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as satisfying as it might be to piece together a high-end computer capable of

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doing everything from running games at 4K to trying to find the grand unified

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theory often times you probably find yourself just needing something to check

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your email or post a video selfie about how much you hate people who take

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selfies and even though you can do these things with a tablet or with a

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smartphone there's no denying the convenience of being able to use a good

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old-fashioned physical keyboard well Google jumped on this idea a few years

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back by rolling out the Chromebook a line of lightweight laptops tightly

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integrated with Google online services and pushed as an alternative to

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Windows-based laptops but how exactly are they different then from the

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traditional notebook PC and are they actually a compelling buy for people who

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don't need the you know peasant Destroyer over 9,000 gaming laptop will

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Chromebooks differ from regular laptops in two main way ways one they ship with

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Google's own operating system the Linux-based Chrome OS instead of Windows

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this OS relies heavily on web applications such as Google Drive and is

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essentially built around the Chrome web browser two because they are so tied to

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the internet and specifically to cloud storage they tend not to come with a

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whole lot of on device storage capacity

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most Chromebooks only pack 16 to 32 GB

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of internal storage though at least they are ssds so while you won't get a whole

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lot of space your read and write speed should still be quite a bit faster than

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a traditional laptop with a mechanical hard drive well lonus that actually

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sounds pretty dumb uh why would I want a laptop with a tiny drive that basically

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needs to be connected to the internet all the time great question although

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Chromebooks aren't as feature Rich as Windows laptops there are some distinct

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advantages the most prominent of which being cost Chromebooks are generally

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cheaper than traditional laptops and while prices do depend on the hardware

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inside you can get them new for as low as 150 bucks although 250 is a more

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common price point Chromebooks also try to blur the line between laptop and

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mobile device with long battery life most Chromebooks can get between 8 and

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13 hours on a single charge not to mention that their lightweight usually

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in the 2 to 3 lb range on surprisingly though the focus on web-based

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applications and Ultra portability comes with some compromises Windows

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applications won't run on Chrome OS meaning you'll have to find alternatives

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for things like Skype and iTunes uh it

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may come with 100 gabt of cloud storage for two years but after that you'll have

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to start forking your cash over to Google negating some of those cost

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benefits that you got for yourself by spending Less on your laptop and because

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most Chromebooks have Celeron or even ARM-based processors you won't be able

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to do a lot of that computationally intensive stuff that we alluded to at

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the beginning of the video unless you purchase one of the few higher-end

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models that spored an Intel core I3 or better processor but even with these

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limitations developers are coming up with tricks to make the Chromebook a

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more capable machine for instance Adobe has come out with a version of Photoshop

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for Chromebooks that actually offloads the processing to Adobe servers so you

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can still edit photos even on a low power CPU cool right and Google does

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include functionality for things like creating memos in Google Docs without an

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internet connection Chrome OS is also capable of running most Android apps

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natively and can even connect to an Android smartphone and even though the

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OS is designed to be a secured Walled Garden of sorts including storing boot

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code in a ROM chip to ensure the system can't be modified by an attacker

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Chromebooks do include a developer mode that enables you to install a different

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operating system on them alog together if you'd like so even though power users

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probably won't be conquering cyberspace with a Chromebook anytime soon it's

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certainly an interesting alternative if your Digital Life is mostly centered

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