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.   
On Jul 7, 2013, at 3:07 PM, Betty I wrote:

> Hi all;
> (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.)
> 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.
> 
> 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. 
> 
> But does that mean that they have no functionality if we're not online?
> 
> What do you guys think?
> I have time, since it's going to take about 4 months to get a new manufactured home up there :(
> 
> 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. 
> 
> http://ipmarizona.com/eclass/before.html
> 
> well, thanks for any ideas.
> betty i
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