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HP Chromebook – 10 Months in

Its been 10 months I realised yesterday since I took the plunge and bought myself a chromebook, its going reasonably well, files are all stored easily as are emails with Google, dont find that I have a lot of need for letter writing so Docs isn’t used massively by me either.

Machine is solid from HP and the battery still lasts at least a full working day on heavy/prolonged usage, the screen is becoming a bit irritating – 1366×768 was the max res of my SVGA monitor that I bought 8 years ago now and the panel does tire the eyes if used for a prolonged period, so the screen is letting it down I feel, thats an issue with chromebooks in general I think as we are only now seeing he adoption of IPS screens and HD resolutions, everything else has been fine on it to date, I have a mobile broadband dongle that just worked fine out of the box on it.

I haven’t had to workaround any websites on my chromebook to date, so it seems that on most of my daily browsing of the web, I tend to avoid anything that requires Java as a product I have come to realise, or failing that most websites I use regularly have in place workarounds now to negate that.  I haven’t had any other issues with the browsing of the machine and email has worked fine.

I would have negated the need for windows laptops completely if it was not for some of the little things that just cannot be done on a chromebook – RDP into a windows based machine, through an MS based VPN is just not possible at the moment, I can connect to my home machine fine with Chrome Remote Desktop, but Work is an impossibility because of the firewalls and lack of support for MS based VPNs.

I am still pleased with the purchase overall after nearly a year, its worked impeccably so far in what it does offer with minimal fuss.

By Richard

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