hey guys i'm bill from gcflearnfree.org
and today we're going to be taking a
look at chromebooks
now you might have heard of a chromebook
before you might not but
either way if you're thinking about
buying a new computer a chromebook might
be a really good
low-cost alternative to a traditional
laptop now unlike normal computers which
use the windows or mac
operating system a chromebook uses
chrome os
which is based on the google chrome web
browser that means you can use a
chromebook to do just about everything
you do in a normal web browser
like checking your email facebook
watching videos
creating simple documents and a whole
lot more this is actually a chromebook
right behind me
it has a screen keyboard and touchpad
just like a regular laptop it's pretty
thin
it's pretty light it's got most of your
basic ports like
headphones hdmi usb usb again over here
that might vary based on which
chromebook model you buy but
more about that later let's take a look
at the basics of using the chromebook
interface
this is the chromebook desktop and it
might look pretty familiar to the
desktop of a regular windows or mac
computer if you've ever used one before
if you click this button in the lower
left corner you can open
any app on your chromebook for example
if you wanted to create a new document
you could just click here
you can also use a chromebook just like
a regular web browser
create a new tab and use it to go to any
web page you want
because a chromebook runs chrome os you
can't install
traditional software that you might
already own still there are a lot of
great applications here and many of them
are free
okay so those are just the absolute
basics of using a chromebook but
i hope this video has been helpful in
showing you what a chromebook can and
can't do
if you're thinking about buying a
chromebook i'd invite you just to take
some time and think about your needs as
a computer user
a five or six hundred dollar laptop may
actually do much more than you need
and i think for a lot of people
chromebook would make a really great
alternative
on the other hand if you need access to
very specific windows or mac software
a chromebook just might not cut it for
you anyway i hope this video has been
helpful for you and
check out our chromebooks lesson for
even more information
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