![]() Chrome OS was built as a Web-first operating system, so apps usually run in a Chrome browser window. The same is true for apps that can run offline. Both Windows 10 and Chrome are great for working in side-by-side windows. For each OS, all you need to do is drag a window to one side, where it snaps to half-screen mode. If you’ve been in the market for a laptop recently, you may have seen a type of laptop called a “Chromebook” It might sound a little weird; after all, isn’t Chrome a web browser? Why are there laptops named after it? Chromebooks fill a specific niche in the laptop world. If you purchase one expecting something similar to a normal laptop, you may end up very disappointed with your purchase. However, if your needs and wants from a laptop match what a Chromebook does, you may find yourself saving a bit of money in the process! I consider myself a knowledgeable user; I’ve been working and playing with pcs since the late 1970s and recently retired from IBM. While I have several Macs and use to have several Win pcs too, I now do most of my work on a Chromebook. If all or most of what you do gets done in a browser, and you can adopt to using Chrome, then a Chromebook is possibly a good match for you. While we seem to be past the period where Chromebooks could be very cheap, good ones are still less expensive than a powerful laptop. Chromebooks are inherently safer online (because malware is unable to install itself) and you don’t need extra anti-virus. Updates are much easier and quicker too. Almost all of your ‘data’ is stored in the cloud and not on the Chromebook. So if your machine breaks or is stolen, you’ve only lost the inexpensive hardware. 3 Free Ways to Remotely Connect to Your Mac’s Desktop Chris Hoffman @chrisbhoffman Updated July 3, 2017, 4:19pm EDT Apple sells Apple Remote Desktop on the Mac App Store for $80, but you don’t have to spend any money to remotely connect to your Mac. Remote control mac for my parents. ![]() A replacement Chromebook can be up and running in a very few minutes; not the hours it can take to rebuild a complex setup on a regular pc. Even if you use a regular machine for work that can only be done there, a Chromebook can be used for online activity; this makes your online activity safer in the Chromebook environment and your other pc is safer too because it isn’t as exposed as it was every time you go online. Give one a try, you might like it. Too many seem to be prejudiced against them yet only know them by inaccurate statements they’ve heard. Don’t follow the herd, try it for yourself. Cheers Russ Sent from my Chromebook •. “Give one a try, you might like it.” I might or I might not. Chromebooks are just another way of Google ensnaring users into its closed ecosystem. If you don’t mind handing over the control of your data to Google, Chromebooks are great. At any moment, Google can lock you out of your data for any of a myriad of reasons. I want MY data to remain MINE and accessible to me 24/7/365. You may have great security on a Chromebook BUT you have no privacy. You share EVERYTHING with Google. OTOH, a Chromebook is exactly what the proverbial “average user” needs. (S)he does not have to worry about updates, upgrades, security, software installs, etc.
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