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• ¿Your First Chromebook? Should You Get One?

  Vincent Massi > 06-18-2016, 10:20 PM

  Brethren, I LOVE Windows 10. I even write on two Windows 10 forums. But I had to replace the laptop that got ruined because we have church kids come over every day to use our three laptops. And...and...
  
  I finally found my first Chromebook, made sure that I had a seven-day return guarantee, and got to work.
  
  
  When I plugged it in and turned it on, it asked me what language I wanted. Choosing English was easy. Unlike Windows, there is only one Chrome Operating System. Chromebooks cannot refuse updates, so they all have the same OS.
  
  
  Then it asked me what language keyboard I wanted. Bought in Mexico, it had a Spanish keyboard, so I chose that.
  
  
  Then it scanned all available Wi-Fi and asked which one I wanted. I typed in the password on our modem, and I was online.
  
  
  It then asked me to sign in to my Google account. I had already gone to Google.com on my Windows 10 machine and set up a free account. If you don’t have one, Chrome will help you set one up.
  
  That’s it. I was online with the Chrome Operating System.

• RE: ¿Your First Chromebook? Should You Get One?

  Vincent Massi > 06-20-2016, 01:57 PM

  Chrome has a Chrome icon in the bottom left part of the screen. Remember that ¨Chrome¨ refers to both the operating system and the internet browser. A Chrome toolbar appeared on top with a link to my Firefox bookmarks from my Win 10 machine. Chrome easily took me to Facebook and other sites, although I had to sign into all of them the first time. (This is normal for any new computer or OS).
  
  With the standard two gigs of RAM and a quad-core ARM chip, my Chromebook is THE cheapest Chromebook available today ($150 US). Yet it rapidly flipped pages, opened tabs, played Christian music from Youtube, and ran multiple tabs with no problem.
  
  When I added bookmarks to Chrome, they appeared on a toolbar at the top and were easy to find.

• RE: ¿Your First Chromebook? Should You Get One?

  praise_yeshua > 06-20-2016, 03:09 PM

  I don't own a Chromebook but you can run Android apps on most Chromebooks with version 37 or higher.

• RE: ¿Your First Chromebook? Should You Get One?

  Vincent Massi > 06-20-2016, 05:10 PM

  (06-20-2016, 03:09 PM)praise_yeshua Wrote: I don't own a Chromebook but you can run Android apps on most Chromebooks with version 37 or higher.

  
  
  There's a technical explanation of this. The current version of Chrome is 49--all Chromebooks are upgraded automatically. There are an additional four beta versions for courageous users, and the newest and riskiest one will run Android aps. Google has announced that by the end of the year, most Chromebooks will be able to run Android aps on the standard version of Chrome.
  
  
  
  If you want to run Android aps, remember that most of them require a touchscreen.                  
  Finally! Somebody besides me writing on this thread.

• RE: ¿Your First Chromebook? Should You Get One?

  Vincent Massi > 06-21-2016, 02:22 PM

  Part 3
  
  There is a ¨magnifying glass¨ icon in the bottom left corner of the screen, and an identical key on the keyboard. This takes you to your list of Chrome apps, including a link to the Chrome Store. I found hundreds of free apps, including a pretty good Solitaire game. I installed some diagnostic tools, games, and word processing tools with no problems. The ¨Bible App¨ has always been a disappointment to me, but it was the best they had.
  
  I am typing this post on Google Docs, which works as well as any free Windows word processor.
  
  And yes, every app that I installed works fine offline.

• RE: ¿Your First Chromebook? Should You Get One?

  Vincent Massi > 06-22-2016, 02:51 PM

  Part 4
  
  Okay, I was having fun with my new Chromebook, but we have Mexican kids from our church, an orphanage,and the neighborhood come over in the evenings to play and do homework on our three laptops. How would they like Chrome?
  
  Using my poor Spanish, I pointed to the icons for the internet, Facebook, and Youtube. Despite the small screen, they like it because it is faster than my two Windows 10 laptops. And despite never having seen a Chromebook before, and despite the fact that my WIndows 10 laptops use Firefox, (They had never used the Chrome browser before), they immediately got to work with no problems.
  
  Folks, Chrome is that easy.
  
  PS. Yesterday, I was updated from Chrome 49 to Chrome 51 with no problems.

• RE: ¿Your First Chromebook? Should You Get One?

  Vincent Massi > 06-23-2016, 03:02 PM

  Part 5
  
  Understanding Chrome
  
  Google invented the Chrome internet browser, which in April 2016 passed Internet Explorer as the world's most popular browser. Then they invented the Chrome Operating System, whose only function was to go online with the Chrome browser. Then they invented Chromebooks, whose only function is to run the Chrome Operating System.
  
  Chromebooks have improved and can now work offline. They can do serious work and play low-ĺevel and mid-level games. They go on the internet better, faster, cheaper, and safer than Windows.
  
  Chrome does less than Windows offline, but online, Chrome is the champ.
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