So I bought a HP Chromebook.....
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@Dashrender said:
Bill and others, what are you using for email?
I'm guessing Scott uses OWA only on chromebooks?
I've got gmail, OWA and Outlook.com accounts. Just installed the Office web app shortcuts last night, wife tried them this morning and when I full screened the UI she was impressed, didn't see the difference in the chromebook opposed to her Windows 7 laptop.
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I'm wondering if we could get away with these in our office on the next hardware refresh (5 years from now). Is there a Citrix plug in? Does it run Java?
This might be doable for those who only use the web based apps, and don't work in MS Office, etc.
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5 years! Its a bit early to be planning. I did go to a talk at Google a while ago by a large London local government who had given all their staff one and largely ditched Windows - several thousand employees. So it can be done.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
5 years! Its a bit early to be planning. I did go to a talk at Google a while ago by a large London local government who had given all their staff one and largely ditched Windows - several thousand employees. So it can be done.
Yeah I'm not really planning, just thinking out loud.
What are those governments doing for file sharing? Did they all move to Google Docs? no thanks on that!
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Yeah Google docs. It only really makes sense if you go all in with Google, in my opinion. Although I don't see why O365 wouldn't work pretty well.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Yeah Google docs. It only really makes sense if you go all in with Google, in my opinion. Although I don't see why O365 wouldn't work pretty well.
You do have local storage too, just buy large SD cards
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@Bill-Kindle said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
Yeah Google docs. It only really makes sense if you go all in with Google, in my opinion. Although I don't see why O365 wouldn't work pretty well.
You do have local storage too, just buy large SD cards
To what end? Granted I haven't used a Chromebook since Gen1, so I have no idea what the local storage would be for, save maybe offline pictures, and a few offline Google Docs assuming the apps will run offline?
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No Java.
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@Dashrender said:
@Carnival-Boy said:
5 years! Its a bit early to be planning. I did go to a talk at Google a while ago by a large London local government who had given all their staff one and largely ditched Windows - several thousand employees. So it can be done.
Yeah I'm not really planning, just thinking out loud.
What are those governments doing for file sharing? Did they all move to Google Docs? no thanks on that!
Many do. But Office 365 works too.
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@Carnival-Boy said:
Yeah Google docs. It only really makes sense if you go all in with Google, in my opinion. Although I don't see why O365 wouldn't work pretty well.
We don't go all in Google and still find them somewhat useful for work. But we have so much internal infrastructure that they don't work for that we don't use them for that. If you are pure web based they work great.
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@Bill-Kindle can you watch movies from Amazon on it? My desktop hooked to my tv in my livingroom bit the dust. Looking at possibly putting in a Chrome Box.
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@Minion-Queen Dominica can test that for you too.
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Everything I am seeing also says not 1080p or HD compatible is this right?
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@Minion-Queen said:
Everything I am seeing also says not 1080p or HD compatible is this right?
That depends in the specific model not ChromeOS itself.
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@Minion-Queen said:
@Bill-Kindle can you watch movies from Amazon on it? My desktop hooked to my tv in my livingroom bit the dust. Looking at possibly putting in a Chrome Box.
In theory you should be able to, but I haven't tried because I have a feeling that Flash will haunt and not allow it to play nice. I might try it later and let you know for sure.
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@Minion-Queen said:
Everything I am seeing also says not 1080p or HD compatible is this right?
The model of HP I have does this with HDMI out. I play HD videos from youtube all day.
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why wouldn't you use chromecast?
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Chromecast is Android. Chromebox is ChromeOS. So one acts like an embedded system and one acts mostly like a full OS. So different use cases.
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I thought we were simply talking about hooking a Chromebook to a TV to watch videos? Why connect your Chromebook directly instead of using a ChromeCast? or a Chromebox?
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@scottalanmiller said:
Chromecast is Android. Chromebox is ChromeOS. So one acts like an embedded system and one acts mostly like a full OS. So different use cases.
You can cast from Chrome, there's an extension for it. But you also have HDMI out on the HP 14" model and most other Chromebooks.
