 Can you tell the difference between these two laptops? I'm not talking about the obvious looks because one is blue and the other one is silver color, but except that they're both convertible laptop. They can turn into tablet mode and other modes and that's what I'll talk about. Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan of AmitDan.com Today I'll have another episode of Chromebook Tips and Tricks video and I'll talk about what is a Chromebook. So before I start that, I'd like to mention about this topic what is a Chromebook. There are probably hundreds of videos on YouTube and if you watch them, most of them are outdated, they're not updated videos and then they do not talk about everything you need to know about Chromebooks but today I have everything you'd require to know to find out more and have a good idea or clear-cut conception about what is a Chromebook. So for that reason, the video is going to be a little long but once you finish watching the video, you'll have a very good understanding of what is a Chromebook and whether it should have a Chromebook or not and what are the advantages, disadvantages and everything else and if you stick to the end of the video, I do have some tips about whether you should be traveling with a Chromebook or not. So let's come back to the original question I asked you before what is the difference between these two laptops? So let me just show you something first. So I'm going to just open up both of these two laptops. Here we have two different laptops, they both do everyday works and then you can turn into them a tablet or they both work as different other modes but the difference between these two is that they have different operating systems. So for example, this is Windows 10 computer or laptop and this is Chromebook which is operated by Chrome OS and the major striking difference is that this one is only $400 and this one is $2,000. So for that reason, you need to know what is a Chromebook and whether you should have a Chromebook and what is the differences and all other things you need to know about Chromebook. So I'm going to talk about based on the cards I have here. So first we'll talk about what is a Chromebook and our next topic is going to be the advantages of Chromebook and then we'll talk about the disadvantages of Chromebook and then we'll talk about the Chromebook security and then we'll talk about whether you should travel with your Chromebook and then we'll talk about the future of Chromebook. So let's start with what is a Chromebook. So a Chromebook is an innovative laptop that runs on Google's Chrome OS operating system which is not Windows or Mac operating system. So this is different than Windows or Mac computer. So Chrome OS is actually the same as Chrome browser but it's just a lot more than a browser. There are many other aspects and features of Chrome OS operating system which runs a Chromebook. So it doesn't take lots of resources. It doesn't take anything heavier. There's no hard drive. So for those reasons, it's much lighter and a less expensive option than our Windows Chromebook. Move on to the advantages of Chromebook. So Chromebook is cheap and lightweight which is very good for travel and I'm going to talk about this more later and then the startup is very fast and in terms of performance is very fast as well because when you start a Chromebook it would take about 2 to 3 seconds to get the login screen but if you have a Windows laptop it would take a long time to start your laptop and then in terms of security Chromebook is very secure which I'll talk about more later and everything you do on Chromebook is web based and there's no physical applications you can install or there's no applications to download and install however you can do have apps from Google Play Store but due to the fact that you cannot install Windows apps it takes lots of less resources and for that reason it doesn't need a very fast processor so that's why you can get it for so cheap and then Chromebook doesn't have any annoying updates everything is done in the background which something I do not like about Windows probably most of you don't it forces you to have updates or installing updates when you're working on something and it takes a lot longer to go through the updates on Windows but Chromebook is very different everything happens even wouldn't know that something is happening and then it has very longer battery life because it doesn't have lots of resources to run or it doesn't need a big processor or lots of applications and Chromebook actually you can install anything from Google Play so you can have Google apps think of Chromebook as a very big version of your mobile phone but with a lot more built into it so basically these are the main advantages and then the most striking advantage is Chromebook is very cheap you can find a Chromebook starting at $200 you can go as high as $1000 or more but you really don't need that for example this Chromebook is a very nice Chromebook with all the functions and features of a higher end Chromebook but still it's $400 but in terms of the features like convertibility and other stuff I have the same Windows which cost me $2000 you can see the difference is really dramatic so we'll talk about the disadvantages of Chromebook so on Chromebook you cannot install any games you cannot use this for video editing and you cannot use this for high performance tasks like editing or run programs or even like you know you cannot access work from home software from your Chromebook and then no installation of Windows software what it means that you cannot have any Windows applications directly onto your Chromebook because it doesn't have that functionality however I'm going to talk more on this later things are going to change so this one may not be applicable in the future anymore and we'll talk about at the end of this video and then you cannot have no full Office Word applications on Chromebook but there are ways you can still have like you know Office application or work on Microsoft Word or Excel I do have other videos on that which I'll provide links in the description box below the Chromebook storage is limited you know usually it doesn't come with a lot of storage due to the fact simply that it doesn't need that storage so for example you can have like you know lots of storage with your Windows computer but Chromebook usually is like you know this one for example is not is lesser than 60 GB and this one can be like you know 200 GB or 1000 GB or much more so it doesn't because it doesn't need lots of storage and if you are a corporate you know computer user and you need to access your computer work from home then it's not going to work on Chromebook because you know you cannot install Windows software to access work from home so this is not for like you know work from home for office or business it doesn't support that functional features Chromebook are mainly for online use other things are changing and these days you can do most of the task offline but still Chromebooks are meant to be online all the time so these are the main disadvantages so let's move on to our next topic Chromebook security so this is the main thing I like Chromebook security and simplicity built into Chrome OS from the ground up so what it means that Chromebook is always almost virus free and it's very hard although not impossible to you know affect Chromebook with a virus so even if you do that then there is another it moves on to the second option which is sandboxing what it means that every application tab or anything you are opening on your Chromebook is actually stays in a sandbox which you know cannot get out so let's say everything is being done separately from one another and everything stays under a different sandbox so if something gets affected Chromebook just closes that application that tab or that browser and the bad stuff cannot come out so once you let's say close that browser and it's gone so that's a very good feature you're not going to have on windows and another thing is let's say this feature somehow didn't work then the next step Chromebook would take is a verified boot what it means that you know when you restart the Chromebook then Chromebook always compares with current verified version to the latest released version and then it replaces with the latest you know secured version so let's say if this fails and even the sandboxing fails which is almost impossible then when it comes to verified boot and you restart your Chromebook then it's going to be like you know new again the virus or bad stuff cannot affect the Chromebook and then automatic updates you don't have any interruptions you don't have anything to worry about it just like it happens behind the background and anytime there's a security update or anything required Google would just push it through without even knowing it so that's a very good feature which is the most annoying thing about windows because you know you're always like an annoyed by or bombarded by updates and even it slows down your whole system or it just annoys you when you're working on something then another feature is Chromebook is the power wash so let's say if you are like you know not sure about something you can just do a power wash which is simply factory reset on Chromebook and it wipes everything and installs a clean version of Chrome OS so that's another security feature so you can see that you know there's so many protections one after another this fails then this kicks in this fails then it goes to here it doesn't work then you can go to here so for this reason it's almost impossible that you know your Chromebook can get affected and you can have virus on your Chromebook and then another option or another feature is that let's say if your Chromebook is got infected then you cannot boot your Chromebook with an infected system which I just talked about here so that means that Chromebook is going to compare the last secured version of Chrome OS and replace with your infected boot with the secured one so somehow if you even have an infected system then it's going to replace with the secured one so just basically the verified boot is something that protects your Chromebook and then there's another feature which is encryption I will talk about in the next which is related to whether you should be travelling with your Chromebook or not so this is why I like Chromebook when you travel next time you should take your Chromebook instead of your Windows laptop and the reason being Chromebook is always encrypted Windows laptops in general they're not encrypted some Windows are but most aren't Windows 10 Pro offers encryption if you pay $100 more but then you have to enable a BitLocker which is another headache so Chromebook you don't have no headaches no nothing it's encrypted by default so let's say if you lose your Windows laptops then if you have your files and all the information inside anyone can take it they don't need your password and they can just like you know boot your Windows laptop with another operating system or connect it to another computer and get all the information out from inside but with Chromebook because it's encrypted that is not possible no one can you know get in and take anything even if you lose it as long as you know you closed it and your password is a good password then it's impossible to like you know take stuff out of your Chromebook and another reason is that for Chromebook everything stays in the cloud basically the information you don't have anything much inside it because you're working on cloud you're connected to Google so that's another reason it's very safe so when you travel it's a much safer idea to have a Chromebook instead of your Windows and Chromebook is always you know encrypted and then another reason you should be traveling with your Chromebook that it's a lot cheaper than your Windows laptop so let's say I'm traveling with this $400 and I'm traveling with this $2000 laptop I wouldn't worry about too much if I lose this Chromebook or something happens to it because I'm only losing $400 but I would be worried or I would feel very bad if I lose the $2000 laptop so definitely you know I wouldn't do that I wouldn't travel with my Windows laptop but I would only take my travel with my Chromebook so that's another reason that you know it's so cheap that you know if you lose you know you wouldn't be worried about because you know it's so inexpensive and then another feature Chromebook has is that you know there's a guest mode which comes from the main screen so you can just you know use guest mode or you can let anyone use your Chromebook under guest mode and they don't have the they will not have the access to your you know your own user ID or any information under your user ID so that's very easy and the guest mode is just right on the front screen when you start a Chromebook then another reason it's better to travel with because of its lightweight so it's much lighter than your Windows laptop because of its size and you know there's no like you know hard drive or anything so it makes you light it doesn't slow you down because of its weight so that's another reason where you should be traveling with your Chromebook and then because you have access to all the Google apps and everything so if you need to look any like you know travel apps or any information you can just you know see it on your Chromebook while you travel you can have like you know any travel information you can have your banking information or everything because you know all the apps you can have on your cell phone you can have the same apps on here so it helps you a lot when you travel so for these reasons I would only travel with your Chromebook I wouldn't travel with any Windows laptop and then let's move on to our last topic which is what the future holds so until now Chromebooks didn't have the ability to you know access Windows applications because you know you cannot really install any Windows application on Chromebook because there is no space or it doesn't have that functionality to access to have installed download and install apps but this is changing Chromebook has recently announced that you know Chromebook is going to run Windows applications including my real Microsoft Office such as Excel Word PowerPoint but it's not going to be done by putting in downloading and installing real application but it's going to be done virtually so there's a company which is called Parallels and they are you know very good with virtualization of software so they are called the virtualization software company so basically they can mimic the Windows application somehow via cloud and you can have full access to Windows application on your Chromebook without downloading or installing any Windows application it hasn't come out yet this feature but it's coming out soon this was just recently announced that in the future Chromebook will be able to run Windows applications virtually and then in the future I have a feeling that a lot more to come at one point in the future probably Chromebook is going to have full functionality like your Windows laptop except all the weight or the expensive cost and everything so definitely Chromebook is the future laptop to go unless you are doing video editing photo editing or running some like you know or playing games which you need to install you cannot play those games online and then you do some other like you know hard core applications or some other work which has to be done on Windows operating system you can do most of the stuff on Chromebook so for that reason a Chromebook can replace most of the necessity or daily works of a Windows laptop the reason I still have to use Windows because of my video editing the video I edit on YouTube those cannot be done on Chrome yet although they are like you know for lighter video editing their apps but those cannot have those do not offer a full feature video editing software it's just a slide app which you can use on your cell phone or Chromebook but the reason I use Chromebook because of the video editing software which has to run on Windows except that for everything else I use Chromebook and it's a lot more secure it gives you a peace of mind it's fast and it lasts a long time the battery life is a lot longer than your Windows counterpart so for this reason definitely Chromebook is you know the laptop to go and in the future there will be more coming to the Chromebook and we'll wait and see you know what the future holds for the Chromebook thank you for watching this video forget about subscribing this channel forget about liking this video there will be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you