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Chromebook
Jeffrey Tucker recommended the Samsung Chromebook this week on the new Power & Market Report podcast. I’m in the market for a new laptop to do work on. How good is a Chromebook for creating content, managing sites, etc.? Can I play here on Liberty.me with a Chromebook as well as I am now with my 5-year-old Lenovo laptop?
I got my husband a little Toshiba Chromebook in March. It works great. It’s a heck of a lot faster and lighter than this old laptop I’m on now. If you’re used to Chrome, it should be fine. The only thing is, they don’t have a lot of storage. You have to use the cloud.
The Cloud seems to be the future of computing. Not sure yet whether that’s a good thing. Toni, does your husband use his Chromebook to get work done?
Nope. He just reads on it, mostly. I use it on this site, and others, email and reading. We don’t have computer-type jobs, so I can’t be of much help. Mine has no disc drive, but it does have 3 usb ports. . . not sure if that’s typical.
I hope somebody else pops in with more info for you.
My Chromebook collects dust. I certainly can’t program with it, and writing on it (you’re pretty much stuck with Google Drive, Word Online, or other online editor) can be a major pain if you’re not used to having a robust editor. And for me I like having a big screen when I work (in fact, two big screens!) so laptops don’t work in general.
Honestly, I don’t like Chromebook’s at all, but I’m not a writer. Chromebooks boot up super quick and if you’ve got good WiFi (mine doesn’t have an ethernet port) you can load up an online editor and get to writing very quickly. If you stick purely to the cloud this can be handy, but if you’re like me and you’ve got like 3 copies of everything in various places, it could be frustrating to maintain multiple backups.
A normal laptop can do everything a Chromebook does and more, if you purposely want to limit yourself for plain and simple ease of use, go for it. It all depends on your preferences. 🙂
