Chromebooks

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Anyone have any experience in working on a Chromebook? Looking into picking one up to replace my aging laptop as I mostly use it to work on the site or to do some writing while out or on lunch during the week.

Have looked at the Acer C720, HP 14 Chromebook and the Asus M300

The top two I've settled on is the Acer and HP, the Asus one was struggling with certain things but I do love the battery life on it. Acer is the perfect workhorse and with decent battery life while the HP is a very close second and looks pretty.

 

[Erin Nicole]

I never understood the hype over the Chromebook. They are pretty much a netbook (tiny laptop thing) that is bigger... can't really download files can't really use FTP and it really just doesn't make sense. LOL

 

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Actually don't knock it

Since I created this thread I've purchased the HP Chromebook 14 and let me tell you. This thing is much lighter than my old laptop. You can download files, pictures, what have you onto it's, yes, small hard drive but, you're going to be using Google Drive a lot more for storage. For FTP I haven't found a great solution other than using Chrome Remote to get into my computer at home and using Filezilla that way.

It's perfect for what a great majority of people do online. Check email, browse the web and every day run of the mill tasks. Battery life is phenomenal and with Intel based processors (not the ARM ones) you can even install Ubuntu onto them.