I've always been fascinated/bemused by Googles ChromeOS, but couldn't justify getting one as it's essentially just the Chrome Browser as an OS. However I've recently found a reason to invest…. My Daughter. She's 5 and very tech interested.. (I'll apologise to her later) She now uses both my wife's and my iPad's but a lot of the sites she needs to use are in flash :-( Yes I could have gotten her a windows netbook and just run Chrome on it, but I love her and didn't want to inflict that upon her. Ideally a Macbook Air would be ideal.. But even s/h they start at £500 - 600… So as I've already created a Google environment for her ChromeOS became a valid solution.
Digging around on Ebay I found an ex-demo for just over £200.. Grabbed it and it should arrive tomorrow.
Humbly told the wife and she brought up an interesting problem.. "Will it play our iTunes library?" err nope… But then I had an idea….
I wanna test it first before publishing but lets just say it rhymes with frugal rive…
To be continued...
1 comment:
A Chromebook is a great choice for your daughter, and a fantastic way to get one into your household :)
In regards to iTunes, see this post by a Google employee on the subject (in short, iTunes itself won't work but exporting songs will - also see Google Music as an option for her if she's already "Google Ready"):
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/chromebook-central/13_-s1fDL_c/H6BQ2vSVS2MJ
Best of luck with the Chromebook!
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