Now this guy is a Chrome book specialist

These are the models he recommends. Jan 9th 2018 pretty current eh ...every single one has 4G RAM ...strange that

https://www.ultrabookreview.com/4507-be ... s-reviews/

Dell Refurbished Chromebook 11 3120 11.6" Chromebook, 2.58 GHz Intel Celeron N2840, 16 GB SSD, 4 GB DDR3, Chrome OS

2.58 GHz Intel Celeron N2840 Dual-core processor
4 GB DDR3 RAM memory
16 GB Solid State Drive storage
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Macdoc wrote:Now this guy is a Chrome book specialist

These are the models he recommends. Jan 9th 2018 pretty current eh ...every single one has 4G RAM ...strange that

https://www.ultrabookreview.com/4507-best-chromebooks-reviews/

I note that the Asus Chromebook C202 with 2GB of RAM fellto linked to in the opening post is one of three models in the under $200 section the author regards as worth keeping an eye out for.

The way kids treat their machines it is amazing that they still work. Cheap and sturdy verging on the venerable brick shithouse is what is required and this sounds as close as you can get and cheap enough.

How's the word processor and Excel analog? Can you easily convert MS docs and spreadsheets? I don't do that much with them any more, but there's a LOT of old stuff I still need.

I don't like being that tied in to Google, but what the fuck, cheap is cheap.

They seem to import MS files well in my experience - you can try them on Chrome on the PC

https://docs.google.com
https://sheets.google.com

I shall give that a try. Nearly time for a new laptop, may be a CB would work.

If it just communications and minor office work they are fine. Dont go gaming though.

I've got one of those mini-Nintendo thingys with Super Mario on it, if that counts as gaming, otherwise the most gamey I get is solitare.

The Chromebook runs Android apps. Mine runs the few casual Android games I've tried - Angry Birds and the like. I'd get a porkier 4Gb Chromebook than the C202 if was my only machine.