looking for something portable for the wife to use for light business and browsing.
a chromebook would do I think, as she only tends to use google drive for her stuff, but does use MS office a fair bit.
This got me thinking if there was anything in the £150-250 price bracket that's worth considering. something like a HP stream 13 for example was my other option.
looking for something with as decent battery life and speed as the budget allows.
ideally i'd put her on a surface pro, but it's a tad out of our price bracket.
any thoughts?
Depends on her use of Office really, Google Docs is absolutely fine for my business use. Other than that Chromebooks are just fab - cheap, quick, light, no virus worries, great battery life etc.
Three in our house now and maybe more to come.
I think she just prefers excel and is very used to doing things like lookups etc on it.
off to tesco in a bit to have a nosey around, though I note PC works do a linx tablet with a free keyboard which has similar specs?
Those cheap Asus and hp little laptops are fine. Will do everything a chromebook will do plus all the Windows stuff.
like it for internet use and battery life
the office thingy is acceptable for work though not exceptional
I would get her to see what she thinks of the office package thingy
IMHO its more of a large tablet than a laptop
I'd love a chromebook - but they won't do "MS Work Resources
RemoteApp and Desktop Connection" - so I'm stuck in windows ( or android )
You can use the online Office stuff on a Chromebook - similar to Google Docs but probably integrates better with the MS Cloud.
And you can use all the online chromebook stuff on a pc [i]plus[/i] all the offline Windows stuff.You can use the online Office stuff on a Chromebook
Of course, I'm not arguing for one or the other, just giving the information 🙂
IMO cheap PCs with W10 have gained a lot of ground back from Chromebooks in the last couple of years.
And you can use all the online chromebook stuff on a pc plus all the offline Windows stuff.
Chromebooks/Google docs also works offline - they automatically sync when reconnected to the interwebs.
I think she just prefers excel and is very used to doing things like lookups etc on it.
In general whenever somebody says something like this the tablet idea goes out the window...
I can do it all in google docs but for real excel I still prefer excel, so long as it's nothing too heavy something cheap & light will be great. Only problem will be the amount of spreadsheet you can see at any one time
ended up going for this: [url= http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/acer-aspire-r3-131t-11-6-2-in-1-white-10137571-pdt.html ]acer-aspire-r3-131t[/url]
Once win 10 was optimised for performance it is a great little thing.