Ringel05 since you are experienced with this crap, lol.
I need to get another pc I guess. But MrGracie has a laptop and he said he will give it to me unless I wanna keep something else once bought. Which is the dilemma.
What is the difference between an IPAD, Chromebook, notebook and other similar tablets?
Neither of us use the pc as much as we used to. However, we both play games (solitare, etc..not gamers game stuff), we both need our email, we both want to watch netflix etc, browse the net, post on twitter, order online stuff, banking, etc. Thats about it. So if he bought one..which would suffice for him if we choose that route instead of another laptop?
What are the differences with these tablet thingies?
Based on your limited use, and simple needs, it is my opinion that you should buy a Chromebook.
This is the cheapest, and simplest method for achieving all that you require. It also require the least amount of maintenance. Little chance of crashes, or having issues. Can't really have viruses, or malware, or adware (that I am aware of).
Now this will require you to re-learn how to do a few things. However, nearly everything is fairly simple.
For example, there is no solitaire program on a Chomebook. Instead you will just type solitaire into your web browser, and you can play right from there.
However, once you get past the few things that are different, you should be set. Chromebooks are easy, simple, cheap, and do most everything I can see you needing to do.
That said, I want to just say the obvious, that with any group of products, there are terrible ones. So don't buy the absolute cheapest Chromebook you can.
I personally would either buy from ASUS, or Google Pixelbook. (why Google calls their Chromebooks, Pixelbooks, I don't know)
Do not buy Lenovo Chromebooks. It's a paperweight. Still relatively cheap for a computerized paperweight, but a paperweight nonetheless.
With ChromeCast you should be able to play your netflix on most TVs. Again, if you buy a decent enough Chromebook, you should have no problem at all watching anything from a Chromebook.
Based on what you have said, I think you will be perfectly happy with a Chromebook.
However, if you do not wanting to re-learn anything, then I would buy a low-end windows laptop. You won't have to change anything on how you do stuff, because it will be identical to what you know already.
The iPad is a fantastic device. Lot's of features, cool abilities, does all kinds of neat stuff. Very easy to use. Two things about that:
Do you have an iPhone? An iPad runs on the same software as an iPhone. If you have used an iPhone at some point, then you know what an iPad is. It will do everything you want. However, it is not Windows. Everything will be different from Windows.
Additionally, iPad's are powerful little computers, and thus are generally more expensive. Comparing the cost and power of an iPad, to what you intend to use it for, is a bit of an over kill.
It's like using IBM's $97 Million Supercomputer at NASA, to play cards.
I personally love Apple products, and I think the iPad is a great product, I just don't think you really need it for what you want.
Hope that helps.
