 Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan of amitdan.com Today I will have another episode of Chromebook Tips and Tricks video and I will talk about how to pick the best Chromebook for kids returning to school. So recently I noticed that lots of kids are leaving comments on my Chromebook videos. I have lots of Chromebook videos on this channel so kids are leaving comments for thanking for providing good tips and clarifying some of the things. So I decided to make this video because you know this is going to be very helpful for kids or parents where the kids are going back to school and they are looking to get a new Chromebook. So I am going to just add a short clip of my little friend Lucky at the end of this video because I know that kids and parents they like dogs. So this is just a few you know since from the park where you know the dog was really happy just as a bonus but this is going to be at the end of the video. So watch till the end then you will see you know the clip of my little friend Lucky at the end of this video. So this video is going to be in two parts. In the first part I will talk about you know why Chromebooks are perfect fit for kids. In the second part I will talk about why you know what to look for when you are looking to buy Chromebook for your kids. So as usual I have my index cards and I will just you know go over them one by one. So why Chromebook for kids. So the first point I have is very cheap you know kids are when you are buying something for kids you know there are chances that you know you are going to be the discipline to get lost or discipline to get damaged. So if you have a Chromebook and if your kid loses that Chromebook you don't have to worry about too much because you know Chromebooks are cheap you can spend like you know two to three hundred dollars and you can find a very nice Chromebook. So you don't need to worry about like you know losing a one thousand dollar or two thousand dollars laptop like Windows laptops. So for that reason you know Chromebooks are perfect fit for kids because you know if you lose then you lose only a couple of hundred dollars or three hundred dollars so it's not a big deal. And then another thing is that you know if you lose if your kids lose the Chromebook and you're not going to actually lose that data or the stuff inside the Chromebook because everything is being saved on the cloud. So if you're losing the computer some then you can actually you're not losing actually anything because you can retrieve everything when you buy another Chromebook because everything is saved you know not on the hard drive but on the Google cloud. So that's a very good thing for kids. Number two what I'm going to be talking about is the security. So Chromebooks are very secure due to the fact that you know you don't have to worry about antivirus you don't have to worry about firewall. Google takes care of everything and that for that reason you know it works perfectly for kids because you know kids when you're giving something to kids you don't need to worry about always that you know what they're doing or what they're installing or what antivirus you know is there if it's updated or what you need to do. So you can forget about all those because by default Google looks after all these things in Chromebooks and then you don't have to like you know even install any antivirus or firewall. So for that reason Chromebook is a very good for kids because you know you can just forget about those things and kids can use Chromebook whenever they want anywhere they want so there's no need to worry about that. Another important part of Chromebook is you don't need to maintain anything so there's no maintenance all maintenance and everything is done by Google. So you know this is kind of relative to security and maintenance so you don't have to like you know look you don't have to update anything and all the updates for the operating system is done by Google in the background so there's no need to worry about anything so that's another feature that you know Chromebooks are so common or so popular with the kids these days and then number four is there like you know school specific Chromebooks so what happens that you know a school can maintain or school can have a tweak the operating system and they can have like you know a school specific Chromebook where they manage the Chromebook operating system so kids can have a specific versions of Chromebooks and our specific programs or stuff on their Chromebook which the school decides or choose what to have so this is getting actually very popular lately a lot of the schools are you know getting Chromebooks based on their needs and school specific Chromebooks because it's a very inexpensive when you compare with the windows because you know schools they don't have to spend a lot of money on Chromebooks so you can have like you know Google apps for education suites which I'm going to give you a link in the description box below and then you're gonna have the Google Play for education and these are all part of you know a school managed Chromebooks or even not even if they're not a school managed they can have like you know also you can have them in the Chromebooks so I have some of the like you know links here so for example this is like in a school apps for educational sites and here when you have Chromebook you can have all sorts of like you know apps for kids who are which you know they can maintain or they can use like you know Google docs and the word processing word software or Excel software based on Chromebook so these are all you know come come in handy when you have school maintenance Chromebook and then also there's like you know Google Play or Google apps for specifically designed to learn for Chromebooks which you know you can get lots of like you know stories dictionary and then games which to keep keep kids active and then like you know to make them help to learn so these all you can have with a Chromebook so that's another good feature and then also Chromebook works offline so a lot of us think that you know Chromebook doesn't work online I mean Chromebook cannot work offline you have to have online to use Chromebook but that's not true you can do everything these days on Chromebooks when you're offline you can you know read write there watch everything basically can be done online so that's another reason that you know you can have Chromebooks and give your kids and you don't have to worry about you know having the internet all the time so these are the basic things you know what these are the basic things when why schools are picking Chromebooks or why you know Chromebooks are so good for kids now I'm going to just talk about a few things about what to look for when you are getting a Chromebook for for the kids so these are the just basic things and I'm not going to actually recommend any specific Chromebooks or any brand because on this channel I do not provide any affiliated links to make money off anyone so you can click the link and I can make money when you're buying something I don't believe in that model for the reason there's no specific links or specific names of the Chromebooks instead I'm going to just give you some basic you know things you need to know so the first thing whenever you're buying a Chromebook look for the RAM which is the random access memory and that makes the Chromebook going faster or slower although 2 RAM or 2 gig of RAM you know Chromebook can work good for kids but my recommendation would be not to go below 4 gig so that way like you know when kids are like you know doing anything then this is not slow it's it has a very like you know reasonable speed and very smooth like you know transition from app to app so just try to stay at 4 gig RAM try not to go to 2 gig RAM because lots of Chromebooks out there they have you know 2 gig RAM so my recommendation would be try to get something above 4 gigs or 4 gigs and then in terms of storage although Chromebook doesn't really need any storage because everything is in the cloud but still you need some storage because whenever you are like you know installing something from the Google Play or like you know you're keeping something on the local hard drive then if you have any storage below 32 gig it's gonna cause problem one day let's say down the road after like you know one two years if you have 16 gig storage because you're not gonna be able to install any apps or anything later on because of the storage shortage so my recommendation would be you know get to try to get like you know storage at least 32 gig or above so that way you don't have to worry about down the road many years to come that you know you're gonna run out of your storage on your Chromebook and then in terms of a screen my recommendation be to get a touch screen because you know kids like touch screen and it's going to be very interactive when you have touch screen and in terms of a screen size you know try to stay within 12 to 13.3 inch range this is due to the fact that if you go too small or too large this is not going to be convenient for kids to carry around or put it in the backpack so my choices between these two 12 to 12.3 inches because that's the perfect size of a Chromebook due to its portability and like you know the convenience for example the Chromebook you're looking at this is 2.5 inch usually I stay within 12 to 13.3 inch and that's the best you know screen or size you have when you're using a Chromebook and you can take anywhere you can travel you can take to school you know you can take to the camping so it's a very good combination of portability and viewing experience so those are my basic recommendations when you get a Chromebook so that's all for today thank you for watching this video and on this channel I have lots of other Chromebook tips and tricks videos and you can see all of them by going to the Chromebook playlist all the videos are going to be under that and now time now is the time for the video I promised you before where my little friend Lucky's playing at the park and hopefully you'll enjoy that so thank you for watching this video forget about liking this channel forget about liking this video I'll see you shortly