Chromebook or Windows laptop

welshdragon

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After some views.

My daughter, almost 7, wants a Chromebook as she uses one in school and wants to access Hwb etc at home.

I am very supportive of this and it was led by her.

So, do I get a Chromebook OR get a decent windows laptop that becomes more a general family one albeit my boy and I both have pc’s.

The Chromebook is familiar to her and she knows how to use it, whereas a windows laptop has more of a learning curve but I could try and set her acc up to make it easier.

What are people’s thoughts?
 
I tried ChromeOS Flex on a fairly basic HP i3 laptop and it was a very easy and simple setup that turned a "normal" laptop into a Chromebook. Just check it will run the apps that you need as I only did it as an experiment to check out Flex.
 
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Why not setup an account on your windows PC and if you daughter likes it then get her a notebook PC otherwise stick to what she is comfortable with which is the Chromebook.
 
Both good points. She’s comfortable with a Chromebook. Found an i3 Asis one for £250 new. I’m assuming like regular systems the better ram/cpu the better performance or is it a very low impact os?
 
welshdragon said:
Both good points. She’s comfortable with a Chromebook. Found an i3 Asis one for £250 new. I’m assuming like regular systems the better ram/cpu the better performance or is it a very low impact os?
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If you mean Flex then yeah the 2 core i3 with 8 GB RAM and a basic 256GB SSD was very usable on Flex but sluggish with Windows as you would expect.
 
bimbleuk said:
If you mean Flex then yeah the 2 core i3 with 8 GB RAM and a basic 256GB SSD was very usable on Flex but sluggish with Windows as you would expect.
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Its the

ASUS Chromebook 14 CX3402CBA 14.0" Full HD Chromebook Laptop (Intel i3-1215U, 8GB LPDDR5 RAM, 128GB SSD, Backlit Keyboard, Google Chrome Operating System)​

 
I had a Google Pixel Book GO when it came out.

Fantastic machine. Absolutely loved it. Battery lasted on standby for days and never felt sluggish.

It did get difficult and frustrating trying to run some Linux apps which is the reason I sold it. But for documents and web, no issues at all and sometimes wish I still had it!
 
I think I am sold. As an interim measure my daughter is using my logi mx keys and a mouse with her ipad but I think a proper laptop is the way forward
 
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