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There are also numerous Chrome apps for, say, editing photos so I was able to do all the tasks necessary to posting an entry on Panbo, which is something I've never figured out how to do with an iPad. It's a little hard to find the settings but once done your recent Gmail and all Google docs are automatically cached on the Chromebook and then synchronized once you're back online, if you've changed them. And of course Google's whole cloud philosophy is why I didn't lose any data whatsoever and could set up another Chromebook in minutes.Īnd don't be fooled by reviewers who think that Chromebooks only work when online. It was not a problem to enable the voucher and then cancel my subscription without disturbing the 78 gigs of data I've already uploaded to Google's cloud. In fact, I count my Chromebook cost at $129 because while the Samsung sells for $249 on Amazon it includes two years of 100 gig Google Drive that I was already paying $5 a month for. If so, they must have been quite disappointed as the silver plastic Chromebook is much less elegantly constructed, much less powerful, and much less valuable. Now I'm resigned to the loss after all, it's quite possible that someone in that tourist-crowded security area chaos was bold enough to snatch my orphaned laptop, but here's hoping that they thought it was a Mac Air. Messages to the Las Palmas airport Lost and Found department have gone unanswered and a writer friend who checked their office on her way out Friday found it locked. Yup, that's what I did very early Wednesday morning, and then didn't realize my idiotic move until the next flight left Madrid and I was ready to use the Chromebook to catch up on email and write Panbo entries.