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Has anyone any experience of chromebooks?I was toying with the idea of getting a refurbished laptop for around the £200 mark then noticed chromebooks and wondered if I should get one of them,it would be for surfing the net and banking,I have a desktop for office stuff.
Do they have decent enough screen/graphics


I'm tempted by an HP 11 g5 second hand
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  • ballyblack
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    edited 22 September 2018 at 10:30AM
    yes I switched from a PC to a faster chromebook.

    Basic but does all I want

    Was fed up with windows and their updates etc

    as regards screen the more you pay the better it will be ie HD

    Try to go for the 4GB Ram models


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  • System
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    Our son recently needed to replace his laptop and elected to buy a chromebook. After about a couple of months use, he is more than satisfied with it. Don't know model ect, but will ask. If I needed to replace my HP Envy W10, I would look at chromebook too.
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  • Thanks guys,I shall have a good think about this and let you know what I decide to do
  • wilson1973 wrote: »
    Thanks guys,I shall have a good think about this and let you know what I decide to do

    Another thread? Come on, is it really that difficult?
    Don't waste money on a Chromebook. If your budget was £60, then perhaps.
    If you've a problem with Windows, then just install Ubuntu Linux or similar, for free.
    No offence meant, but in general, the people who advise the buying of a Chromebook simply don't have a clue. We've had this discussion before. You are just paying over the top for cheap hardware and a locked down device.

    Get a decent laptop that can do everything a Chromebook can and more.

    The 12.5" screen Dell on your other thread for £180 is a good small machine, if you are looking at a smaller screen
  • arciere
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    For once I agree with EveryWhere, must be the weather.
    Chromebooks let you browse the web, use some offline apps if there is no internet access, that's about it. But there is pretty much nothing more they do that a normal Windows computer at a similar price level can't.
  • ballyblack
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    the people who advise the buying of a Chromebook simply don't have a clue.

    I have a capable Win 10 Pc and a laptop but I use the Chromebook more often.

    Especially if I just want to quickly 'browse the internet and do on-line banking' which was the OP's requirement
  • arciere
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    ballyblack wrote: »
    I have a capable Win 10 Pc and a laptop but I use the Chromebook more often.

    Especially if I just want to quickly 'browse the internet and do on-line banking' which was the OP's requirement
    But if you only had the Chromebook, you would be unable to do many of the things you now do on the Windows computers.
    On the other hand, if you didn't have the Chromebook, you could still browse the web just as fast as you do now on the Chromebook (unless the two computers are considerably different in terms of performance)
  • ballyblack
    ballyblack Posts: 5,136 Forumite
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    refer back to the original post, matter closed for me

    it would be for surfing the net and banking,I have a desktop for office stuff.
  • arciere
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    ballyblack wrote: »
    refer back to the original post, matter closed for me

    Yes, I'm not questioning that. The thing is that you can have a device that can do much more for the same price, that's all. Whether you will be doing that 'much more' is another thing, but I wouldn't be paying the same price for being able to do less.
    But again, opinions, that's what I would do, people might consider other aspects.
  • I know what you're saying I have a desktop upstairs,I'm a full time carer at home for my mother who is in a hospital bed downstairs so it's for me to surf the web when I am sat(not for hours on end as that would be ignorant) with her and she likes to be shown old places from where she grew up,also I can show her items of clothing that I can buy for her online,and so I felt a chromebook may suit me,I wouldn't be buying a new one
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