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School are establishing their eLearning stuff and asking who needs to borrow Chromebook from the school.
We have an older but decent in its day win7 laptop... will this do instead of a chromebook?
2011 Vaio SA (gen 1 i7, gpu, ssd etc)
Assuming we have chrome browser installed...Are we missing anything over a chromebook here?
I doubt it. Stick W10 on it though.
Although they work great all a Chromebook does is give access to the Google suite of browser based tools. Drive, google classroom etc. So not a full computer. They do usually have a long battery life.
If they're offering a school Chromebook and you're not disadvantaging another student by taking it, then use that. Genuinely the easiest option.
If the school are offering chromebooks then they must offer sufficient software support for the work being set, so I wouldn't worry about limited software availability or access to the full gsuite.
We just picked up a low-end win10 laptop for our eldest who starts high school in September, as per the schools recommendations since their teaching is MS based, while child the younger is using the chromebook they've had for years now, which is fine for her work.
all a Chromebook does is give access to the Google suite of browser based tools.
Obviously a Chromebook can do more than that i.e. many can now run all android apps inc word, etc.
Kids are crap at saving work as they go along... Cloud based apps (realistically you're only looking at Word and maybe Excel) can be the best way forward.
Youngest daughter's have just finished A levels (kinda) and they've used Pixelbooks all the way through without any issues or data loss.
If you've already got a laptop I'd just upgrade it with an SSD and use that.
My 16yr old is now using my chromebook for college. She has a free MS365 account through colledge and uses the MS programs through the browser of the android versions.
Seems to work ok for her.
Right, than onks, saving some coin and going with the existing Vaio.
I've fresh installed W10, set up MS kids accounts (frustratingly with a MS email address for each kid) but wonder what other things I need to put in place for child usage/safety/restrictions?
Kids are crap at saving work as they go along…
Until they don't and they get a fail, then they learn very quickly 🙂
TBH I'd borrow the Chromebook, with an SSD and a cut down OS it's probably quicker and it's guaranteed to be compatible with the schoolwork.
That's a bugger... win10 install and i've lost the speed/stamina switch functionality so no AMD radeon gpu option, no w10 compatible vaio control for battery charge limits etc