation.

 

[GUMPY]

eBay is your friend.

 

[Hutch]

We have an Acer Chromebook, find it great, nothing wrong with Google. Great battery life, does what it states on the box.
It's nice not to be linked to Windows.

 

[Jcloughie]

I have not used a Chromebook. But the way I see it is this. Google tried to get ahead of the rest by introducing a dumb’ish web based terminal that depended on data residing in the cloud, and the specialist software also running in the cloud and being paid for by subscription.

So there will always be monthly subscriptions depending on what software and how much storage was needed.

Many people do this now but from not so dumb terminals.

When at work, I did similar with my job. In that I could access my work remotely. But I had greater flexibility in that I could use and save locally, or at work. Use my own software, or specialist stuff held on international servers, and also collaborate.

Makes me tired just thinking about it.

Seems that Google were ahead of the curve. But not sure how useful one would be domestically, particularly with suspect WiFi.

John