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  1. I'm still good with my Nexus 5 at the moment. The only thing on the horizon that is tempting me is the Sony Z3 compact but I've just bought the new laptop and I have a holiday to pay for so I think my gadget purchases are going to be on hold for a while.
  2. Originally posted by germcevoy:I'm still good with my Nexus 5 at the moment. The only thing on the horizon that is tempting me is the Sony Z3 compact but I've just bought the new laptop and I have a holiday to pay for so I think my gadget purchases are going to be on hold for a while.

    Gadgets are always tempting
    But I get your point.
  3. So if a computer manufacture would like to go ahead and make a 1080p IPS screened chromebook with an intel chip, that'd be great. Total convert/
  4. The Chromebook is staying. Nexus 7 now for sale.
  5. Had my Chromebook all boxed up to bring back the shop with a defect. It completely froze and locked up every 10 minutes requiring a reboot. Some google searching revealed a quirk with some ISP's DNS settings. Have switched this to Goggle's own and the problem has gone away. Very happy now.
  6. Well, HP are gonna send a box for me to ship it to them after something like five system recoveries resulting in about two hours of usage leading to another recovery.


  7. Hehe
  8. Nice. Not for me though. That market is still too young.
  9. Can't really see the point of one of those. It takes about two seconds to get your smartphone out of your pocket.
  10. Hey Gerard, just curious as to how you're liking the chromebook? I have a PC I built and a smartphone, and have kicked around the idea of getting a tablet for a while, but all I want is something that'll let me type stuff (often write lyrics and blog posts) and surf the internet.

    The chromebooks seem slick and affordable and I'm just curious what you think about em.
  11. I'm loving mine and haven't missed my tablet one bit so far. It all comes down to use case. I wasn't a regular windows or Mac user so there's nothing that I've sacrificed by getting a Chromebook.

    I hear they can be limiting for offline use so again it's something to consider depending on where you will be using it.

    I'm Hally to answer any more specific questions. It is a lot more 'normal' to use than some would have you believe.
  12. Originally posted by germcevoy:I'm loving mine and haven't missed my tablet one bit so far. It all comes down to use case. I wasn't a regular windows or Mac user so there's nothing that I've sacrificed by getting a Chromebook.

    I hear they can be limiting for offline use so again it's something to consider depending on where you will be using it.

    I'm Hally to answer any more specific questions. It is a lot more 'normal' to use than some would have you believe.

    Right on.

    I mean the big cons for tablets for me have always been:
    -my smartphone can do everything this can do
    -there's no keyboard

    And that's basically it. And like I said, I have a PC that I built which suits all of those Windows needs. I'm just looking for something I can sort of keep notes on, check email, surf the web, even use the chromecast I just bought with (even though my smartphone does that ). The biggest plus for me right now is that it's super affordable.

    I guess my questions may be:
    -What's the OS like? Hard to use? Easy to use? Barely need to use it at all?
    -How fast is it? I know most of them have a pretty small hard drive (like 16GB) and I'm wondering if just a few downloads will bog that baby down a little bit.
    -Just for something like writing notes, is it as easy as downloading a word processing google app and typing away and saving it as a doc?

    I'm sure I had a few more but that's all I can think of for now. Thanks for the help!
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