Review of six Chromebooks for school

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Getting ready to purchase a laptop before classes start - for yourself or your kid? Considering a chromebook instead of a regular laptop? Over at ZDNet, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (SJVN) reviews six of the top Chromebooks and provides a couple of recommendations.

Chromebooks are increasingly well-suited to the classroom, with little maintenance or management overhead, a low cost, and much of what the typical user needs. In fact, now that Microsoft Office is an online web service, you can even access them from a Chromebook! This post was submitted using a Chromebook I intended to reformat and use with a Linux distro but haven't needed to re-image. If you can stomach being harnessed to Google's software ecosystem and services, there are lots of good reasons to check out Chromebooks, and the low price is just one of them. Over to SJVN with the rest.

Re: On the ropes (Score: 1)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-08-15 17:46 (#3W8)

I was on the ropes about blowing away my ChromeBox drive too. I even bought a second M.2 SSD so I wouldn't mess up the original drive. But, Google offers a really simple backup and restore from USB thumb drive directly from their UEFI.
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