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mystes posted:Also, are people really using chromebooks outside of education in 2017? I bought a cheap bay trail one a few years ago and since I have it lying around I'm using it with linux in situations (like if I'm going to need it to leave it in a locker at my gym) where I don't want to worry about my better laptop getting stolen. At the time, chromebooks were the only dirt cheap laptops that had solid state (although just emmc) storage, and they had better build quality than cheap windows laptops, but now there are more options on the windows side so I don't think it really makes sense to buy a chromebook just to install linux on it. Also, chromebooks now seem to be as or more expensive than equivalent windows laptops. I’m speaking as someone who’s in the market to buy a Chromebook. I’m a publisher. I write and edit and publish books online. It’s my job. For the heavy lifting of making covers and publishing, I require photoshop and a mac (the best publishing program is mac only called Vellum). Considering any given month I’m juggling three of four releases, it also means I need Scrivener for the heavy lifting of editing and and all that. All of that I do on my 5k iMac. It’s the best tool for that job... however, my ancient (2009) MacBook Pro barely works, so for coffee shop writing, and for around my apartment as opposed to my office, I use an iPad Air 2 (which I’m writing this on,) and my iphone. That all being said, for traveling and coffee shops, I want a laptop again, if nothing else for the form factor. So I look at the new apple laptops and go “I can pay a grand (or more) for a laptop that has a worse keyboard than the one on my laptop from almost a decade ago, for something that all I really need to do on it is write and listen to Spotify”. Which lead me to chrome books. Now, a low res screen one does not appeal to me, but the Samsung pro, Or the one I most likely will get (HP G1 13 inch) has a screen that’s the equivalent of an apple Retina display. Now it does not have my preferred writing program, but for actual drafting all I really require is a black screen and green text. There’s a free google program (writer) that does just that, and syncs easily with my Imac. Copy paste over to scrivener, and it’s really pretty much seamless. Not to mention, even at it’s premium price ($650 brand new, and the refurbished knock it down to like $400) that beats any of the mac laptops I looked at.
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mystes posted:My original goal was basically just to do word processing, so your use case makes sense LionArcher. You’re issues cover my past fears and why I’ve held off. However I’ll be in wifi spots basically always, and on top of that, nolvr is web based and has a great offline mode. I’m going to test if more thoroughly during nanowrimo to see if it’s worth the price. (Its basically a web based scrivener).
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Atomizer posted:
Oh come on. I’m not ready to buy this till December. Grumbles. Okay, M3 or M5?
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Okay thread, looking at all the options I’m thinking I want a Thinkpad chromebook 13. Any rumors of an updated one? I care about the keyboard the most, and screen second. Considering for full HD they coast around $580, I’m a little leery. especially if a new one is on the horizon. Also, I’m debating between that and an Acer 14, and the price difference (almost 300 bucks) is nuts. In terms of speed, I only need it to run a word processor, Spotify, and have a few other tabs so the speed of those Chromebooks should be fine right?
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Can the HP G1 with the m3 please go back on woot? Pretty please. I don’t want to pay $600 for one. Thanks.
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May 23, 2018 06:06
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Never mind on the HP, acer just announced 4 new Chromebooks, all of which look good.
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May 23, 2018 20:33
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Atomizer posted:Man these show up so often I don't even bother linking them anymore. I'll try to remember to though the next time I see them. Looks like they new acers won’t be out till late summer? Also, I was going to get a regular Acer 13, but i have a question about the spin. Is there a chrome app that allows you to mark up docs with a pen? Like make edits? Since I’ll be using it for writing 90% of the time, that might be worth the extra $100.
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May 24, 2018 02:50
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Atomizer posted:Is this like taking documents and writing on them as if you were writing in the margins of a book or something? It's not an activity I've done myself but I did a little searching; maybe "kami" might work (and it apparently has an extension), squid has an Android app, and maybe any of these or these might work? The nice thing is that you could try any of the extensions in any Chrome installation on a PC you have now, and you can try Squid on a phone or tablet. Thanks I’ll look into it.
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May 24, 2018 03:19
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Where the hell are the new Acer 13 Chromebooks? I want one already!
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Atomizer posted:The whole situation sounds a little wonky but I'm glad it at least appears to be working fine now. Is that low end model still a good buy? I’d have at most 10 tabs open at once. Mostly as a coffee shop writing Spotify machine. I was planning on getting the Acer 13 (non spin) but at $650 I’m not into it  . If only they had been $500 like they had originally said they would be priced. Will the pentium hold up with chrome for another few years you think?
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Atomizer posted:Check the 2nd post in the thread, I did a writeup about all the main HP 13 variants (note there's a base model with only a FHD display but I've never actually seen it for sale.) Keep in mind that was written with the Pentium model $80 higher in price, so I'd say go for it for $250. Nothing new at $250 is anywhere near as nice as the HP 13, and it's fine for your stated uses. The OS doesn't get more bloated with time, and they actually add features (such as the Android app support that this model now has. You'll like the display and keyboard, and even the touchpad is nice. The speakers are decent for a laptop, although you'd most likely want to use headphones for music. Okay perfect thanks I think i will!
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Where the hell are the new acer chrome books?! I want a 13 with the HD screen
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