{"id":45,"date":"2016-08-25T13:24:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T13:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k2dls.net\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2016-08-25T13:24:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T13:24:38","slug":"chrome-os-the-right-os-for-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/25\/chrome-os-the-right-os-for-many\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome OS &#8211; The Right OS for Many"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am convinced that Google&#8217;s <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.chromium.org\/chromium-os\">Chrome OS<\/A> is highly underrated and under appreciated.  I have been testing an <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.arm.com\/products\/processors\/\">ARM<\/A> based Chromebook as well as an ARM based Chomestick with great results.  If your primary email address is @gmail.com, and if most of your computer activity is email, messaging, and light document prep, you don&#8217;t need the complexity of Windows or Linux.  And, if you think that Mac OS is simple to use, you have not tried Chrome.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.k2dls.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/chromebit-130x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Asus CS10 boasts a quad-core RockChip 3288-C CPU, 2 GB RAM, and 16 GB eMMC.\" width=\"130\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Asus CS10 boasts a quad-core <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rk3288.com\/\">RockChip 3288-C<\/A> CPU, 2 GB RAM, and 16 GB eMMC.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nI especially like the <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.asus.com\/us\/Chrome-Devices\/Chromebit-CS10\/\">Asus Chromebit<\/A> that arrived yesterday and which is now stuck on the back of a several year old Sony Bravia in the den.  I plan to use it where I need a web browser to access content that is not already integrated into <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.tivo.com\/\">TiVo<\/A>.  Paired with a small Logitech wireless keyboard, it is all I need in the den and will free up the i5 Windows 10 machine that was previously used for web streaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am convinced that Google&#8217;s Chrome OS is highly underrated and under appreciated. I have been testing an ARM based Chromebook as well as an ARM based Chomestick with great results. If your primary email address is @gmail.com, and if most of your computer activity is email, messaging, and light document prep, you don&#8217;t need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/2016\/08\/25\/chrome-os-the-right-os-for-many\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chrome OS &#8211; The Right OS for Many&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k2ie.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}