<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I have a few (non technical) friends who have chrome books and *love* them. I've been thinking of getting a Pixel to replace my MacBookPro in about a year (hopefully the 2nd Gen Pixels will be out by then). But I have noticed a few things that you'll want to be sure of before you go with a chromebook. First of all make sure your printer is cloud ready or at least wirelessly accessible. if so your chrome book will work with it like magic otherwise it can be a lot of work to get them to work together. While you can work offline on a chromebook, my understanding is that you have to download several apps to make them work that way so you'll want high speed internet access at least for configuring. Finally there isn't a lot of storage space on the chrome books themselves as they expect to be able to access the cloud. I have two 2 terabyte hard drives that are intranet aware so I doubt this would be an issue for me. But something to keep in mind. <br><div><div>On Jul 7, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Betty I wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi all;<br></div>(I used to be the lady that was 'nice penguin @ webcanine dot com' but had to change my email so now I have this one.)<br></div>We lost our house in Yarnell to the fire last weekend and are staying in Phoenix. But you guys have always been good for information on computer stuff in general, so i thought i'd ask here first.<br>
<br></div>We have good insurance, and it is going to cover replacement cost for our computers up there. They were old, pentium III's that i had put ubuntu on and were great desktops. but i am thinking that since we don't do a lot of computer intense work up there, just surf online and read emails, that maybe it would be better to just get laptops. Then i was thinking maybe of getting a chromebook instead of a 'regular' laptop; but my son said that those are all 'cloud ' based. <br>
<br></div>But does that mean that they have no functionality if we're not online?<br><br></div>What do you guys think?<br></div>I have time, since it's going to take about 4 months to get a new manufactured home up there :(<br>
<br></div>also, OT, i did just finish an html class and made my final project a few webpages with photos of the place and the fire stuff. of course, we haven't been allowed back up there but we're hoping for early this week. <br>
<br><a href="http://ipmarizona.com/eclass/before.html">http://ipmarizona.com/eclass/before.html</a><br><br></div>well, thanks for any ideas.<br></div>betty i<br clear="all"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>
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