Opinions on Chromebooks

[Woah Boy]

Should I purchase one? 

[YedZed]

If Web browsing is all you want it for, and its a good price, and you appreciate a streamlined but rigid system, yes. 

If you do literally anything else, it can't do that.

[Jurrunio]

It's only good for paper work and maybe some basic entertainment. That's it. They are cheap though with a long battery life.

[Woah Boy]

2 minutes ago, YedZed said:

If Web browsing is all you want it for, and its a good price, and you appreciate a streamlined but rigid system, yes. 

If you do literally anything else, it can't do that.

Well I have my main rig for other stuff lol I just need something that's quick and that's gonna remain that way for browsing, watching vids, doing work. Something that keeps me to have to boot my space heater (8350) system up, unless it's for gaming

[RGProductions]

I would rather have one than a sub $200 windows laptop, but soon after that I'd rather have Windows, coming from a Chromebook owner.

[Woah Boy]

Just now, RGProductions said:

I would rather have one than a sub $200 windows laptop, but soon after that I'd rather have Windows, coming from a Chromebook owner.

I do plan to put Ubuntu on it if that matters

[RGProductions]

Just now, Steadyhands said:

I do plan to put Ubuntu on it if that matters

I would rather use chromeos actually. Everything just works on a Chromebook with chromeos, and Ubuntu is ehhhh.

[Woah Boy]

Just now, RGProductions said:

I would rather use chromeos actually. Everything just works on a Chromebook with chromeos, and Ubuntu is ehhhh.

Oh so they're optimized for chrome os eh , can I get Android apps on them?

[RGProductions]

Just now, Steadyhands said:

Oh so they're optimized for chrome os eh , can I get Android apps on them?

I wouldn't say optimized for chromeos, rather that chromeos is just really easy to do.

[Woah Boy]

5 minutes ago, RGProductions said:

I wouldn't say optimized for chromeos, rather that chromeos is just really easy to do.

Well as long as it remains quick and able to do simple tasks then im fine with it.

[lonleyspoon]

We use chromebooks at my school, and it does work for everything we need to do at school. For example, we share documents with our teachers via Google Drive.

They are pretty good for school stuff. Otherwise, you'r prob better of with a cheap Win 7 4GB Laptop or something like that.

[Woah Boy]

2 hours ago, lonleyspoon said:

We use chromebooks at my school, and it does work for everything we need to do at school. For example, we share documents with our teachers via Google Drive.

They are pretty good for school stuff. Otherwise, you'r prob better of with a cheap Win 7 4GB Laptop or something like that.

Chromebook is pretty fast though? 

[Maximoose]

8 hours ago, Steadyhands said:

Should I purchase one? 

It really all depends on the use case, if everything you do is (or can be done) in a web browser and you aren't that heavy of a user, then sure, go ahead. But I would use your current computer with chrome for a while and "test drive" all of Google's service to make sure you like them, because, unless you want to install another OS, you'll pretty much be locked into Google's services. In the end, Chromebooks aren't bad, they can just be wrong.

[lonleyspoon]

10 hours ago, Steadyhands said:

Chromebook is pretty fast though? 

Yup. Relly fast. But the internet isn't always the fastest at my schoo. but the actual performance of the chromebook is good.