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Chromebooks

The Rise of Chromebooks For my birthday this year, I received a Chromebook.  Specifically an Acer Chromebook 15 ( Find it here ).  It has been a great addition to my collection.  They truly boot in seconds and it gets days on the battery.  You can easily do eight hours a day of work on this and go home and catch up on the news. Can you do work on this I can connect via a URL to my work if needed, I can edit documents using Google Docs.  I can surf the web.  Now, with the addition of Android apps, I have even more tools available to me.  I have configured Outlook for Android to check my work email.  I can use other tools available either in the Google Play Store or Chrome Store to access other applications that I use. Updates Updates are downloaded on a schedule which you can find here.   You will be prompted to restart, but again it takes seconds.  This is versus hours for the last Windows 1803 update.   If somethi...