• Just bought a Chromebook for myself for Christmas, I have a few questions about it.
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Bought myself a Chromebook for Christmas, wondering what the limitations are in regards to google drive and whether or not it can remote desktop to my PC. I haven't messed around with google drive too much but I'm betting you can upload videos and shit to it. If that's the case how well do they stream? I'm hoping at roughly youtube levels, but I haven't tried it. Also I know it has a small amount of actual HD space, can I use it to remote desktop? I know Chrome has an extension for that but I'm not sure if it's limited to only doing stuff in files or if I could use it to play games or shit. (Mostly I want to be able to do garrison nonsense in wow because i'm pathetic and can't be home all the time) How good is the chrome extension for it? Anything else I should know about a chromebook? I bought the HP11 since it seemed like the best option for me.
Remote desktop Install this [url]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desktop/gbchcmhmhahfdphkhkmpfmihenigjmpp[/url]
Honestly, it was a bad buy. The HP versions of the Chromebook are known to have issues, and HP laptops in general are pretty awful. Also, you won't be able to run any mainstream games on it since it doesn't have an x86 processor.
You'd be able to do that if you did it with remote desktop, wouldn't you? I wasn't planning on putting games on it anyway since the HD is so small.
Pretty sure chromes remote desktop doesn't work for playing games or anything like that. All chromebooks are good for is email, browsing and word processing if you like googles MS office equivalents
Eh, that's okay. Really I just need it for homework and taking notes and shit, that'd jsut be a nice side benefit.
Well, you could play browser games lol
Feel like maybe ya should have figured that one out before getting it? Itll do note taking fine but not much else.
Chromebooks for me, as a college student, would just be a no-nonsense work machine with google docs and spreadsheet. So then I'd spend 200-400 dollars on a computer that can only install a web browser and it's apps. That being said, I'd love to have one myself. I don't do much besides use the internet anyway. I rarely play games.
That's more or less what I'm using it for anyway, mostly it'll be for notes and papers. Just wondering what other stuff it can do.
You can upload videos to your own drive and they stream just like if it were on YouTube.
[QUOTE=Remedial Math;46769076]You'd be able to do that if you did it with remote desktop, wouldn't you? I wasn't planning on putting games on it anyway since the HD is so small.[/QUOTE] The only way you'd be able to stream games over remote desktop is if you had like a fiber connection between the chromebook and the computer the game was running on and they were like 3 feet apart.
You wouldn't need to stream the game, though, it'd be running on your home PC and you'd just be interacting with it over remote desktop, right? Or am I just hilariously misunderstanding how remote desktop works?
Remote desktop streams the desktop of the other computer to the computer you are currently using
[QUOTE=Remedial Math;46775567]You wouldn't need to stream the game, though, it'd be running on your home PC and you'd just be interacting with it over remote desktop, right? Or am I just hilariously misunderstanding how remote desktop works?[/QUOTE] i've got high end USA internet speeds when i was remote desktoping from a location that has effectively infinite internet speeds, latency was about 4 seconds imagine playing a game with a 4 second delay
that's not an issue since the only thing I really need it for is to click like four buttons once a week or manage garrison shit when i'm not at home, which is a static interface
I've been able to use remote desktop to play slow games like XCOM, X-Plane, and Sim City 4 over the internet. No good for action games, though.
[QUOTE=LordCrypto;46775683]i've got high end USA internet speeds when i was remote desktoping from a location that has effectively infinite internet speeds, latency was about 4 seconds imagine playing a game with a 4 second delay[/QUOTE] Latency also depends on what you use for streaming. There are variables like buffers and compression that have a big impact on latency.
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