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  • Basically, a Chromebook pretty much runs Chrome and that's it. There is actually quite a bit that runs on Chrome (for instance this is a pretty good text editor - Caret https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/caret/fljalecfjciodhpcledpamjachpmelml?hl=en ) but for a large number of things such as editing photos, managing a music library, etc they're not much cop.

    Hard drives are preety small (normally a 32GB ssd), they're obviously more designed to work with the cloud, they integrate ery well with Google Drive.

    The upside is that they're very stable, good battery life, cheaper than a standard laptop, a very secure OS. If you're technically minded it's easy to install linux as a second OS.

    The downside is that there's a good chance that there's at least one program that you need that you won't be able to run.

    I'd say that they're a good second computer (maybe view as an ipad with a proper keyboard) but you wouldn't want it as your sole machine.

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