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500gb is plenty. Chromebooks are fine for college work.

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hello, ltt forum. So I want to buy a new laptop for my sister on her birthday. I found a good one but it has only 500gb. do you guys think this is enough storage for her? she is not a gamer but she will use the laptop a lot with her collage work, so i have no idea how much storage will she need. also what do you guys think about Chromebooks, are they any good?

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1 minute ago, wotari said:

hello, ltt forum. So I want to buy a new laptop for my sister on her birthday. I found a good one but it has only 500gb. do you guys think this is enough storage for her? she is not a gamer but she will use the laptop a lot with her collage work, so i have no idea how much storage will she need. also what do you guys think about Chromebooks, are they any good?

500GB is fine, if it's general coursework.

Skip chromebooks for college, not enough useful software for them.

 

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3 minutes ago, wotari said:

it has only 500gb. do you guys think this is enough storage for her? she is not a gamer but she will use the laptop a lot with her collage work, so i have no idea how much storage will she need.

I don't know what kind of work she does, it's impossible to tell.

 

On my college laptop I have 64GB of storage and it's a lot more than I need. My documents are in the cloud and I'm not handling large files.

1 minute ago, Radium_Angel said:

Skip chromebooks for college, not enough useful software for them.

Depends. My chromebook does exactly what is needed for my class notes, I use OneNote for everything and the touchscreen/stylus is the most important feature.

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29 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Skip chromebooks for college, not enough useful software for them.

I disagree, it completely depends on what they're doing in college. If they just need a laptop to take notes and write essays or something then a Chromebook is a wonderful choice.

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7 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

I disagree, it completely depends on what they're doing in college. If they just need a laptop to take notes and write essays or something then a Chromebook is a wonderful choice.

Sure, if it's just note taking and minor document sharing, but for anything more specific, engineering comes to mind, I would think a chromebook would fall short in that area, no?

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Just now, Radium_Angel said:

Sure, if it's just note taking and minor document sharing, but for anything more specific, engineering comes to mind, I would think a chromebook would fall short in that area, no?

We have no idea what OP's sister will be doing. Kind of pointless to make that assumption. You are right to question it but to immediately shoot it down because MUH CHROMEBOOK BAD!!1! is dumb lol

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1 minute ago, kelvinhall05 said:

We have no idea what OP's sister will be doing. Kind of pointless to make that assumption. You are right to question it but to immediately shoot it down because MUH CHROMEBOOK BAD!!1! is dumb lol

Fair enough, I wasn't shooting down the CB because it's a CB, but rather the general lack of software as compared to a Windows or Apple laptop.

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I am using my school chromebook as my daily driver and it's great, but lacks in anything higher than browsing and word proccesing

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