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Originally Posted by cataddict
Not the OP, buy I would appreciate more detail than just a "not Chromebook."
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I don't know if this is still the case with Chromebooks, but my uncle has had two of them over the years and I checked the specs and they both seem to have inadequate hard drive storage space for my needs, to say the least, even for a secondary laptop/tablet. Personally, I need at least a little room to be able to save short video clips (usually knitting tutorial videos that are less than 10 minutes long), some photos, documents, etc. Oh, and when I used to travel or knew I'd be stuck somewhere with spotty wifi, I liked to be able to download episodes of shows on Netflix through the Netflix app beforehand so I could watch them even when offline. That was a big space hog but convenient.
My little Lenovo Yoga (many years old at this point) doesn't have a ton of storage space or anything. It came with 117gb of hard drive storage (some of which gets eaten up by the operating system and apps I assume) and currently I still have about 39gb free, even with my knitting videos, photos, and some documents on there.
So long as I have 100-200GB to work with, I'm happy and don't run into issues on my secondary/"travel" laptop. My main laptop has over 1TB of storage but that's where all my music/podcasts, photos, youtube video downloads, etc. are stored. (I won't even go into the 5TB external hard drive I use for backup and overflow.)
But yeah, 100-200GB is about as minimalist as I personally want to go for storage on a secondary laptop. Maybe Chromebooks have more storage now? Or maybe there's an easy way to add storage if needed? Or maybe there are other, more critical drawbacks?
My uncle loves his current Chromebook by the way, so they are great for some.