Post by naby64 on Aug 3, 2014 22:08:43 GMT
DD and I were out shopping yesterday and happened to be at Sams. She browsed around and then found me exclaiming rather excitedly that she had "for real" found her Christmas present. We had just bought her birthday present about 15 minutes before(it is this Thursday). New Chacos. So anyway, back to Christmas. She said she wanted a Chromebook. A what? And then I realized what she was asking for. So off we go to look. I am hooked just on it's color. Tiffany blue...sigh...
She starts showing me what it will do. How she can use it at school. Etc. I start thinking, hmmmmm, maybe this is what I can replace my old laptop with. So we called DH and walked out of there with 2 of them. We get home and she gave the box to her daddy and said here you go. You can keep it until Christmas. Unless you want to be be able to use it at school next week. He said he didn't care but to remember that come Christmas morning the EMPTY box would be under the tree. She took it to her room and played with it during the evening. When I woke her up this morning, she said I probably wouldn't like it and may want to take it back. Why? It really doesn't do anything unless hooked to wi-fi. You can do connectivity, but it is not something I will be doing.
I will only be using it at home, work, my mom's house, at the beach on vacay. AND all of those places have wifi hookup. All of my pics can be loaded and saved to the "google cloud". There are some low level editing apps I can use in the google store. She said you can't load itunes. Ok, I've got Pandora and Spotify. No Skype app but that can be done on my phone.
So what am I missing here? The ONLY thing I can think of that I would like for it to be able to do is for me to load my Sil software on it and use my Portrait in my scraphouse outside.
She starts showing me what it will do. How she can use it at school. Etc. I start thinking, hmmmmm, maybe this is what I can replace my old laptop with. So we called DH and walked out of there with 2 of them. We get home and she gave the box to her daddy and said here you go. You can keep it until Christmas. Unless you want to be be able to use it at school next week. He said he didn't care but to remember that come Christmas morning the EMPTY box would be under the tree. She took it to her room and played with it during the evening. When I woke her up this morning, she said I probably wouldn't like it and may want to take it back. Why? It really doesn't do anything unless hooked to wi-fi. You can do connectivity, but it is not something I will be doing.
I will only be using it at home, work, my mom's house, at the beach on vacay. AND all of those places have wifi hookup. All of my pics can be loaded and saved to the "google cloud". There are some low level editing apps I can use in the google store. She said you can't load itunes. Ok, I've got Pandora and Spotify. No Skype app but that can be done on my phone.
So what am I missing here? The ONLY thing I can think of that I would like for it to be able to do is for me to load my Sil software on it and use my Portrait in my scraphouse outside.
