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Sadly, I keep talking myself up to the nicer aluminium ones with touchscreen and ending up with a figure twice what I want to spend. Typical!
Then make the mistake of going to John Lewis and having a hands-on with the google Pixelbook ...
Now, if Apple could give us iOS apps on top of macOS that would be just perfect.
Just curious as to which IOS apps in particular?
Any of 'em really ... I find working through an app to be a much nicer thing than merely in a browser.
Ah, but with a Mac you don't need to work through a browser. There is a Mac App Store but you can also download and install software from the internet. It's rare that I use my browser for anything other than browsing and watching Netflix etc.
Ah, no ... I've got applications on my Mac. It's the simplified functionality of iOS apps that I really like. LaunchPad gives the impression that you can, but it's just an application launcher ... for applications, not (iOS) apps.
Okay ... eBay ... nope. Netflix? Nope. Expedia. Nope. VLC ... yes. Plex? Nope. Nectar? Nope. Granted, I can use a browser for all that stuff ... but that's not the point. I'd like to be able to move seamlessly from iOS to Mac. It'll come, I'm sure ... Apple have tried for years to slip all their OSes together, but each product they seem to end up with a new OS. WatchOS, tvOS, etc.
Google seem to be moving in the right direction. Certainly impressed with how it's coming together for Chrome OS.
Curious as to life was or is with a Chromebook?My trusty (and quite ancient) Netbook is practically dead. It's been on just about every holiday/trip for the last few years, big enough to hold a few films to watch on the plane and really just a browser to ... well browse ... for anything and everything.
As the years have gone by, more and more is web based ... in fact, very little is not. Many hotels we stay at now, we can just plug in an Amazon FireStick or output from phone to TV.
Finding something that runs Windows 7 now is just about impossible. Windows 10 is utter pap, so that puts practically everything out. Apple MacBook Air would be lovely, but I just can't justify that money to run a simple browser.
I tried Android ... and I'm impressed enough, almost jumped in for that Huawei Media Pad M3 with the HK speakers, but the tablet (even with a keyboard) is not quite right for me - I like typing a lot and I like a laptop, not a tablet with a keyboard. An iPad with a keyboard is just not quite right either.
I want something in the middle ...
Which left me with Android's slightly older and slightly less slick sibling: the Chromebook. Leaps and bounds over the last few years and a good number fully supporting the Google Play store for Android apps!
So ... all the apps of the tablet and a dedicated browser environment on a laptop?
Perfect!
After playing around with a few at Curry's, I'm sold. I've downloaded Chromium OS (from the curiously named Arnold the Bat) and tried out Neverware's CloudReady, but neither support the Google Play store.
Heart set on one now ...
Acer R13 is the frontrunner.
Anyone with direct experience, thoughts or otherwise is welcome to share.
Cheers!
Since starting this thread I've bought an ASUS C223. I'm very happy with it. Superb battery life and almost instant boot. The trackpad is annoying, but I like a mouse. I have the same grumbles with MacBooks. In terms of the OS, it does all I want - simply, be a browser on a lightweight computer.
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