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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Then you are not quite making a fair comparison to the Chromebook. You could just as well use Webapps in Windows. And when she has a number of programs she likes that would not be available on the Chromebook then you can't really compare the two.
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Surely the comparison is valid?
Without sidetracking the thread too far, two minutes after getting the Chromebook out the box it was up and running, fully up to date, with all my email, contacts and documents available. I actually carried on working on the document I'd had open on my Windows desktop when the doorbell rang for the delivery.
After turning on this Windows laptop we had to wait for some considerable time (I think it was nearly an hour - my wife went off to meditate) while a lot of Windows and Asus updates loaded. After that we were highly confused as to how to run programs. Bits of the screen would become 'locked' into an app with a bit of the desktop poking out to one side. The tiles that seemed to lead into the Windows world wanted additional setup to supply contacts and email.
Yes, at that point, several restarts later (there were waves of these updates each requiring a restart) if it were my machine I could have installed Chrome, and gone to my web apps and started work.
But my wife doesn't use web apps, so the comparison is a fair one. From her point of view, getting the Windows 8 laptop to allow her to work the way she can on her Windows 7 one has taken many hours of frustration, and she's still not there.
Graham