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Old 11-22-2024, 02:25 PM
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Originally Posted by JohnN View Post
Chromebooks don't have a hard drive, so you'd have to save your photos to the cloud somewhere. I'm much like you. I just bought a Lenovo laptop with 4 mg RAM (more than enough if you're not gaming nor stream ing vids) and a 125 gig hard drive. It was something under $300 from Walmart. There are a lot of black friday deals right now.

You don't need a high end PC. HP, Dell, ASUS, Lenovo, any of those will do.
Don't spend over $400. Just my opinion
Chromebooks all come with USB ports where you can insert a flash drive, and store everything on the drive for when you can't access the internet. You just have to remember to upload any changes or new files to the cloud when you do that.

Google docs doesn't download anywhere though - you'd have to convert the file before you can move it out of the cloud storage. Which - if you're into software, isn't hard to do, it just has a learning curve.