If you’re looking for a cheap computer, the first thing you should do is check out just how much you can get with a Chromebook.
Chromebooks are increasingly looking like the perfect laptops for a whole lot of people. Sure, they don’t have the wide desktop app ecosystem that Mac and Windows laptops have. But ask yourself how many of those apps you actually use each day, and of those, how many you actually need. Could you trade Outlook for outlook.com? Would you be fine in Google Docs instead of Office? (And if not, would your answer change if it meant saving several hundred dollars?)
Most of our time is spent online, and Chromebooks stick to the basics, offering just enough power to do that. The best of them should let you browse the...
