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Much to my surprise the little chromebook has since then become the first computer I pick up, and I find I'm rarely using the others except for those few tasks which I can't manage on it. I really enjoy it's small size and weight, it's amazing battery life and the way that you open the lid and it's on - zero boot up time, brilliant! It resides by the side of my chair where it's ready and willing all the time.
As always, there are lots of people out there who will tell you that chrome isn't a proper operating system and that you are severely limited in what you can do with it. What is it with these people? Trust me, most of what they say is rubbish. I've even used it to upgrade the firmware on my Pentax K7, I just pretended it was a mac! Just about the only things that I can't do with the chromebook are rip cds, print directly from it and edit video. Of these printing would be possible with a change of printer, but I print so little these days I'll put up with what I've got thank you, I save to google drive then download and print from one of the HP's. Editing video is also just about possible using an online app', but the parlous speed of my internet connection, courtesy of BT, means it's a non starter really, much easier to edit using 'avidemux' on one of the HP's. Which leaves cd ripping, again something which I seem to do less and less these days, that simply isn't possible using chrome. Alternatives abound though. Google play downloads sound pretty good to me and websites such as that by Linn, which I've used frequently, offer much higher resolutions if you need them.
Would I buy another one, definitely. Would I like to see some improvements, certainly. Especially a higher res' screen. My advice to anyone considering giving a chromebook a try is go for it, I think you'll be very pleasantly surprised.
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