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Old 10-01-2014, 07:31 PM   #31
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You don't need much to run OverDrive, Audible, and Calibre.
Yup, and iTunes for the WAV audiobooks...that's pretty much why I bought my Dell Venue 8 Pro for ca. $160 last November. I added a 64 GB card to house my audio and ebooks, and use a RAV Power WiFi filehub with an external HDD attached to back up everything from Win, Android and iOS.

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Old 10-01-2014, 08:30 PM   #32
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No DUH!! (Leaving aside the issue of internal HDD speed vs. external HDD speed.)

If you are using an external hard drive, then it is disingenuous to also say "You don't need much to run OverDrive, Audible, and Calibre."
Storage is a separate issue and not the same as day-to-day use. I don't need access to my entire downloaded catalog in order to listen to audiobooks stored in the cloud. I need just enough free storage to download files that will then be transferred to an MP3 player.
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Old 10-01-2014, 08:44 PM   #33
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Good question. I've got a Lenovo Yoga 2 11 with much better specs (Pentium, 4GB RAM, 500GB HD, etc.) and it barely puts along on Windows 8.1. And every week or so you turn it on to see the dreaded, "You've got 9,347,824 updates ready to install. Would you like to install now and hopefully live long enough for Windows to finish?" I'm thinking those Streams will be slow-motion machines!
Before deciding on getting one, I'll wait for some real world reviews. The only reason I'd get one is to run several programs I can't run on my Chromebook.
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Old 10-01-2014, 08:47 PM   #34
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My Acer Chromebook has a 320GB hard drive.
Mine has a 16GB SSD. So far, plenty of room to run things.
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Yup, and iTunes for the WAV audiobooks...that's pretty much why I bought my Dell Venue 8 Pro for ca. $160 last November. I added a 64 GB card to house my audio and ebooks, and use a RAV Power WiFi filehub with an external HDD attached to back up everything from Win, Android and iOS.
I don't store much on my Chromebook. It's a web and media device that mostly consumes content from the cloud. If on the off chance that I took it with me on a trip to watch videos, a couple of USB sticks would solve any storage needs I'd have.
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I have the regular SD card version of the RAV Power. The first time you end up in a situation where the wifi is terrible, is when you realize that relying on cloud storage isn't so great.

I am going to install the Technical Preview after dinner on my Dell, I'll let you all know how that goes with 2GB of RAM.
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Microsoft wont be able to kill chromebook anymore. Majority of people use the internet to use Google search, Facebook, Email, Youtube.
Most people that I know that are the main tech support for their families have started recommending chromebooks not just because of the ease of use but also fewer support headaches for themselves. Not having to install an antivirus\antimalware and run it every month or remove the 10-15 toolbars/useless software every few month is great incentive to promote chromebooks.
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As they expand the Android apps that will run on Chrome hopefully two out of those three will be able to run on your Chromebook.
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Old 10-01-2014, 11:27 PM   #39
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I can't really see much use in a 32GB Windows computer. Nearly half of that space would be used up by the OS.
not so. with Win 8.1 "WIMBoot" the os takes only 3GB http://hothardware.com/News/Microsof...Of-Disk-Space/
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Old 10-02-2014, 12:33 AM   #40
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As they expand the Android apps that will run on Chrome hopefully two out of those three will be able to run on your Chromebook.
Hopefully, Android versions of Audible and OverDrive will allow downloading the files to a Chromebook, and then to an MP3 player. Unfortunately, OD WMA audiobooks will still be unsupported. That format absolutely requires a Windows PC to download. Even though OverDrive announced last January that they planned to ditch WMA and switch to MP3 only for audiobooks, it still hasn't happened.
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Old 10-02-2014, 04:18 AM   #41
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not so. with Win 8.1 "WIMBoot" the os takes only 3GB http://hothardware.com/News/Microsof...Of-Disk-Space/
Well, I hadn't seen WIMBoot before (I'm firmly in the Linux world now), but I see it uses compressed files and pointers to these compressed files in the uncompressed section of the drive. So, you're right, it takes up less space ... but it also has the potential 1) to be slower (compression/decompression over and over again) and 2) for serious corruption. If the pointers get corrupted I can see the whole thing crashing.

And, with Windows, along with the OS, you need to add anti-virus, which adds to the overhead.
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I wonder how much these will be in Europe. But even if they flipped $ with €, they would still be inexpensive for a Windows machine.
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Tried out 10 today. Ran like a turtle on my Core 2 Duo Dell, but ran fine under Boot Camp on my 2011 MacBook Pro.

I did a 32GB partition on my Mac BTW, and it didn't make a fuss about it.
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Tried out 10 today. Ran like a turtle on my Core 2 Duo Dell, but ran fine under Boot Camp on my 2011 MacBook Pro.

I did a 32GB partition on my Mac BTW, and it didn't make a fuss about it.
How do you like the interface in comparison to 8.1?
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Tried out 10 today. Ran like a turtle on my Core 2 Duo Dell, but ran fine under Boot Camp on my 2011 MacBook Pro.
Then it should be a speed demon on these new Celeron Winbooks
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