Chromebook - To buy or not to buy

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hcwizz

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Hello,

I am currently a student at college and have a 17" vaio, which is quite impractical to lug around to do my work on, but brilliant apart from that.

I'm looking for a small notebook to take to college allowing me to complete work, research and surf the web.

I found the samsung 3 Series Chromebook, which I really like the look of, but I have heard it wouldn't fulfil all my requirements and essentially be a waste of money!

Would really appreciate any thoughts or other options, budget is around that of the Chromebook, so £200 - £300,

Thank You
 
The problem (or benefit) with Chromebooks is that they're essentially a bootable web browser. There's a bit more to the OS than that but that's basically what it is. If you're looking to run Windows programs you're out of luck.

Buy this if you're going to be working entirely on the web.
 
The chromebook will be a second laptop, with windows on my vaio, so the Chrome OS isn't so much of an issue,
The main issue will be if it can cope with college and student life, Word processing (I've heard of google docs?), web surfing which it is basically made for and importantly Video Streaming, which I've heard can be laggy?
I have also heard that the Chromebook can randomly reboot if the memory runs out? which would be a bit of a pain,
I know that a lot of people have returned Chromebooks finding them unsuitable for what they need, but with it being a second laptop I think it should be okay, but don't want to waste my money as such,
Thank you
 
Haven't used them, so it's nice to get some ones opinion,
I'm glad as I do like a little bit of YouTube ,
Thank you for your replies! :)
 
I am considering getting a chromebook for a second computer right now and I know that even though it cannot do as much as my Linux machine I am still going to want to play around with it. In my research heavy 720p videos don't run smoothly and many developer tools google is releasing wont run on the ARM cpu which makes me wonder what other compatibility issues would come from using arm. So I am now considering a Hp Chromebook with intel based CPU which I have read to be a little bit more powerful and is only $329 and is under a 1" thick and 14" screen still makes it portable. Downside is only about 4.25 to 4.5 hours battery compared to the 6 hours from Samsung. I don't know when but I have heard google showing it off to developers is a quad core ARM Samsung Chromebook and I guess we are suppose to here something this month.
 
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