SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — KRON4 Tech Reporter Gabe Slate is looking at good student laptops for under $300.
Chromebooks are a new breed of notebook that are catching on with students. They are very lightweight, very portable, and very affordable.
You can get a good Chromebook for as low as $150. They look like traditional laptops, but on the inside, they are a lot different.
They don’t have spinning hard drives. They have solid state hard drives. This means you can’t store a lot of data on these machines. You use the cloud for that.
Not having a spinning hard drive let’s Chromebooks turn on and off really fast. It just takes seconds to fire it up and get to work.
And the battery on these notebooks last a long time. They are great for life on the go and for students going from class to class.
Chromebooks are simplified web-based laptops running on Google’s Chrome operating system. It’s basically Google’s version of a laptop.
Everything you do with it runs off cloud Internet apps. So, it’s great for web surfing, email, and document creating through google docs, which is like their version of Microsoft Word.
So, Chromebooks provide users with fast and portable access to the web and word processing. So, in that way, they can offer everything a student needs for a really low price.
Here are some good Chromebooks we recommend for under $300: Chromebooks, Best Buy on sale – http://bit.ly/1J3uqEs
Samsung Chromebooks – http://bit.ly/1Eq0MID
Acer Chromebooks – http://bit.ly/1J3uuUW
Asus Chromebooks – http://bit.ly/1L9PzAW HP Chromebook – http://www8.hp.com/us/en/ads/chromebooks/overview.html