I am trying to replace my mom's dead PC with a Chromebook or Chromebox. The chief reason is that I have been really unhappy with the stability of Windows update for the past year or so and want something that is easier to maintain. She is also a good candidate because she usually just use it to surf the web. The problem is that I don't really have any personal experience with Chromebooks. I looked at them briefly when they were first introduce and thought they were a terrible idea that Google will kill off after a few years. Instead it has stuck around.:
Use Cases
* Browse the web, log into website like the bank.
* Video chat using Skype or other type of software. LIke to have about 720p or 1080p video chat. I have a Logitech C920.
* Play youtube video.
* Print to printers
* Scan document.
Some questions:
1. What sort of hardware will I need? I was thinking of just getting one of the cheap celeron with about 4 Gb of memory. Her oldcomputer was an ancient AMD-350 with 4 GB, everything these day would be faster. My concern is that Celeron may not be able to handle video conferencing.
2. How much storage will be needed? I was under the impression that most of the files gets store in the cloud, which means very little local storage is needed except for may be storing apps.
3. How do you print or scan? This is somewhat less important, there is still a headless PC sitting around her apartment, it can be repurpose to do print and scanning.
4. How important is a touch screen, especially if you need to occasionally run an Android app?
5. What's your experience with running Android App on chromebook?
Is there a way to experience a chromebook? I tried to play around with my kid's chromebook from their school, but it's too heavily locked down. I have installed Neverware on a VM, but it was too unstable to use. My thought is that I could try running things off Chrome and install chrome app to simulate using a chrome book, What do you think?
Paul
Use Cases
* Browse the web, log into website like the bank.
* Video chat using Skype or other type of software. LIke to have about 720p or 1080p video chat. I have a Logitech C920.
* Play youtube video.
* Print to printers
* Scan document.
Some questions:
1. What sort of hardware will I need? I was thinking of just getting one of the cheap celeron with about 4 Gb of memory. Her oldcomputer was an ancient AMD-350 with 4 GB, everything these day would be faster. My concern is that Celeron may not be able to handle video conferencing.
2. How much storage will be needed? I was under the impression that most of the files gets store in the cloud, which means very little local storage is needed except for may be storing apps.
3. How do you print or scan? This is somewhat less important, there is still a headless PC sitting around her apartment, it can be repurpose to do print and scanning.
4. How important is a touch screen, especially if you need to occasionally run an Android app?
5. What's your experience with running Android App on chromebook?
Is there a way to experience a chromebook? I tried to play around with my kid's chromebook from their school, but it's too heavily locked down. I have installed Neverware on a VM, but it was too unstable to use. My thought is that I could try running things off Chrome and install chrome app to simulate using a chrome book, What do you think?
Paul