Google Chromebook

The book I read to research this post was My Google Chromebook by Michael Miller which is an excellent book which I bought from kindle. This book tells you all about the Chromebook and has lots of tutorials showing you how to do the various tasks on it. There are  currently 2 companies making Chromebooks, Samsung & Acer & there is also a desktop version called the Chromebox. These computers do away with the hard drive & dvdrom drive found in most computers. They use cloud computing and even the operating isn't installed on the computer but is run via your broadband connection. Most cloud computer applications work quite happily with it. Any software you use is a web application and your work is stored on these sites. You can also store it on a USB flash drive. These computers have a solid state system memory of 16 GB. There are many vendors offering cloud computing applications, among them Quickbooks, Microsoft & Zoho. At present there are cloud based photo editing applications but these are a little limited in what they do compared to retail software like Photoshop. The operating system is based on Lynux & Unix & to make it user friendly they have tried to make the layout of the Chrome Operating System similiar to the Chrome Internet Browser. Some Chromebooks come with 3G so you can go directly onto the internet & others just have Wi-Fi. The Chromebook has a 12 inch screen & is very light. They are similiar to netbooks in not having a dvdrom drive. One thing worth pointing is it will only work in conjunction with the internet & you must have a fairly quick broadband otherwise you will find the cloud software running very slowly.