![]() ![]() What are you going to do? You press Alt-Backspace. To make matters worse, there is no DEL key. Page up and down can be emulated by pressing Alt (or alternatively Search) plus the Cursor Up and Down keys.īy pressing Ctrl Alt and cursor left/right, you can emulate the Home and End keys, however I had no luck with Home and End in Google Docs (opens in new tab). There are also no “productivity keys”: Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down. I think Google should include a printed booklet or manual that begins with "The Chromebook keyboard". Pressing Alt together with the Search key enables and disables Caps Lock mode. HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO WRITE BELLIGERENT EMAILS WITHOUT IT?. The tab key is there but next to it you will be shocked to find there is no caps lock key. My Chromebook has a chiclet style keyboard with a very comfortable layout, 1.5mm key travel, and accurate key spacing, making typing a joy. You won't find a Caps Lock key on your Chromebook's keyboard (Image credit: Fernando Cassia) Keyboard shock But let’s leave the naming madness rant for the conclusion. What is the everything button? The search key. Alternatively, you can click or press the "everything" button. Depending on whether your Chromebook has a touch screen or a touchpad, you can open it by clicking it with the touchpad, tapping it-if it has a touch screen, or by pressing the search key on the keyboard. Because the round icon that brings up the launcher is now called the "Everything button". Once you move the mouse over it a tooltip reads “launch”.īut why does it have an “encircled round button” icon? for lack of a better description. So its icon must say Launch right? Well, no. On Chrome OS, there's a round icon in the same bottom-left corner of the screen where the Start Button is on Windows. By now, it went by different names, so it depends on who you ask. What about the start menu? It has a start menu, but it's called something else. The Settings screen is much, much easier to navigate than anything you have ever seen from Redmond. Nevertheless, if you want to save money, you should consider purchasing a normal laptop (opens in new tab) instead.Ĭhrome OS also has a much simpler settings menu (Image credit: Google) ![]() In short: you can have Windows on Chrome OS with plenty of money. Parallels requires a Chromebook with an Intel Core i5 or Intel Core i7 processor, AMD Ryzen 5 or AMD Ryzen 7 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage or more, plus the licensing fee per year. ![]() It will cost you $59 to install and run Codeweavers CrossOver for Chrome if you want less headaches along with a certain degree of compatibility assurance so you will be able to run Quicken, Microsoft Office, or DirectX games like Wizard101.Ĭompanies that might prefer Chromebooks for reasons of manageability have the option of using Parallels Desktop for ChromeOS (opens in new tab), which guarantees complete compatibility with Windows, basically you get the full Windows experience inside a Chromebook. While you can run Windows utilities and apps inside a Chromebook's Linux environment using the open-source WINE compatibility layer available from the Linux repositories, success isn't guaranteed, and compatibility varies from application to application. Secondly, it means that if you only use heavy Windows apps that do not have Android, Linux or web-based versions, a Chromebook isn't worth the hassle. You’ll find that you do not need a fat and complex operating system to get online and accomplish your tasks even if you don’t enable its optional Android and Linux app subsystems.Ĭhrome OS' main disadvantage can be summed up with this: it isn't Windows. In terms of purely functional principles, Chrome OS is not only faster -starting with booting within seconds- but also much leaner than Windows for one simple reason: it is not required to support tons of legacy APIs like with Microsoft's OS. ![]()
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