OTish; Laptops

[Fredxxx]

?? No you don't. I suggest you look at Libre Office.

[Simon Brown]

Doesn?t happen with Apple.

[Simon Brown]

But they can be used independently of the internet connection and use it only when they need to connect to the outside world. Chromebooks generally can't.

[Simon Brown]

But quite adequate for what you want to do.

Not if you are going to use the equivalent with your chromebook, you can do that for free on you windows laptop too.

The main downside for you with a chromebook is that they mostly only do the word and excel type stuff when connected to the internet.

With a windows laptop you don?t have to be connected to the internet to be able to try some possibilities on you spreadsheet when discussing your quote with a client etc.

[Tim Watts]

+1 I have not used Word, Excel or PP for at least 5 years - just libreoffice - and that includes dealing and resending work's MS office documents.

[Huge]

Ditto.

[Bod]

If your internet goes down while using a Chromebook, the Chromebook becomes an illuminated ornament.

[Tim Watts]

That's not totally true - it does handle some offline work.

[Bod]

Some? Like what?

[The Natural Philosopher]

..and windows laptops arent cheaper..

[The Natural Philosopher]

since just about the only reason most people buy Windows is to get Word compatibility, if they go libre office they might as well install linux from the get go.

[The Natural Philosopher]

For sure does. When was the last security update to a power PC machine?

[Simon Brown]

How do you feel about google snooping on everything you do ?

[Huge]

Why do you bother tormenting the poor man? Everything he posts is wrong.

[Davey]

In a nutshell! Although when I moved to Libre Office from Excel, I found it to be more clunky. But it does all I need.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Agreed. I am no fan of MS office OR libre office.

The word processor is too feature full for most purposes and absurdly quirky, and I now tend to use it just to generate plain text, and if I want a well laid out doc use Scribus.

The spreadsheets are also quirky at the UI level and unpleasant. I use them as little as possible. Frank;y if UI have a complex job to do I generally reach for a C compiler...

[dennis]

You can buy a perfectly usable win8.1 laptop for about £170. Or a win8.1 tablet for about £90. How much is a cromebook?

[tony sayer]

Gave up with Open orifice and Libre office, use this now and its free 'tho there is a paid for version that does a bit more...

[Tim Watts]

Have you read the link?

[Tim Watts]

No they buy Windows because that's what it came with... And they don't know about any other options, except Apple.