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Reg man confesses: I took my wife out to choose a laptop for Xmas. NOOOO

roy lovelock

I decided about a year ago to get my wife a chromebook - shes ok on a computer but not tech savvy.

I had a few reasons for choosing the chromebook over a windows / mac.

First and foremost being - it works, i don't need to constantly check for viruses, updates, adware, the machine does exactly what she needs it for, that little bit of shopping and checking emails.

She even uses it as a media centre and does all her documents on the machine.

I have various windows machines but couldn't make the switch to windows 8, tried it for a few weeks then returned the machine and have since switched over to a mac book pro, i wish i had done it years ago.

I think chromebooks get a rough deal, we now have a couple of them in the house and they are the most used machines - instant on, any account can sign in, and the cloud service works fantastically. Even when we went on holiday with no access to the internet the offline mode worked well for my daughter - she loaded it with her music and videos and was kept entertained in the wet summer holiday we had in aug.

Not always does cheap mean bad, the chromebooks are cheap yes but far from bad.

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