I have a few (non technical) friends who have chrome books and *love* them. I've been thinking of getting a Pixel to replace my MacBookPro in about a year (hopefully the 2nd Gen Pixels will be out by then). But I have noticed a few things that you'll want to be sure of before you go with a chromebook. First of all make sure your printer is cloud ready or at least wirelessly accessible. if so your chrome book will work with it like magic otherwise it can be a lot of work to get them to work together. While you can work offline on a chromebook, my understanding is that you have to download several apps to make them work that way so you'll want high speed internet access at least for configuring. Finally there isn't a lot of storage space on the chrome books themselves as they expect to be able to access the cloud. I have two 2 terabyte hard drives that are intranet aware so I doubt this would be an issue for me. But something to keep in mind. On Jul 7, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Betty I wrote:
> Hi all; > (I used to be the lady that was 'nice penguin @ webcanine dot com' but had to > change my email so now I have this one.) > We lost our house in Yarnell to the fire last weekend and are staying in > Phoenix. But you guys have always been good for information on computer stuff > in general, so i thought i'd ask here first. > > We have good insurance, and it is going to cover replacement cost for our > computers up there. They were old, pentium III's that i had put ubuntu on and > were great desktops. but i am thinking that since we don't do a lot of > computer intense work up there, just surf online and read emails, that maybe > it would be better to just get laptops. Then i was thinking maybe of getting > a chromebook instead of a 'regular' laptop; but my son said that those are > all 'cloud ' based. > > But does that mean that they have no functionality if we're not online? > > What do you guys think? > I have time, since it's going to take about 4 months to get a new > manufactured home up there :( > > also, OT, i did just finish an html class and made my final project a few > webpages with photos of the place and the fire stuff. of course, we haven't > been allowed back up there but we're hoping for early this week. > > http://ipmarizona.com/eclass/before.html > > well, thanks for any ideas. > betty i > > -- > webcanine.com > information for people > who care for dogs > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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