Summary: Your next PC? It just might be a Chromebook.
Does this look like just a browser? Look again, it's actually
the Chrome OS interface, which just happens to be the Chrome Web
browser. If you can use a browser, this is one version of Linux you can
use.
You don't have to have a browser window open in Chrome OS
though. To open a window from here you can either use a keyboard
shortcut or click one of the icons on the lower left.
The right-most button displays your Chrome OS applications.
These, as you'd expect, are the same Web applications you'd use in your
Chrome Web browser.
Unlike earlier versions of Chrome OS, it's now easy to open
multiple browser windows at once for those times you want to say quickly
copy and paste between GMail and a Google document.
Here, for example, is an early start at this story in Google
Docs. Spreadsheets, presentations, financial managment, contact
management, and all the rest of the office software staples are
available either from Google or other cloud software vendors.
It's not all work though. You can also read e-books on Chrome OS via Google Play.
since Google Play Music will let you upload and keep up to
20,000 song onto the cloud for free you're not likely to run out of
things to listen to anytime soon.
Chrome OS supports Netflix, Hulu, and Google Play video along
with other online movie services. So, as Captain America flies off to
victory, you'll have many entertaining movies and TV choices to play on
your Chromebook. Enjoy!
