how can Drive really be useful without scanning docs into Drive? i am sure thats not lost on google. so for it ever to be really useful those hp's need to be able to scan with chromebook. i looked and found hp printers that work well with google print services on the chromebook. for me i use the hound out of drive and my scanner and acrobat. to set it up you just sign into your google account. Mine seems to have developed a weird fault in that it will sometimes crash during sleep which is really annoying as when im on the train it needs an online connection to log back in (you don't need this if you have simply put the device to sleep). Hopefully Google will work on getting some more functionality offline in the future as it does automatically update itself. Working offline is one of those things it sort of does but you can see that really it's an online only type device. It's light and the keyboard is one of the best, im adding this as really this is a mobile word processor when offline at the moment. It's a good machine, it's cheap, battery lasts forever and the screen is a good size.

Apart from that it really doesn't do much more than that. You can edit and view tasks and the gmail offline extension sort of works.

Offline you can listen to music, watch videos (not sure on the range of videos as ive only tried H264), open PDF, you can create and edit google word documents offline, access and view google spreadhseets (can't edit yet). The chromebook can't install any application unless it's from the chrome webstore, these are basically either extensions to Chrome or simply links to the web site. It's very fast and response and can run a lot of things well, onto your question. I have the Samsung Chromebook which i got for ?229, it has the Exyons Processor so is the same power as my Note2 Phone. (The heartburn comes with the lack of a visible mouse pointer in VB, as ChromeOS does NOT support hardware acceleration by design.) With my Q6600, I've dedicated two CPU cores to the VM along with 1.5 GB of RAM - if you have a newer Intel or AMD quad-core, the same settings should work for you. There are specific apps available for the ChromeOS (same apps work in the current Google Chrome as well) for offline usage I've been kicking around one of the vanilla builds (in fact, 3664, the current one) in VirtualBox (Windows 8 圆4 host). Also wondering if you can access Google Play. So if anyone actually has a Chromebook could you please list the programs you have and if they work offline or just online only. I have tried searching online and haven't found much. Wondering if you can at least play videos while offline and if you can run programs such as xampp. I am also wondering what use a Chromebook has while online. But, after seeing that everything is stored on the cloud except for the OS I was wondering what use a Chromebook has while 'offline'. I have been thinking of getting a Chromebook.

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