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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Anyone can become unemployed for long periods of time, which means their next cable or ISP bill can become difficult to pay. A person might need to work at home while minimizing bill payments -- paying their electricity and gas, but choosing to do without cable or DSL. At such times, external media might become a musician, filmmaker or artist's way of working, and whatever entertainment they've stored already becomes their entertainment center.
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True, but the specific proposal with this chromebook is that it is expensive because that 1 TB of storage is included for 3 years, which is a reasonable lifetime for the laptop.
So, the issue isn't one of paying for the cloud storage in this time, but of doing without internet access.
A musician, film-maker or artist will not get very far without internet access these days, but assume that such a choice is made. They should buy a cheap desktop. You're right! Without internet access it's pointless having the chromebook. If they're really strapped for cash they may have to sell the chromebook itself.
However, at the current time, chromebooks are probably not for musicians, film-makers or artists, all of whom need specialist software and specific hardware interfaces.
But my argument above wasn't that chromebooks were for everybody, but for those whose work requires email, a word processor, a spreadsheet and presentation software, and that this looked like a reasonable target market.
Graham