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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In addition to everything above, be aware that Google Drive is not completely secure.  Cloud storage is actually physical storage on Google servers.  That storage is open to the Internet.  It is encrypted in transmission between your computer and Google, but the data is transmitted back and forth.  In addition, it is more vulnerable.  If anyone breaks into your Google account, they can access anything on your drive.

If you have any information that should be secure, such as personal information, information pertaining to your identity (address, phone, SSN, financial information, etc), you want to be careful about storing such information on the cloud.  When on a laptop, the information is stored on the local drive and someone would need to be able to break into your computer or get physical access to your computer to read that.

Additionally as pointed out above, chromebooks can only run apps that are designed for chromebooks or the web.  There are some and more being created, but the number of applications that are designed for computers (whether Windows or Mac) is far larger than those designed for Chromebooks.  Anything designed for Chromebooks can be run on laptops, but not vice versa.  Chromebooks can run less than 5% of the software that is available for laptops.  Fancy games, custom software, analytical software, financial software, custom graphics packages, desktop publishing design tools are just a small subset of the wide variety of categories where there may be a few basic tools available to chromebooks, but there are far more including the more advanced versions that are available for laptops.  And many of those will not be available for chromebooks because you need either local storage space or local computing power that chromebooks will not have access to.[/quote]

A few things here:

1. Chromebooks do have local storage space -- it's where files go when you click download. Also you can plug a USB key into them. But generally it'll default to using Google Drive of course.
2. Google probably does a better job of security on their servers than the average person does on their laptop. But, let's pretend all the data was sitting there for anyone to see. They'd have to find _your_ data among 1 billion user accounts and all kinds of junk.
3. Most people don't run analytical software, custom graphics, etc etc in a home environment.
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