Okay, so perhaps not all of you are jumping to get the Chromebook by Google, but I just got mine in the mail yesterday. If you are into "the cloud," it is a cheap ($500 for the version that gives you 100 mgs of free access a month and it obviously has wifi). It turns on in less than 10 seconds, and I quickly found an app that lets me split my windows so I can see two screens (which is big with me). It is a bit slow occasionally and you can't get Netflix (which my kids will care about) although that is coming, but if live on the cloud as I do it is 1/3rd the price of the Macbook Air (although you can't manipulate the screen as you will be able to do when it comes out in a few weeks). For my money it is also forcing me to do the few things I wasn't doing online (screen capture of pics and how to movies) on the Internet. Yes, I know I am ahead of people who still like to put their files on their computers, but the Chromebook is where we will all be in a few years. FINALLY, if you do purchase it, I found this
lengthy document explaining how it works.
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