Bought one of these last week, with the £100 discount from Currys as I've always fancied a Chromebook. Been using it and setting it up to my preferences for the last few days and I have to say it's been brilliant. Very fast, boots in seconds, ultra secure (and I mean ultra secure) OS, amazing screen, syncs with Google Drive perfectly as you'd expect.
I was gonna go for the Acer 14 Chromebook, but the added flip-a-bility of this one into a tablet was well worth the extra £50.
I am a Mac man (I own 2 iMacs and 2 Macbook Pros - I'm not an Apple man as I hate their phones) but none of them are newer than 2012, even built crazy powerful Hackintosh via TonyMac a few years ago. My old faithful Macbook Pro 15 is from late 2008 and although it's still fast with a Samsung SSD and 8gb of ram, it feels like its starting to show its age just a bit. Mind you, its like a bloomin' Deep Blue computer compared to a Windows machine from the same era...
Anyway, I guess my point in writing this is to let people know that there's more choices out there than just OS X and Windows. Linux is good, I like it, but it can get messy when you run into a problem and it certainly isn't for everyone. I guess I might be lucky in having more than one computer available at any given time, but I have to recommend the Chromebook as an everyday, browser/email/facebook/light photo editor/movies/music/word/excel etc and whatever app you can install from the Google Play Store type of experience.
I've packed my Macbook away to see how I get on, but it's been a pleasure so far....but I do realise this isn't for everyone either.....and if the pic works, look at the Macbook cowering in the background.
I was gonna go for the Acer 14 Chromebook, but the added flip-a-bility of this one into a tablet was well worth the extra £50.
I am a Mac man (I own 2 iMacs and 2 Macbook Pros - I'm not an Apple man as I hate their phones) but none of them are newer than 2012, even built crazy powerful Hackintosh via TonyMac a few years ago. My old faithful Macbook Pro 15 is from late 2008 and although it's still fast with a Samsung SSD and 8gb of ram, it feels like its starting to show its age just a bit. Mind you, its like a bloomin' Deep Blue computer compared to a Windows machine from the same era...
Anyway, I guess my point in writing this is to let people know that there's more choices out there than just OS X and Windows. Linux is good, I like it, but it can get messy when you run into a problem and it certainly isn't for everyone. I guess I might be lucky in having more than one computer available at any given time, but I have to recommend the Chromebook as an everyday, browser/email/facebook/light photo editor/movies/music/word/excel etc and whatever app you can install from the Google Play Store type of experience.
I've packed my Macbook away to see how I get on, but it's been a pleasure so far....but I do realise this isn't for everyone either.....and if the pic works, look at the Macbook cowering in the background.