
This has now turned out to be lifesaver given the current circumstances.

It wasn't especially fast when I bought it in 2011, and I made the mistake of updating the laptop's OS from Windows 7 to Windows 10 in 2016, which essentially turned it into a battery-powered paperweight. I suddenly have three kids at home all doing schoolwork online through Google Classroom and other services, and only one of them has a school-issued Chromebook, which is a laptop running on Google's Chrome operating system.īack before their school year started, though, I knew we might eventually need an extra laptop, so I converted an old Windows 7 HP netbook into a Chromebook.

The coronavirus dumped a whole mess of wrenches into the machine of everyday life. For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites.
