FINALLY someone who appreciate the Chromebook for business as much as I do. When I tell clients and colleagues that I ONLY use Chromebook to run the corporation, some laugh and some think it's a joke - but the jokes on them cause we are getting a better more stable computer for less than half the price of your average Mac or PC (which I've used in the past). Great video as always.
Chromebooks are bad because of their OS, that is a stripped down piece of sh*t. Yes, crostini is a thing, BUT it doesnt support proper chroots and its fuze system is poorly implemented. And the apps that are talked about in the video are pretty useless in real and true circumstances. Mainly due to most (cheaper) Chromebooks dont have enough ram to even hold up 30 tabs (You will be running more if you use it for business). Here is my advice, if you have an intel cpu, install chrx and dual boot PROPER Linux, runs flawlessly and low end gaming isnt even that bad. But, overall, dont get a chromebook for long term, they will wear out, this is due to their hardware limitations.
@@HuskieLunar What on earth are you talking about? The OS is bad because cheap Chromebooks don't have the ram for 30 tabs? Well yeah, that's true of any low spec machine running any OS. Chromebooks will wear out due to hardware limitations? Say what? Most Chromebooks have no moving parts, which bit wears out faster than any other laptop?
Visual Studio Code for coders, and online Microsoft Office for students, I'm not an office worker, so I don't know.
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As a former front web dev and current webmaster & web marketing dude, I love those apps because I am a Chromebook/Cloud fan. I didn't know Squoosh and Gravit, so I thank you very much for the tip. I wish you the best, Cheers!
You are the only RUclipsr whom I have found out to be really calm, composed, consistent, well groomed (always) and stick to the topic and not do random stuffs. Keep up the good work 😃👍👍
This was a great video! Nice work Robbie, would love to see more tools like this showing up and others like it (maybe things the team uses on their Chromebooks too?
Robby, I just purchased the Acer Spin 713 (2 in 1 laptop/tablet) the other day all because of your reviews and boy I am so pleased with this Chromebook!! wow I'm so glad I have found your channel and website. You have a very soothing voice and way about you and your videos are very organised and tidy looking... not to mention that you are cute to look at ... all the best, love from London xx
Thank you for directing my attention to Gravit designer . Since I got my Chromebook a few months ago ive been wanting something to create Facebook ads to promote my business and services . I'm not very good at editing this stuff but I've found RUclips tutorials which I'm going to follow . Keep up the good work . Coryn from England south Yorkshire !
Really useful video, Robbie. I use a Windows laptop at work and a Chromebook at home. So often find myself finishing projects (often PP presentations) on my Chromebook. These tools will really help. Thanks for sharing.
Looking forward to checking these out! Would love to see you do a video reviewing your favorite pdf viewer/annotator. I'm a student, and this is imo by far the biggest drawback of chrome OS.
Yeah - those 3 are awesome 🙂. Would you mind telling us why you don't use Canva? For me it's the UI and content - Gravit is much more intuitive and flexible for me.
Great info! You already got me looking into Gravit and I use Google photos for exactly what you were saying but I think I've also found a way to include squoosh after this video. Also just joined your channel and subscribed! Keep up the great work hope to see you guys again soon!!
I wish there was a way to resize apps that are built for phones. For an example, I open up the Best Buy app on my chromebook and it's barely larger than on my phone. I know this is Best Buy's problem, but it would be great if everyone got on board and made the apps fill the screen. Just a gripe, but one would think they would all now realize that Chrome OS is a thing and here to stay.
Just what I've been struggling with!! Thanks for the timely video. Been wrestling with how to get Linux running (right) to allow Linux apps to replace what XAMPP did for me on Windows. One of the last holdovers from that environment. Again, many thanks.
Why am I looking at Chromebook videos? Two reasons 1... the children at the school where as retired primary teacher I volunteer two mornings a week use Chromebooks... and 2.. the more pressing reason is that my 2012 vintage HP Pavilion dm1 was underpowered from the start with only 2Gb RAM so I am hoping a rebirth as Chrome machine may significantly speed up its very sluggish performance.
Thanks for this! Studying front end development now and switched to chrome book from windows on the advice of other developers. I love it!!! Your suggestions here are all things I need to do my job more easily.
I am primarily using Chromebook now. I still use Windows 10 and 8.1, 7 ... not so much the latter two, and now I really seldom get on a Windows 7 app. Well, I found that for the research and testing data and yes for photography and designing templates that Chrome Web Store had pretty much what I needed and it was cheaper (most apps ad extensions are free) and the device moves faster. Another huge reason I disliked having Microsoft OS as my central nervous system to investigate, discover, evaluate, and customize ... the material I found --- It's how Microsoft so unilaterally decided to end support for Windows 7 . And yes, I wasn't hugely pleased about XP and Vista being droppped.
Love my chrome books but I will not use any web app when I can use a local, always available, Internet and WiFi independent app. Plus, I don’t want these people to have my images or info.
That one HP Chromebook that you highly recommend was/is on sale at Costco for $299. Thought I would find a recent video and pass it on to your viewers.
Lol he's way too advanced for me but I appreciate the knowledge and love how he presents it (he actually explains his technical terms etc) Thanks again
Can you recommend any video editing for my old Pixel 2? Given its i7 and 16g ram, it still works faster than my newer Pixelbook. For my business, I have to run 100's of tabs constantly and my old 2015 can handle it, but the new one just craters... Additionally, I want to edit some video now and just wondering if there are any options available other than biting the bullet and buying a new Mac. (could I run Davinci Resolve with Linux on that old rig maybe??? With an external GPU???) Thanks!
I love the idea of a chromebook. My computer is 6 years old and still works great but when it updates it takes a long time. I use google drive. I also use atlantis word processor. Can you install any apps from the computer to the chromebook?
How do you use and edit .heic files on ChromeOS? I use them a lot on macOS/iOS because they can be really compact with particularly flat colours and also have alpha channels.
You should do a tutorial video on Squoosh I tried it in my Safari browser and once I sent it to an text or email I got 404 page not found. Do you have too use chrome or Google app on a iPhone to make it work? Thanks
What about a video editior??? I have a Google Pixelbook and I absolutely love it. But I'm not sure what app I should use for video editing. Been thinking of transitioning to Mac for that reason 🙁.
I ran out of space so fast in my chromebook. Then I deleted all my files that I would have kept and it still was filled. The storage is seeming unreaching to see what's taking it uo
Reaching out to see if anyone else is having trouble with thumbnails loading, either on the local drive or Google drive (accessed from the Chromebook). My HP, up-to-date, and older Acer have the same extreme slowness in loading thumbnails. My 2015 Google Pixel2, same -up-to-date, has no issues loading them. But I want to use my HP and the thumbnail issue is really making me nuts. Anyone else having problems with thumbnails loading very slowly ? Thanks !
The problem i have with a chromebook is they have no memory on the hard drive. It is designed to make you pay for a cloud service they are using no memory to get money out of you forever. It also makes it impossible to use high grade video on youtube any thing above 720 is worthless.
OMG ROBBIE THANK YOU FOR THIS INFO!! you just made me a happy guy and if they get your seal of approval then it gets mine!!! As always keep up the great work and great content.
Everytime I see you talking 'bout chromebook and ChromeOS, it comes up to my mind "where does he edit his videos?" 'cuz I'm very found of ChromeOS as a project, mainly for students, but as I work with Digital Media and such similar stuffs, I always get confused about the "similar" software programs we could use in order to get rid of Microsoft, Mac or even Linux. Look, I know we could download the apps from Linux over the kernel, but you know the computers are not even built for handling this kinds of situations. How to resolve it?!
FINALLY someone who appreciate the Chromebook for business as much as I do. When I tell clients and colleagues that I ONLY use Chromebook to run the corporation, some laugh and some think it's a joke - but the jokes on them cause we are getting a better more stable computer for less than half the price of your average Mac or PC (which I've used in the past). Great video as always.
HELP how do you duplicate a web page on a Chromebook?
Rich Technology Group I hate Windows. Will never go back.
@@angelarae63 Yeah me to. I use Windows for gaming but for productive work - NO WAY JOSE!
Chromebooks are bad because of their OS, that is a stripped down piece of sh*t. Yes, crostini is a thing, BUT it doesnt support proper chroots and its fuze system is poorly implemented. And the apps that are talked about in the video are pretty useless in real and true circumstances. Mainly due to most (cheaper) Chromebooks dont have enough ram to even hold up 30 tabs (You will be running more if you use it for business). Here is my advice, if you have an intel cpu, install chrx and dual boot PROPER Linux, runs flawlessly and low end gaming isnt even that bad. But, overall, dont get a chromebook for long term, they will wear out, this is due to their hardware limitations.
@@HuskieLunar What on earth are you talking about?
The OS is bad because cheap Chromebooks don't have the ram for 30 tabs? Well yeah, that's true of any low spec machine running any OS.
Chromebooks will wear out due to hardware limitations? Say what? Most Chromebooks have no moving parts, which bit wears out faster than any other laptop?
Definitely would like to see more productivity tools on Chromebooks for students, office workers, coders etc.
Visual studo code and libre office
@@jpants36 libre office work in Chromebook?
@@elchristian83 yes
@@jpants36 thx
Visual Studio Code for coders, and online Microsoft Office for students, I'm not an office worker, so I don't know.
As a former front web dev and current webmaster & web marketing dude, I love those apps because I am a Chromebook/Cloud fan. I didn't know Squoosh and Gravit, so I thank you very much for the tip. I wish you the best, Cheers!
Hi mate
Bit of a random question. I'm trying to download cisco packet tracer but I it's not supported by chromebook. Do u know what I can do?
How on earth are you verified
@@username. I worked very close to Google for a few years and it's a bonus I was able to keep.
You are the only RUclipsr whom I have found out to be really calm, composed, consistent, well groomed (always) and stick to the topic and not do random stuffs. Keep up the good work 😃👍👍
Just another request for more videos like this... Thanks Robbie - yours is one of the channels I'm always watching
This was a great video! Nice work Robbie, would love to see more tools like this showing up and others like it (maybe things the team uses on their Chromebooks too?
Robby, I just purchased the Acer Spin 713 (2 in 1 laptop/tablet) the other day all because of your reviews and boy I am so pleased with this Chromebook!! wow I'm so glad I have found your channel and website. You have a very soothing voice and way about you and your videos are very organised and tidy looking... not to mention that you are cute to look at ... all the best, love from London xx
Would appreciate some links in the description though
Exactly!?!? Or labeled on the screen?!? Maybe??? 🙄 just have to guess how these apps are spelled and listen to every word he says I guess 😕
Thank you for directing my attention to Gravit designer . Since I got my Chromebook a few months ago ive been wanting something to create Facebook ads to promote my business and services . I'm not very good at editing this stuff but I've found RUclips tutorials which I'm going to follow . Keep up the good work . Coryn from England south Yorkshire !
Really useful video, Robbie. I use a Windows laptop at work and a Chromebook at home. So often find myself finishing projects (often PP presentations) on my Chromebook. These tools will really help. Thanks for sharing.
Follow up video thought: what 3 apps do you wish they would get working/make an alternative for chrome that you still have to use a PC or Mac for?
Love it, thanks for the feedback!
Autocad, sap2000, and sketchup
Thanks Robbie. This is of great use to me as a small business owner who tries to only use chrome OS, and run my business in the cloud.
Awesome to hear, Andrew. I too try and do this as well. I love ChromeOS over every other option.
Had no idea about Gravit. Time to play! Thanks.
Looking forward to checking these out! Would love to see you do a video reviewing your favorite pdf viewer/annotator. I'm a student, and this is imo by far the biggest drawback of chrome OS.
Take a look at Kami
Xodo
Yeah - those 3 are awesome 🙂.
Would you mind telling us why you don't use Canva?
For me it's the UI and content - Gravit is much more intuitive and flexible for me.
Great info! You already got me looking into Gravit and I use Google photos for exactly what you were saying but I think I've also found a way to include squoosh after this video.
Also just joined your channel and subscribed! Keep up the great work hope to see you guys again soon!!
Thanks so much, Corey! Appreciate your support!
😂some Choremebook are actually faster than most laptop
I wish there was a way to resize apps that are built for phones. For an example, I open up the Best Buy app on my chromebook and it's barely larger than on my phone. I know this is Best Buy's problem, but it would be great if everyone got on board and made the apps fill the screen. Just a gripe, but one would think they would all now realize that Chrome OS is a thing and here to stay.
You have a device that is basically a web browser, but instead of using Chrome for the superior website you want to.... Use and Android app instead...
Just what I've been struggling with!! Thanks for the timely video. Been wrestling with how to get Linux running (right) to allow Linux apps to replace what XAMPP did for me on Windows. One of the last holdovers from that environment. Again, many thanks.
Really love this video, i wish you could create a playlist review the best web apps
Thanks Robbie! Those are great suggestions. I appreciate it.
Why am I looking at Chromebook videos? Two reasons 1... the children at the school where as retired primary teacher I volunteer two mornings a week use Chromebooks... and 2.. the more pressing reason is that my 2012 vintage HP Pavilion dm1 was underpowered from the start with only 2Gb RAM so I am hoping a rebirth as Chrome machine may significantly speed up its very sluggish performance.
What he mentioned:
1. Squoosh.app
2. Gravit.io
3. Photos.Google.com
Thanks for this! Studying front end development now and switched to chrome book from windows on the advice of other developers. I love it!!! Your suggestions here are all things I need to do my job more easily.
I am primarily using Chromebook now. I still use Windows 10 and 8.1, 7 ... not so much the latter two, and now I really seldom get on a Windows 7 app. Well, I found that for the research and testing data and yes for photography and designing templates that Chrome Web Store had pretty much what I needed and it was cheaper (most apps ad extensions are free) and the device moves faster. Another huge reason I disliked having Microsoft OS as my central nervous system to investigate, discover, evaluate, and customize ... the material I found --- It's how Microsoft so unilaterally decided to end support for Windows 7 . And yes, I wasn't hugely pleased about XP and Vista being droppped.
Love my chrome books but I will not use any web app when I can use a local, always available, Internet and WiFi independent app.
Plus, I don’t want these people to have my images or info.
That one HP Chromebook that you highly recommend was/is on sale at Costco for $299. Thought I would find a recent video and pass it on to your viewers.
Thanks for the video. I was hoping for more variety in apps but these are solid picks!
Thank you for sharing! Are these apps still top of your go to?
Lol he's way too advanced for me but I appreciate the knowledge and love how he presents it (he actually explains his technical terms etc) Thanks again
What app do you use for writing and publishing? I'm a former iOS user, transitioning to Chromebook. Thx
Good pointers. Good video as always. Big thanks!
Can you recommend any video editing for my old Pixel 2? Given its i7 and 16g ram, it still works faster than my newer Pixelbook. For my business, I have to run 100's of tabs constantly and my old 2015 can handle it, but the new one just craters... Additionally, I want to edit some video now and just wondering if there are any options available other than biting the bullet and buying a new Mac. (could I run Davinci Resolve with Linux on that old rig maybe??? With an external GPU???) Thanks!
I love the idea of a chromebook. My computer is 6 years old and still works great but when it updates it takes a long time. I use google drive. I also use atlantis word processor. Can you install any apps from the computer to the chromebook?
I love Figma the most for Chromebook to design logos and webdesigns!
Very good presentation. Do these three apps come installed on Chromebook.
Thanks,
Ben
Thanks as always for the info. Differences between using Squoosh as opposed to just resizing in a cinch via the file editor?
How do you use and edit .heic files on ChromeOS? I use them a lot on macOS/iOS because they can be really compact with particularly flat colours and also have alpha channels.
2 questions... What is available for website creation? Plus does your wife use a Chromebook?
Text editing/presentations, can you recommend something for that (word, excel, ppt), the best option in your opinion. Thank you!
can I use adobe Photoshop or similar apps to edit simple photos on my Chromebook???
I'd love your take on this topic in 2023!
You should do a tutorial video on Squoosh I tried it in my Safari browser and once I sent it to an text or email I got 404 page not found.
Do you have too use chrome or Google app on a iPhone to make it work?
Thanks
What about a video editior??? I have a Google Pixelbook and I absolutely love it. But I'm not sure what app I should use for video editing. Been thinking of transitioning to Mac for that reason 🙁.
Try openshot, it's a Linux app
I ran out of space so fast in my chromebook. Then I deleted all my files that I would have kept and it still was filled. The storage is seeming unreaching to see what's taking it uo
So I am getting a chrome book but still nervous. Do I need to spend 500-999 for a good chrome book or will the acer chrome books 15.6 powerful enough?
Hey bro. Do you have a review for samsung chromebook 4/4+?
hi, do you know if it is possible to use onedrive in the files menu? i cant sync between my pc and pixelbook.
Very helpful... thank you!
Random question...how do you get that spacer gap on your app shelf before the Gravit icon?
Haha! No secret there. That's the Pixlr X PWA and the icon is black
hello please tell me does the Chromebook have desktop version of RUclips?
I love your channel, just became a member
Can you suggest a stylus for hp Chromebook x360?
Reaching out to see if anyone else is having trouble with thumbnails loading, either on the local drive or Google drive (accessed from the Chromebook). My HP, up-to-date, and older Acer have the same extreme slowness in loading thumbnails. My 2015 Google Pixel2, same -up-to-date, has no issues loading them. But I want to use my HP and the thumbnail issue is really making me nuts. Anyone else having problems with thumbnails loading very slowly ? Thanks !
Is gravity able to handle large scale drawings and large file sizes?
The problem i have with a chromebook is they have no memory on the hard drive. It is designed to make you pay for a cloud service they are using no memory to get money out of you forever. It also makes it impossible to use high grade video on youtube any thing above 720 is worthless.
OMG ROBBIE THANK YOU FOR THIS INFO!! you just made me a happy guy and if they get your seal of approval then it gets mine!!! As always keep up the great work and great content.
You should try out figma for design!
Hey. can you download Google play on any chromebook?
how are you using apple watch with google pixel?
Thank you for this video. Yet another reason to subscribe to your awesome channel!
Great information!!
Hey!! One question. Is the pixel book worth the 1000 dollars for playing roblox?
Yes. I was able to play it on a cheap ass chromebook
what do you use for code editing?
I have a question so my budget is 400$ and I don’t know what Chromebook to get
What do you use for your development workflow on a Chromebook?
This was so helpful. Thank you!
I would like to see how you edit your videos on a Chromebook
he uses an apple computer.
Can we edit short films on chromebook
"Literally every single day..." Far be it for me to be pedantic, but... 😊
@@Arjay82 Pet hate of mine that literally now means figuratively. Language evolves, I get that but it doesn't mean I have to like it. 👍
Wish u had links in description
Great video! For anyone else looking for a useful photo editor with a little more power, check out Photopea. Great browser-based Photoshop clone.
Everytime I see you talking 'bout chromebook and ChromeOS, it comes up to my mind "where does he edit his videos?" 'cuz I'm very found of ChromeOS as a project, mainly for students, but as I work with Digital Media and such similar stuffs, I always get confused about the "similar" software programs we could use in order to get rid of Microsoft, Mac or even Linux.
Look, I know we could download the apps from Linux over the kernel, but you know the computers are not even built for handling this kinds of situations. How to resolve it?!
Another superb, relevant video!
Can you play music while offline?
How do I install some of the apps from Linux
great suggestions! Thanks
I use gravit a lot
Any updates?
Please link of app or write the name
6:00 Why not Use SnapSeed
Great info as always!
chromebook is awesome, and now I can develop android apps using react native and other programming stuff on my asus c343.
I use a lot photopea.com for my designs
I left chrome book. It’s became one extended effort to find alternatives to preform tasks a MacBook or windows laptop can do.
How much did you pay for your chromebook?
COngrats!!!!
this video was verry helpfull
I prefer Kolourpaint 4 ;)
Siemka
My chrome book can't download any apps at play store....
Its that normal for chrome book....
No.
@@blueciffer1653 so what i need to do
More of this please 👍
Have you tried web development on chromebook??
Very good video, very useful information. Thank you for this one...
Great video! Thanks!!! I would definitely like to see more videos like this!
I got a Chromebook. Biggest mistake I have ever made!
👍🍻
"Sqoosh it"
How the hell are you ediiting a video on chromebook
I'm literally not subscribing.