[lug] Computer For Small Retail Business

[Davide Del Vento]

I think Chromebook and Chromebox are an excellent choice IF YOU MAKE SURE
your user fully understand the "limited functionality". For example, in
Google docs you cannot have text rotated vertically (in a way often times
people do in fliers, e.g. to have an address the reader of the flier tears
away). This is just an example, there are many many things people are used
to with MS Office, Libre Office or even KOffice that Google docs lacks. At
work we have Google Docs and some people joke that it does not have any
feature whatsoever, besides the "sharing" (which your user does not need,
if I understand correctly).

He can try the "Chromebook experience" on his Mac already. Unistall
everything and see if he can live with his browser only.

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Robert Racansky <robert.racansky at gmail.com>
wrote:

> A friend of mine who operates his own retail shop is moving to a
> larger store, and asked me for recommendations for replacing his
> current computer setup, which is an old MacBook with a broken
> keyboard.
>
> My recommendation to him was
>
> - Acer 720 Chromebook:  $240
> - Samsung SL-M202W "Cloud Print" compatible printer:  $65
>
>
> My reasoning is in this document ( 7 page PDF ):
>
> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9AN5yLBiVOnb05UdzRJNTducUk/
>
>
> If any of you have other suggestions, or criticisms, I would appreciate
> them.
>
> Keep in mind that this guy is not a technical user, so I want him to
> be able to do his work without having to call me for help all of the
> time.
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