| Chromebook 11:42 - Apr 23 with 1964 views | unbelievablue |
Anyone with one want to give an honest review? |  |
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| Chromebook on 11:57 - Apr 23 with 1950 views | RedWhiteAndBLUE |
My in-laws have one and asked me to help out when they got stuck recently. I couldn't do much at all with It, I'm probably too used to Microsoft. I hate Google Chromebook with a passion I'm afraid. |  | | |
| Chromebook on 12:11 - Apr 23 with 1941 views | newcastleblue |
| Chromebook on 11:57 - Apr 23 by RedWhiteAndBLUE |
My in-laws have one and asked me to help out when they got stuck recently. I couldn't do much at all with It, I'm probably too used to Microsoft. I hate Google Chromebook with a passion I'm afraid. |
I've been using one for about four years now and also my kids have them for schoolwork. The downsides are well documented in that you are working in the cloud, so need wifi connection. Also depends onwhat you want it for - runnning third party programmes, photo editing software, games etc would not be appropriate
However, if it is for basic "office" functions - word processing, spreadsheets etc , or browsing the web, I think it is fantastic
The major benefiits are -
Easy on/off - even though my chromebook is over four years old, it still opens and is ready to go in about 5 seconds
No need for expensive antivirus software
No annoying windows updates to slow you down
Horses for courses and all that, but buying a chromebook was the best decision I ever made re computers.
Hope that helps |  | | |
| Chromebook on 12:40 - Apr 23 with 1899 views | Townly |
Love mine to bits (Toshiba) but use it mainly for surfing and emailing .... when it is excellent, super quick and safe. No need for an expensive anti-virus.
I use my Windows laptop for more complicated things like printing (it was complicated for me on the Chromebook) photo processing and all spreadsheet and letter writing stuff.
You can get a decent one for around £200 nowadays.
I have been advised that HP Chromebooks are to be avoided, especially the 11" (charging problems) but no personal experience.
Finally, using Chrome introduced me to Hangouts for cheap, cheap calls and the rest. | | | |
| Chromebook on 12:43 - Apr 23 with 1890 views | hype313 |
| Chromebook on 12:40 - Apr 23 by Townly |
Love mine to bits (Toshiba) but use it mainly for surfing and emailing .... when it is excellent, super quick and safe. No need for an expensive anti-virus.
I use my Windows laptop for more complicated things like printing (it was complicated for me on the Chromebook) photo processing and all spreadsheet and letter writing stuff.
You can get a decent one for around £200 nowadays.
I have been advised that HP Chromebooks are to be avoided, especially the 11" (charging problems) but no personal experience.
Finally, using Chrome introduced me to Hangouts for cheap, cheap calls and the rest. |
No need for expensive anti-virus anyway, just get free versions of Avast or another. |  |
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| Chromebook on 16:00 - Apr 23 with 1834 views | rosseden |
i have a number of locations (business) and at home, have been on laptops for years, but on someones advice middle of last year moved two sites to chromebooks.
We moved them back to laptops last month.
Fine for basic home use, a few emails, bit of browsing, but anything more laboured, and they just arent up to it in my opinion.
Nightmare to print from, using cloud based documents realigns margins and print areas, so you cant print very easily.
Its essentially a tablet with a keyboard, so if you can make do with a tablet and keypad, then a chromebook will probably also do the job well. |  |
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| Chromebook on 17:48 - Apr 23 with 1793 views | RedWhiteAndBLUE |
| Chromebook on 16:00 - Apr 23 by rosseden |
i have a number of locations (business) and at home, have been on laptops for years, but on someones advice middle of last year moved two sites to chromebooks.
We moved them back to laptops last month.
Fine for basic home use, a few emails, bit of browsing, but anything more laboured, and they just arent up to it in my opinion.
Nightmare to print from, using cloud based documents realigns margins and print areas, so you cant print very easily.
Its essentially a tablet with a keyboard, so if you can make do with a tablet and keypad, then a chromebook will probably also do the job well. |
It was the printing issue my in-laws asked for my help with, hence my negative comments earlier. | | | |
| Chromebook on 17:58 - Apr 23 with 1778 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
I brought one as I don't love the surface from work. It's got good and bad things.
Good - battery life, and speed as it is all cloud based. I really like it for traveling. It's a great option if you want a cheap machine with fast connectivity.
Bad - the missing things on the keyboard annoy me and seem unnecessary. No windows can be a pain for some work docs. |  | | |
| Chromebook on 20:28 - Apr 23 with 1698 views | rosseden |
| Chromebook on 17:48 - Apr 23 by RedWhiteAndBLUE |
It was the printing issue my in-laws asked for my help with, hence my negative comments earlier. |
i probably spent two days trying to solve it, googlecloudprint, samsungcloudprint and about ten other ways i found online, and couldnt get any of them working properly. In the end i found a way, and then it reset all the margins from the cloud stored docs, so they came out all screwy. at that point I gave up.
When laptops are as cheap as they are now, i just got 2 of them and gave the chromebooks to staff to do adjustments to online docs etc, rather than using as a fully functioning machine......
Sounds like we thin about tthe same of them, ok for very minor web bits and browsing, but not much more. i can probably do as much on my phone in reality as i could on the chromebook! | |
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