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As long as you're fine abandoning the past a Chromebook is a good idea. However the concept of online documents to a normal person used to desktop software can
by mavhc 13y ago
As long as you're fine abandoning the past a Chromebook is a good idea. However the concept of online documents to a normal person used to desktop software can be tricky, "how do I save?", "how do I attach this document to an email?". Then there's concepts like authorising a web app to use your Google Drive to save files in, and exporting PDFs to give to people. And things like mpeg2 files don't play, so your own video camera won't work.
Main advantage is it never goes wrong or needs maintenance, no apps to update, even automatically. Don't need to learn about AV, etc.
- gizmo 13y agoChroombooks support thumb drives / memory sticks. So people can stick to their old habit of drag&dropping files from their thumb stick to an email to add an attachment.
- saraid216 13y agoWait wait wait. You're telling me that, to attach a file to an email, I attach a thumb drive to the computer? That's kinda awesome.
- plywoodtrees 13y agoThere is a File/Save and File/Open dialog much like people will be used to. You can use that to save and attach files.
- mavhc 13y agoAndroid/iOS basically didn't bother with cross application files, so that's one way to solve it. However the whole "3rd party app saves to google drive, attach file to email straight from drive, never have to download and upload it" thing is the future, just another new concept for people to learn, complicated by having to authorise all the 3rd parties to write to your gdrive.