Ted,
We bought a 11" Acer chromebook 2 years ago to use to watch tv after getting
rid of cable TV. I spilled a whole glass of milk in it, dried it out
overnight over a dehumidifier, and it's worked fine ever since.
We then bought a 15" Acer chromebook from Groupon for $80 refurbished, and that
has worked flawlessly too.
The only issue I have with Chrome is that it locks up quite a bit if you have
more than 3 or 4 tabs open and a few apps running. I wish they could get the
virtual memory working better.
The 15" has at least an 8 hour battery life, which is awesome.
I also use it for to remote desktop and teamviewer into client's computers.
Mike
From: Ted Roche <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2017 9:33 AM
Subject: [NF] Chromebook OOBE
Not Fox, Not even Windows, but interesting tech I thought I'd share.
As Family Area Network SysAdmin, I set up and support machines for a
couple of relatives.
One was interested in browsing and broadcasting free movies from
archive.org and slideshows and personal files to his TV. I set up a
Google Chromecast and picked up an inexpensive refurbed ASUS
Chromebook 15 from NewEgg ($130).
Essentially, the laptop is a 16Gb SSD running Chrome OS and Chome
browser. No Windows to infect and update and "have you turned it off
and back on" tech support. Decent screen 13x7 and 15" decent audio,
HDMI and 2 USB3 ports. Supposed 12 hour battery, and 802.11ac wifi.
ChromeOS has some decent accessiblity features that display
extra-large cursors and graphics and some zoom and magnify features
for those with limited vision.
Yes, everything you do is transmitted to Google who use it to target
you with ads.
Added EFF's Privacy Badger and HTTPS Everywhere to the browser.
Can't run Windows apps locally, but there are some RDP solutions as
well as web-based, of course. Could run Linux if you really wanted to,
but for this use case, this seems like a pretty sweet consumer machine
at a very reasonable price.
Bonus Google Hangouts means video phone calls and screen sharing (also
in Chrome Remote Desktop) for tech support.
Anyone else using Chromebooks? Good or bad experiences to share?
Warnings on things to avoid?
--
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com
[excessive quoting removed by server]
_______________________________________________
Post Messages to: [email protected]
Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox
OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech
Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox
This message:
http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected]
** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the
author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added
to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
