![]() So 10 second start up, instant on from Sleep, and as fast a page loading as my last dear 866 mhz 12 year old Panther Mac laptop. So no spinning 5400 RPM disk memory and fan. Chromebooks have only 2G ram and 16G SSD. But Google Groups Chromebook-Central convinced me that the Chromebook is a mini MacAir. When the last of my Mac laptops died 6 months ago -I was prepared to get a great new MacAir. But I like that Chromebook -and iPhone -can do what I like better than my music collection -Chromebook can do the web radio Pandora. iPhone can view/edit/and add to my cloud Google Docs/Picassa pics/ Music. Or are some web pages built for "mobil" and sometimes a bit different than the regular web site? I'm not sure. But Chromebook can do everything web-wise that the smart phones can do. iPhone -for phone and texting -internet screen is so really small. But join me as the New Trivold Man -got Chromebook and iPhone -and big desktop in the closet. The Chromebook is all the computer I need. Get something now and have it outdated in 6 months -or wait and get a better device -that will itself get outdated in it's 6 months. ![]() Spend $300 now for todays models or wait maybe six months for possibly an Ivy Bridge much faster processor? Up to you. ![]() SEND everything -don't just store it on a hard drive that will drop dead within 10 years. We should be sending everyone the pic -let them crop to their heart's content. That trash can sitting there in the background might be very interesting to someone in the future. I don't even like to crop pics or cut out video material. Have seen a red eye pic in many years -your Google Picassa pic/video storage has minor editing to clear up picture red eye. I had the mighty PhotoShop and Graphic Converter apps on my Macs for 15 years -and never used them once. I'm that 50% of computer people that doen'st do any work -none at all -with their computing devices. Take into consideration what your needs are. No internet, I shut down and go do something else -with any massive desktop or laptop. I don't want to just sit their -listening to my music, peering at my pics and videos, perusing my documents. frankly, I don't stay with any computer that isn't connecting to the internet. Lift the lid and immediate going -from Sleep -closing the lid. ![]() I buy a large 5G of cellular connection -the same connection as cell phones have -from Verizon for $50/month. Then go back home or to a wifi Hotspot and get online to organize and make a permanent Google Doc out of your notes. You can carry your Chromebook around campus and text type notes all day long. But the only thing I think that works offline for me is the text note pad Scratchpad. Google has promised everything for off line. Aura is instead opening to a desktop pic with your Chrome Apps in a line at bottom left -a little like your Windows/Mac/Linux opening desktop pic -with your cursor active in a Google search bezel in the Chromebook. The old opening was to the Google basic search page we all now. These Chanels are like the Mozilla/Netscape nightly beta versions. You can choose Beta or Developers Chanel, No Aura yet on my Stable Chanel. People are automatically opening their Chromebooks and finding the Aura update now. Well, that's what the modern Chromebook is all about living online with only a great browser. Ten years ago -did anyone beside me -try to get Slackware to run on a tiny X86 machine -and could only get the browser to work? I loved that dearly.
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