CiC

Amazon.co.uk

The Chromebook is a one of a kind net-book. Here is a nice list of things you can expect from the net-book.

Pros:

• Boots up really really fast (about 6-8 seconds, 8 if computer is updating its operating system)
• Boots up instantly when awoken from sleep mode
• Computer keyboard has fairly large keys, nice for fat fingers (like mine)
• Is always on-line, perfectly in-sync with your Google Drive. Everything is done browser based thanks to the new html5
• Thousands of applications at the ready due to Google Chrome browser support
• Update 20 came with Android Desktop
• Free updates
• No need for anti-virus system, contains one in the operating system
• Great battery time. (Can last 8 hours by just browsing, text working etc)
• Computer is very light, very portable. Works on-line and off-line
• Tracker has smart features, like, double clicking, scrolling and dragging
• On the fly brightness and volume changer with dedicated keyboard buttons
• Has one HDMI slot
• Has 2 USB slot (I think its 2.0)
• Audio jacks
• Has a slot for external cards

Cons:

• No caps lock key
• No real support (or apps) for FTP utilities. (So web developing is a pain, have to use browser alternatives like ShiftEdit)
• Tracker pad can stop working now and then due to the heat spread sinking under it making the tracking thinking its a large thumb

If you have any questions towards the laptop I'll be more than happy to answer.


The chromebook is all you'll need for internet browsing, should it be writing documents or reading recipes it'll do both and more.

wouldn't say the lack of a caps lock key is a Con. I hate that button. Rarely, if ever, use it, and only times i use it i've pressed it by accident without realising and have to retype a whole sentence :/

Nagash wrote:wouldn't say the lack of a caps lock key is a Con. I hate that button. Rarely, if ever, use it, and only times i use it i've pressed it by accident without realising and have to retype a whole sentence :/

I've never really had an incident with the caps key and it's useful for the things I tend to do on my computer. I find it far more difficult to type a sentence in caps with just holding down shift and hitting the keys down than just using my baby finger to tap the caps lock key.

What can a chrome book do? Scrap that, there's got to be a huge list of what it can't do? I've not really looked in to it, but it seems to me that it's just a google marketed netbook.. and those things were just... word processors and browsers.. And other basic rubbish for like a 60% markup?

Caps lock key is useless, it's only useful for things which you need a lot of hotkeys, although, ALT+ and CTRL+ and SHIFT+ and ALT+CTRL and CLT+SHIFT give you approximately 500 keyboard global hotkeys that one key shouldn't ever really matter, unless you have the typing speed of a pensioner. If anything I always accidentally hit it when I hit TAB in games and end up typing in CAPS.

I can't see how you gave this 4*. Surely the price/feasability is marginal compared to a netbook, lesser than a laptop and on par with a Pi, except it can't compete in price and has a screen/keyboard?