Thursday 9 April 2015

Chromebooks or books? By Cameron

A Chromebook is a laptop running Chrome OS as its operating system.


The owner of chromebook is Google and it was produced on June the 15th in 2011. The first two available chromebooks, the Samsung Series 5 and the Acer AC700 were unveiled on May, 2011, at Google I/O developer conference. It began shipping on June 15, 2011. Lenovo company, Hewlett Packard company and Google itself entered the market in early 2013.
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Chromebook are particularly designed for use while connected to the Internet. Users are able to access Google applications such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Keep and Google Drive in offline mode. Chromebooks also come with built in local music player , a photo editor and Microsoft Office document. Other apps with offline support include Amazon’s Cloud Reader, The New Yorks times app and Angry Birds.

On November 21, 2011, Google announced price on all Chromebooks Since then, the Wi-Fi only Samsung series 5 reduced to $349, the 3G Samsung Series 5 reduced to $449 and the Acer AC700 was reduced to $299. By January 2012, commercial sales for Chromebooks were flat. Google had placed nearly 27,000 Chromebooks in schools across 41 countries including New Zealand.


Chromebooks are good for kids to learn. However it is a tool and it is not for playing games and do other silly stuff on it.

WALT write a report using the correct structure.
I know this when I write the topic, followed by the details and then the conclusion in my report.

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