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    So I bought a HP Chromebook.....

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    • DashrenderD
      Dashrender @Carnival Boy
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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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      • C
        Carnival Boy
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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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        • Bill KindleB
          Bill Kindle @Carnival Boy
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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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          • DashrenderD
            Dashrender @Bill Kindle
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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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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
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              No Java.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                last edited by

                @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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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @Carnival Boy
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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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                  • Minion QueenM
                    Minion Queen
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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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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @Minion Queen
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                      @Minion-Queen Dominica can test that for you too.

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                      • Minion QueenM
                        Minion Queen
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                        Everything I am seeing also says not 1080p or HD compatible is this right?

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @Minion Queen
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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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                          • Bill KindleB
                            Bill Kindle @Minion Queen
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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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                            • Bill KindleB
                              Bill Kindle @Minion Queen
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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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                              • DashrenderD
                                Dashrender
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                                why wouldn't you use chromecast?

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
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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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                                  • DashrenderD
                                    Dashrender
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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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                                    • Bill KindleB
                                      Bill Kindle @scottalanmiller
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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.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller
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                                        Chromebox is just a desktop form factor Chromebook.

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