Laptop vs Chromebook: which is best for you?

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If you need a new creative workstation, the question of laptop vs Chromebook is one that everyone should consider. Chromebooks are thin and light, with a fast web-based operating system, ChromeOS. With budgets getting tighter, many people are looking at Chromebooks as an alternative to laptops, but what are the best ones? 

If you're not familiar with Chromebooks, they're a category of laptop pioneered by Google, that run the ChromeOS operating system as opposed to bigger, bloated systems like MacOS or Windows. These laptops are designed to get certain tasks done easier and faster, by making use of cloud storage instead of local storage, and the lack of heavy software offers smoother performance and faster boot up speeds. 

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Beth Nicholls
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Beth is Creative Bloq’s Ecommerce Writer and has the fun job of finding you the very best prices and deals on creative tech. Beth kicked off her journalistic career writing for Digital Camera World, and has since earned bylines on TechRadar too. With a Masters degree in Photography, Beth loves getting to tinker with new cameras, especially camera phones, as the resident Samsung fan on the team. Her background working as a tester for CeX let her play around with all kinds of weird and wonderful products, including robots, and she’s recently gotten into 3D printing too. Outside of CB, you’ll find her gaming on her PS5, photographing local shows under the alias Bethshootsbands, and making TikToks of her dog, Tilly. 

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