07-08-2017, 01:11 PM
Apoc Wrote:I stopped in to an Office Max today and they one had one chromebook on display - the budget Samsung 3. Retail is dead.
I am using up 2/3 of my $600 newegg credit from my TV purchase on something for the house, so I just went ahead and bought the ASUS C302 with the remaining credit plus cash. It should be here around the end of the week.
I got the Asus last night and have spent about an hour playing around with it. It's definitely bigger than my Samsung tablet, and I initially thought I'd made a mistake, but it's actually the right size for portability around the house. I like the convertible nature (I'm typing this on the keyboard), but I do find it nearly impossible to hit the close tab button in chrome with the touchscreen. Chrome OS definitely takes a bit getting used to, but it's pretty shallow on options so there aren't a million things to re-learn. The only use case I haven't tried is copying downloaded videos onto the local drive to watch on airplanes. I've got 48 gigs free, so I don't think I'll even need to use the SD slot.
I think the one thing I'd like to do that I can't is update Quicken. I'm old school and record every transaction in the desktop product, so I can track where our money is going. It's installed on my Alienware and I can still use that, but I'd like the option of popping open my Asus and balancing my checking account in a few minutes (yes, I still balance it every month). It's not a deal breaker by any means.
So far, I'm happy with the purchase and can see saving my tablet for when my kid is old enough to use one.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth