wa8yxm wrote:
Gee... Visited Staples to get some ink for ye old printer.. Noticed the deal of the week. Came back a few days later (Pay day, still same week) and for 250+ tax walked out with a Toshiba Satellite C55D 4 Gigs Ram, USB 3.0, 500 Gigs of HDD. 15.6 screen (i think) and Widders 8.1. Chromebooks might have saved me a few bucks but the best price I could find at the time on a half gig HD was .. Well 250 bucks with the TOS wrapper.. or 350 for just the drive in a paper wrapper (Shipping box). So I got the cheaper drive.. The half gig drive is doing exactly what I wanted it for (Storing movies) and .. Well the computer was better than free.
As I mentioned in one of my previous posts, you can store files on a USB HDD, if you shun the 100G cloud drive from Google.
I just add bunches of apps on my Chromebook without costing me a penny. The investment on a Windows PC never stops at the purchase price.
I say for a student that on tight budget, a chromebook is perfect. The only thing it cannot do maybe some Power Point Presentation, but you can use Impress, if you install Chrubuntu on it. Actually students push the sale of Chromebooks leaps and bounds right now.
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