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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