Saturday 10 September 2016

Chrome OS – the great leap forward



Acer Chromebook R13 convertible Chromebook
Credit: Google/Wired

Chrome OS is secure, simple, & boots in under 10 seconds. But its, “just a browser”. Android on the other hand has millions of apps.1 The strengths of those two operating systems are about to come together.



And Chromebooks recently outsold Macs for the first time
http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/19/11711714/chromebooks-outsold-macs-us-idc-figures

How Chromebooks are about to totally transform laptop design
https://www.wired.com/2016/09/chromebooks-totally-transform-laptop-design/?mbid=nl_9916_p3&CNDID=

Attention, college students: Chromebooks are about to get awesome
http://www.wired.com/2016/08/attention-poor-students-chromebooks-get-awesome/?mbid=nl_81216_p3
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1Statista: “Number of available applications in the Google Play Store from December 2009 to February 2016”,
http://www.statista.com/statistics/266210/number-of-available-applications-in-the-google-play-store/
/ college students Chromebooks are about to get awesome back-to-school advice don’t buy a laptop wait a couple of months Apple release new MacBook Pro Windows PCs a few made by Microsoft itself new breed of Chromebooks on their way lots of good Chromebooks cheap ones ridiculously expensive ones straightforward laptops Google Play Store Chrome OS millions of Android apps on your Chromebook change Chromebooks completely touchscreens will be more important new sensors processors integrated detachable hybrid laptop-tablet things buy a recent Chromebook support Android app integration when it launches full app-y experience HP Chromebook 13, for instance great laptop more versatile device from Asus Chromebook Pixel has a touchscreen timeframe you should seriously consider buying a Chromebook ChromeOS secure and simple lose or break your device all your settings and data restored in a few minutes Chromebooks have great battery life don’t require much power pretty portable too Chromebook is plenty of computer for reading Wikipedia and writing your papers what’s great about ChromeOS how little setup it requires you just log in. tweak and fiddle Chrome Web Store full of extensions apps Plex torrented get JSTorrent downloading LastPass 1Password keep all your logins in order Line Google Hangouts Chrome apps Facebook Messenger WhatsApp have decent web apps Evernote for taking notes download New Tab Draft notepad every time you open a new tab Word and Excel Chrome Google Docs Sheets work offline great apps learning math reviewing flashcards reading textbooks Android app a few tweaks Chromebook Android Google Pushbullet links files photos device OneTab many tabs dock at the bottom of the screen right-click icons enable OK Google start a search biggest change Chromebook Mac Windows PC ChromeOS device powerful feature-rich a Chromebook’s exactly what most people browser Android biggest ecosystem apps laptop laptop /