as satisfying as it might be to piece together a high-end computer capable of
doing everything from running games at 4K to trying to find the grand unified
theory often times you probably find yourself just needing something to check
your email or post a video selfie about how much you hate people who take
selfies and even though you can do these things with a tablet or with a
smartphone there's no denying the convenience of being able to use a good
old-fashioned physical keyboard well Google jumped on this idea a few years
back by rolling out the Chromebook a line of lightweight laptops tightly
integrated with Google online services and pushed as an alternative to
Windows-based laptops but how exactly are they different then from the
traditional notebook PC and are they actually a compelling buy for people who
don't need the you know peasant Destroyer over 9,000 gaming laptop will
Chromebooks differ from regular laptops in two main way ways one they ship with
Google's own operating system the Linux-based Chrome OS instead of Windows
this OS relies heavily on web applications such as Google Drive and is
essentially built around the Chrome web browser two because they are so tied to
the internet and specifically to cloud storage they tend not to come with a
whole lot of on device storage capacity
most Chromebooks only pack 16 to 32 GB
of internal storage though at least they are ssds so while you won't get a whole
lot of space your read and write speed should still be quite a bit faster than
a traditional laptop with a mechanical hard drive well lonus that actually
sounds pretty dumb uh why would I want a laptop with a tiny drive that basically
needs to be connected to the internet all the time great question although
Chromebooks aren't as feature Rich as Windows laptops there are some distinct
advantages the most prominent of which being cost Chromebooks are generally
cheaper than traditional laptops and while prices do depend on the hardware
inside you can get them new for as low as 150 bucks although 250 is a more
common price point Chromebooks also try to blur the line between laptop and
mobile device with long battery life most Chromebooks can get between 8 and
13 hours on a single charge not to mention that their lightweight usually
in the 2 to 3 lb range on surprisingly though the focus on web-based
applications and Ultra portability comes with some compromises Windows
applications won't run on Chrome OS meaning you'll have to find alternatives
for things like Skype and iTunes uh it
may come with 100 gabt of cloud storage for two years but after that you'll have
to start forking your cash over to Google negating some of those cost
benefits that you got for yourself by spending Less on your laptop and because
most Chromebooks have Celeron or even ARM-based processors you won't be able
to do a lot of that computationally intensive stuff that we alluded to at
the beginning of the video unless you purchase one of the few higher-end
models that spored an Intel core I3 or better processor but even with these
limitations developers are coming up with tricks to make the Chromebook a
more capable machine for instance Adobe has come out with a version of Photoshop
for Chromebooks that actually offloads the processing to Adobe servers so you
can still edit photos even on a low power CPU cool right and Google does
include functionality for things like creating memos in Google Docs without an
internet connection Chrome OS is also capable of running most Android apps
natively and can even connect to an Android smartphone and even though the
OS is designed to be a secured Walled Garden of sorts including storing boot
code in a ROM chip to ensure the system can't be modified by an attacker
Chromebooks do include a developer mode that enables you to install a different
operating system on them alog together if you'd like so even though power users
probably won't be conquering cyberspace with a Chromebook anytime soon it's
certainly an interesting alternative if your Digital Life is mostly centered
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