Chrome Books - recommendations please
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The delightful little Vex-letts did really rather well in thier end of year reports, SATS and (only one of them so far) 11+
They both use Google Classroom and Chromebooks at school and seem to dominate the house laptop for research and homeworks, amongst other things.
Given the cost of ChromeBooks now, we are thinking of getting them one each.
But I know very little about them and thier abilities. Happy to research the final details, but need a push in the right direction.
So what is out there? what is coming? and what is recommended?
And no, no ipads or tablets, because they are not recommended by the schools.
They both use Google Classroom and Chromebooks at school and seem to dominate the house laptop for research and homeworks, amongst other things.
Given the cost of ChromeBooks now, we are thinking of getting them one each.
But I know very little about them and thier abilities. Happy to research the final details, but need a push in the right direction.
So what is out there? what is coming? and what is recommended?
And no, no ipads or tablets, because they are not recommended by the schools.
I use a Lenovo N22 for anything browser related. Which is most of my computer use to be honest. Starts up quickly, decent battery life, no fan making a racket. Good piece of kit. Got mine off amazon realitively cheap in some sale or other. My main laptop just gathers dust because it is so good.
I have the Acer CB3-131 at home at it works fine. To be honest there isn't much difference between Chromebooks as they all run the same OS. Pick the size you want and then have a look at what is available. As a main machine 4GB of RAM might help a bit, especially if games are to be played but a Chromebook will run ok with 2GB (which mine has).
Acer tend to be fairly good for Chromebooks - we have several hundred where I work and they tend to be fairly robust in the hands of children.
Acer tend to be fairly good for Chromebooks - we have several hundred where I work and they tend to be fairly robust in the hands of children.
Chromebooks as yet don't really appear to have any brands or models that clearly stand out above each other. At around the £200 mark just get whatever feels right and then replace the whole thing when it breaks. I think screen quality is one area where the budget Chromebooks are a bit weak though.
The Toshiba chromebook cb30-b-104 with the 1080p HD screen 4gb RAM + 64GB SSD is a good bit of kit. My brother has one and it's around a year old now, it's been stable/reliable performs well (battery life is very good @8-10hr) the screen really is top notch and there aren't that many 13.3 that offer full HD.
I've had the Asus Chromebook Flip for about 6 months and I absolutely love it. I bought it to replace an Android tablet which packed up, because it can be used as a tablet or a laptop. And on a more technical note, you can boot from USB/Micro SD and use a different OS (such as Kali Linux)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-Chromebook-Rockchip-...
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Bikerjon said:
Chromebooks as yet don't really appear to have any brands or models that clearly stand out above each other. At around the £200 mark just get whatever feels right and then replace the whole thing when it breaks. I think screen quality is one area where the budget Chromebooks are a bit weak though.
Screechmr2 said:
I've had the toshiba chromebook 2 (c30-b-104) for a couple of years now, been faultless. Battery life is still good, screen is good, the quick boot-up is great.
Also have a chromebit which works perfectly as well
This, it's all much of muchness, but the toshiba was a Full HD IPS screen, which makes a big step up from the lower res TN panels.Also have a chromebit which works perfectly as well
There's a couple more now, and screen is where I'd put my money tbh.
ZesPak said:
This, it's all much of muchness, but the toshiba was a Full HD IPS screen, which makes a big step up from the lower res TN panels.
There's a couple more now, and screen is where I'd put my money tbh.
True, full HD and higher resolution are stand out. I've also got a Asus 14inch note book running Windows 10 which I use for travel & running car diagnostics programs and that uses a 720HD screen and the colour vibrancy an clarity on the Toshiba is noticeable!!There's a couple more now, and screen is where I'd put my money tbh.
Also the speakers on the Toshiba are by far the best laptop speakers I've heard compared with previous Dell Inspirons, Sony Vaios, HP & Asus that I have in the last few years.
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