You liking it is all that's important Kenny!  (Plus I believe you can find a CODEC for the AVI files.)
 
My only interaction with them was at the school (they were donations) and, for their purposes, they couldn't do most of what they wanted (interaction with the school's network was dodgy at best, couldn't assign the printers correctly, securing the logins they way they wanted, etc.).  Of course, they also lock down a lot of the internals (more than Apple) which make it hard or impossible to apply advanced settings changes.  My co-workers call them Chrome Bricks.
 
All of that said, I'm glad you're enjoying it! 
 
Now a comment for Soens: A few months ago I set up some MS Surface Pro 4's for the partners at a law firm.  Those suckers were nice i7's with 16 GB's of RAM and were far from being overpriced for them since it replaced their work computer, their home computer and, of course, acts as a laptop when not in either office.  They have nice, multi-screen setups at work and home with the small docking bricks and they love 'em!  The Surfaces can run anything they need (they don't play high-end games naturally) and, with that much memory, they can have dozens of tabs open in their browsers without any issues.  Note that I said "Pro 4's" though.  I've heard there were issues with the 3's and cheaper versions.  Other than showing them how to do something and one weird key bounce issue, I haven't had to do anything with them in five months (almost unheard of in the IT world with non-technical users).

kennywtelejazz
I bought a Chromebook , now I have Google spying on me
 
Kenny

At least Microsoft lets you believe that you can turn it off. 

Doc_Hollingsworth

kennywtelejazz

Mesh
They're all spying on you coz they know that bulldog's bringing home those hot chicks!!
 
 

 Ahhhhh! Yet another victim secured! I mean, next it'll be that darn paper pad in the corner spying on us....
That is so true ...everybody loves Duke around here ...me ,they tolerate because somebody has to pick up his poop ..
 
I found out a very interesting thing about the chromebook , it is supposedly much more secure for being online than Win or OSX ...at least that's what folks that like and use them claim ...
If I don't sign in and use it as a guest for web browsing it is even more secure ...
 
Kenny

I highlighted what I think you were saying
 
YEAH  in a way it's crazy to get that paranoid ..yet stranger things have happened  
 
I saw a TV  show called Hunted where 2 person teams were pitted up against the best in the surveillance industry the teams had to evade and pretend to be fugitives for 28 days  ...
One team got taken out because one of the members of the team wrote a list in pencil on top of a calendar that revealed the teams whole strategy including dates locations and contact numbers ....
All the surveillance team had to do to get the info was to darken the grooves the pen left in the calendar  ..
That's how they caught that team
I'm sure the team wasn't happy about loosing a sum of 250,000 prize money  over a mistake involving a pencil
have a good one ,
 

paulo

kennywtelejazz
I bought a Chromebook , now I have Google spying on me
 
Kenny

At least Microsoft lets you believe that you can turn it off. 

 
How True 
 
MS takes the Cake Bro  . The only thing they haven't done yet is to send a little Yellow Submarine up my Keester
 
all the best ,
 
Kenny

Hey Craig, not sure why you had network connection & printing issues with those school CBs. Where I work the Dell CBs connect & print quite easily, and we have high security & login requirements. But then we have our own IT department that keeps everything going & up to date - all 30 schools are connected to CO via fiber optics as well.
 
The Surface may be a good bet, I'm just not prone to shell out $900 or even $1200 for a 12" iPad when neither will do what a $1500 17" 4K laptop can do. But then I won't buy an $800 smartphone either. Too easy to loose.

soens
If all you want is a net surfer, it's perfect and that's all it was really meant to be. Some are dirt cheap compared to an ipad or other over glorified minimalist app running device you can take with you... and it has a built in keyboard (mostly because the screen is NOT touch). At the far end, MS's new Surface has got to be the biggest overpriced joke of the year.
 
BTW, chromebooks can run "normal" type stuff like word processors and spreadsheets but they're all online apps of Google's own making. I think Google was trying to be "cool" like Apple with a new mobile type device that's all proprietary and stuff. Problem is it looks and feels too much like a laptop and people expect it to work like one.
 
Like "Where's the Caps lock key?" "Where's the Delete key?" You have to use a series of key strokes to emulate one...

Hi soens,
 
Yes , this little chromebook is surprising me on how useful it actually can be for what I'm looking to do with it .
From what I can tell , it runs a lot of file types
https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/183093?hl=en
I know you know this , I'm just speaking out loud ...
It's around the size of a magazine and it is about as thick , that means it can fit in my guitars gig bag ..
I have all the The Real Books and tons of advanced guitar ,Jazz and Classical books in PDF so right there I consider this to work out in my favor ...If I go and hit a Jam and they call a tune I don't know I can pull up the chart as long as I have it on my thumb drive ...A lot of Musicians use i Pads for that even on stage ...
Not that I plan on busking , but if I ever do (or have to ) I can take the chromebook , run a thumb drive with backing tracks or select tunes and run the headphone out into the Aux of my Yamaha THR 5 ...
 
Another thing I like is the overall vibe and look of the chromebook is very unassuming and it fly's under the radar ..
I would rather have someone in public look at me and say to themselves  "hey look at that poor old guy with super long hair and a grey beard he can't afford a real lap top"
The last thing I want when I'm in public is have a creepy looking hipster looking over my shoulder and seeing that I have a golds mine investment of software on my computer  
The area where I live looks OK on the surface but the people around this area are out right shifty ..
I've had people try to steal my groceries while I'm trying to pay for them in the supermarket
Yeah under the radar is good ....
 
Yes , the normal online Google apps and stuff these things can do I may tap into later on ..
I guess for students and normal folks that may be part of the appeal ....I have looked around at some of the apps and I put the brakes on it for now ...
It's got a mini card reader and I can hook up a bigger monitor so I may look into that before I look into other things
I want to stay totally autonomous and live in my little sand box for now ... 
Surfing the web , checking e mails , participating in forums  , watching tutorial videos , playing select media and being able to study PDF files are the things I'm happy I'm able to do with this for now ...
 
nice talking with you ,
 
Kenny

The CBs they give us @work are barebones bottom of the barrel non touch 11"ers for which they probably shelled out a whopping $150 at the most for. Don't know which one you have but for personal use I'd need touch screen and at least 128GB storage. Dell doesn't offer upgradability and their top touchscreen 11"er w/32GB rolls out @$259. Other brands are upgradable but none of them will run the apps I use. Like Craig's clients, if I ever give up normal PCs I'll probably end up with a Surface or a 2in1.

Other than a really good gaming machine (with the killer video card), I would consider a beefy server with a SAN running VM's that I can log into using any thin client.

Well, I'm relatively thin but I'm no client and I don't like being used, tho that doesn't stop most people from trying.

soens
The CBs they give us @work are barebones bottom of the barrel non touch 11"ers for which they probably shelled out a whopping $150 at the most for. Don't know which one you have but for personal use I'd need touch screen and at least 128GB storage. Dell doesn't offer upgradability and their top touchscreen 11"er w/32GB rolls out @$259. Other brands are upgradable but none of them will run the apps I use. Like Craig's clients, if I ever give up normal PCs I'll probably end up with a Surface or a 2in1.

soens,
 
From what you have just described , what I have sounds exactly like the level CB they give you @ work....
I haven't hit a brick wall with it only because all I wanted from it was a little independence , portability ,a little surfing the web  and the ability to open up and read files ...the creation end of computing I have covered else where ...
 
Anyway here's is the exact model I bought  ...
 
http://www.samsung.com/us...3-11-6-xe500c13-k01us/
 
I did get it brand new and I think it was a good deal . It cost me one Benjamin , a Jefferson and one George Washington out the door including tax  ..
 
 
all the best ,
 
Kenny

$121 aint bad. but Tax??! Haven't had to pay any for 35+ years ... but that may all change soon.