I bought a Chromebook a couple of weeks ago during the
Amazon Prime sale, an Asus C200. I was quite pleased when it arrived, and I enjoyed playing around with it, but the real test was at an offsite meeting for
the DJ last week. The Cb was the only device I brought other than my iPad,
which I brought as a backup just in case, and, of course, my phone. Okay, let
me rephrase that. The Cb was the device I planned on using exclusively for the
days of the meeting, to see how it would fare under fire. Needless to say, all
a Cb can do is browser stuff, but in real life, what else is there? Or maybe
more to the point, in real life, what can’t be done via browser? The only time
mischief ensued was when we were sharing Google docs, and the email I use at
the DJ is not the same as my Google ID, and I had to go through a few hoops to
have multiple logins on the Cb. But I managed to do it. Overall verdict: I
really liked it. Very lightweight machine, fast, with long battery life,
capable of everything I needed to do. This will become my tabbing computer,
although there is one drawback, in that you can’t just plug it into a printer.
There are apparently conniptions one can go through to print, and I’ll try to
sort that out, although simply getting someone else to print on their machine
might be easier for those dreaded albeit inevitable paper ballots. Anyhow, this was my alternative to buying a new Macbook Air. I
saved about $800. Of course, I have now sold my soul to Google, but I can live
with that. They’re only getting what’s left over after my previous sale of same
to Apple.
After meditating for ages about possible buying an iPad
Mini, and saving a few hundred bucks there buying a Samsung Galaxy Tab 7-incher
that I’ve become quite fond of (although, while admittedly it lacks the
sophistication of the iPad, it nonetheless slaps down the Kindle Fire like the
helpless schnook the Fire obviously is), I managed to drop my regular iPad
Air so as to not only crack the screen but to leave it with sharp glassy ridges
that can slice your finger as you swipe. Argggggh. I really can’t live without
an iPad, so I replaced that yesterday with an iPad Air 2, which I can turn on
with my thumbprint. Thus I ate up a lot of the profits from not buying the Mac,
but you can’t win them all.
I think I mentioned somewhere over the summer that I finally
upgraded my MacBook Pro to the latest OS, and it took, so even as I only
probably drag it along in the checked baggage so to speak as a backup,
everything is now up to date in my personal Kansas City when it comes to
technology. I’ve gone about as fer as I intend to go.
Anybody need any tabbing done?
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