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Originally Posted by DarkScribe
My MacBook Air will do all of these things with the exception of application updates. My wife was given a Chromebook last week and I had a play with it over the weekend. I regard it as a toy. I have a Windows7 i7 32GB desktop, a MacBook Air for out of Office and an iPad3 to play games, check email etc. I can't see a Chromebook ever being of use. My wife has already lost interest in hers.
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The MacBook Air and Windows ultrabooks are superb machines, and we're not claiming that the Chromebooks have the same breadth of functionality. However, for those of us whose requirements are covered by ChromeOS, they're a great hassle-free choice.
If you have a pressing need that the Chromebook can't handle then it's not for you, but if it does what you need then it's certainly not a toy. As I mentioned above, there have been several days now when I didn't switch on my desktop. The Chromebook was able to handle all my day's work.
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Originally Posted by DarkScribe
Among other issues I will never trust any form of cloud computing. (Talk about putting all of your eggs in one flimsy basket.)
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If you're travelling with a traditional laptop without cloud computing and you lose it you're in for a world of hurt.
If you're travelling with a Chromebook and lose it you simply buy another one, reconnect to the internet, and carry on. In fact, you can simply wander into an internet café and carry on.
This also applies of course if you're out and about
without your laptop. In the last three weeks since I switched my workflow to the cloud there have been several times when I've been sitting at a 'foreign' machine and have simply logged back in to Chrome and continued with my work.
With regard to your eggs being in one basket, if you don't trust a single cloud solution you can of course keep a local copy. There are also cheap solutions to maintain a live backup either locally or to a different cloud provider.
Graham