Chrome OS in general
- The users can use external USB storage device.
- They cannot use LAN based file system. There is a way to do this we do not recommend - https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/wiki/How-to-mount-network-shares-on-Chromebook-using-smbnetfs. One can do remote desktop connection to login to other machines on the network using the “chrome remote desktop” extension.
- The users are also able to open the office documents (doc, excel) directly like they do on ordinary machines using the pre-packaged extension. One can open word/excel/ppt files from a USB external storage or on downloaded files, even without an Internet (or network) connection.
- Ease of getting to full screen mode and ability to hide the task bar allows one to use the full screen and take full advantage of screen real estate.
- One needs to sign-in using their Google account. If signed in as guest one wouldn’t get any of extensions.
- Dropbox integration is less that ideal since there is no concept of syncing to local file system (hence keeping the files offline). Local syncing feature is only available for google drive. One can use CloudHQ (here are pricing for it - https://www.cloudhq.net/dropbox/prices). One can synchronise dropbox with google drive to get around this issue essentially.
- It has lesser hard disk space (for example - Acer C720 has 16 GB total, this , http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/acer-c720-chromebook.html#ac-c720, this might be slightly lesser after leaving out space for OS). If one is using Google drive and has good Internet connection this size logically goes up.
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