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[quote=Anonymous]Sorry - mom who's DS has a Chromebook.  Forgot to check back.  The benefits are its very lightweight like a tablet but built like a laptop so has a separate keyboard. It connects to the Internet thru wifi and the "cloud" is cloud computing. That is using all applications on line rather than on the actual laptop/computer. So, instead of having a document drafting application on your computer, like Word, you go on line to Googke docs to write, edit and save your document. You can then access that document from any computer, like one a school, and work on the document whenever and wherever you need to and other people you let access it, like your English teacher, can edit and comment on it to.  It's called document collaboration.  Every application or piece of software you use is on line, or in the cloud, and that is where you store everything.  Your Chromebook is kind of like a terminal.  The drawbacks are for highly sensitive materials.  The security of "the cloud" is obviously not as easy to guarantee as its not just on your hard drive.  now hardcsrives can be corrupted of course and "the cloud" should nto be able to be corrupted becuase of all the redundancy.  some people are just not quite ready to trust it is secure enough to allow one to store identity sensitive things like tax returns or personal medical information.  But, for the everyday purposes of writing and research and homework it is totally secure. Also it can access any type of program you need to use because it uses the program on line.  It is much safer and less expensive to do it this way.

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