Wait... 32gb? What version of Windows is it?
That's a bit left over, but not a lot. Might be worth upgrading the drive or maybe picking up a ~250GB SSD for around $150 and swapping it out. 10-16gb is not a lot of free space when you consider Office apps and the other stuff most people use.
You think they're in an uproar now, just wait until the game's released and they find out all the DLC is already on the disc.
And was this a special Black Friday deal? I havent seen a 14 chromebook for less than $300. Looking now and I see Amazon has some for $275...
Not 200, but close.
Yupp full windows 8.1. All in all I had 18 gb left over to use, and it has a SD card slot for expansion up to 64 GBs. I am just using it for school, and I got it for $200 since I had a student email I got a student discount. After taxes and buy office I spent $305 out the door. If you get the Stream 13, it comes with office for free, however the graphics card and processor is half of the 14"
I would probably buy my wife the 13 one right now if not for that god awful mouse pad. The lack of buttons make those things all but useless IMO. Since she mainly uses the computer on the couch a wireless mouse isn't much of an alternative.
The problem isn't the buttonless mouse pad style, but rather that most non-Mac computers do a shitty job with the functionality. The Mac touchpad works great even without buttons. Whether the HP has a good touchpad I dunno, though.
I got my wife an 11 stream over the holidays and it's not a mac touchpad (none are) but certainly use-able.
As I said the other day, the HP laptop my wife got from her work has an astoundingly terrible trackpad. Godawful. Not sure if the mentioned cheap laptops use the same design, but probably? You pretty much have to use a mouse with it, unless you like being angry.
He did, but you missed a few important words he said right after chomebook.
I just got to work on an Acer machine much like your HP Stream was nicer then I would have expected in a $300 or under machine. It was a coworkers kids computer. He had it pretty screwed up with malware. If he didn't play Minecraft I would have suggested to her getting a Chromebook next time. Not having to deal with viruses and Windows updates is such a pleasure. Picked up a Chromebook Acer C720 about a year ago I guess. Other then the small screen my wife loves the machine. Lightweight decent battery life etc. Will probably grab a newer Chromebook sooner or later maybe with a larger screen. For simple surfing they are pretty nice.
I guess I didnt know there was such a thing as a chromebook killer so I glossed over the killer part. I am not a tech geek like the rest of you and hadnt researched new laptops in a while. Never knew they came out with this whole line. Last I saw they were laughing at google for coming out with chromebooks. I guess they were making too much money then so microsoft had to do something?
I went to the MS store... they had hundreds of them. Plus the online listing goes in and out of stock fairly frequent. If you can't find the 14, the 11" and 13" are pretty good too.
So the new streams still get viruses and shit and chromebooks dont? That is why I was looking at chromebooks to begin with as I dont want to have to mess with any updates to software or anything.
The thing you have to be careful with chromebooks is compatibility issues with things like office and other programs. The fact that windows came out with a full windows "netbook" that is 11", 13" and 14" at the same price or cheaper than chromebooks is amazing. These HP's if you read the reviews are getting very high marks due to price and what it packs in, I love mine so far and it does so much! This coming from an Apple apologist who owns an Imac, Iphone, Ipad, and had a macbook for 7 years as well
It is a very basic OS that nobody would waste their time with viruses. If you are only trying to surf the web and nothing else, chromebooks are good. But if I can get a full windows laptop for the exact same price and run Steam, my games, and program I need for school as well as several other things and the apps that windows has versus just the google store that are compatible... it's not a good value.
What level are you at? I'm on ng++ at 189 and I just have to rush all the rooms looking for silver chests or mini bosses. I still have 8 blueprints left and I'm not excited about the 15 death trophy.
Yeah, I wouldnt do anything but surf the net on it. I have a laptop from work for anything serious. And I dont play any games on PC. So chromebook is for me then.
HA. I am around level 150 and havent even beaten the game once!
Googledocs works just fine on a Chromebook and can do anything that Office can. While I agree there are things that it can't do, like Steam, using Office as a reason is really not a valid argument.
My Chromebook does fine and it's one of the older models. It's going to vary quite a bit by manufacturer and age will also be a big factor.
PM me if you would have any interest in a used one. My wife is pressing me to get a Windows machine for my oldest. I might be getting rid of his.
This is exactly what I do with mine. Works great for surfing and using the Google apps.
Keep track of the PSNOT pinball tournament!
I can drag a tab into the bookmark bar in my Mac Chrome. Pretty sure I've done it at home too on my PC.
Dont wait for me if you find anyone to buy it. I wont be buying anything for a few months...
Chrome OS is a much simpler operating system. I haven't heard of any reports of malware and viruses targeting Chrome OS.
Any sandwich place puts that place to shame.
