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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I agree that Chrombooks are fairly useless for dealing with eBooks and Calibre. I think they are a waste of money because no matter what you think you'll be doing with them, you'll eventually hit a snag where you'll want to do things that won't work with a Chromebook. Just get a laptop that runs Windows and be happy that you can do things you want to do.
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While I certainly agree with you, several of my family members (some of them much younger than me and all of them much better educated) would probably be quite happy with Chromebooks. They generally don't do anything on their personal computers that would even require installing a program. Email, web browsing, internet banking, social media, streaming services, uploading photos and so on. I would guess such people are actually the majority and we MobileRead nerds are the minority.
Last I counted, I had about 30 programs and applications installed on my main laptop. My sister has none. She uses her work laptop most of the time and installing anything there by employees is not allowed. Not that she has ever even wanted to. She's perfectly content with the few pre-installed programs the laptop has (MS Office being one of them, but I don't know if she has ever used it for personal stuff). Actually I'm not even sure she knows how to install a program at all... And she has a college degree.