You have purchased one of the easiest computers to manage with performance that beats damn near anything else at a fraction of the cost.

It is different though

Chrome OS is not for everyone but if it fits your needs it is outstanding.

Seems everyone wants to educate me on whats there, or 'allowed' I need to know what CAN be allowed, and that which can NOT!

first a chrome book works much better when tied to a google account you actually use.

A google account includes a lot of things many are not aware of including email calendar contacts and online storage among others.

To truly make use of a chrome book you need to leverage those services.

You can connect the mail app to other accounts and view your mail but it all works so much more seamlessly when you stick to google.

When you first start a chrome book on the bottom task bar you should have Icons for each of these services. I think the hardest for most people to get their head around is the online storage or Drive. Basically drive functions pretty similar to normal computer storage it just lives mostly in the cloud and the interface is a little different.

The newer chrome books also will work with apps from the google play store so in a sense they will also run software but only play store enabled apps. you can not install third party software from outside sources. that said the play store is pretty full featured at this point and you should be able to find an app for just about anything assuming the Chromebook you just bought supports the play store.

If it doesn't then things become much more limited. Yet still fully functional if your usage of the machine is limited to web browsing email file storage and document or other office type uses.

does your new Chromebook support the play store? do you know if not do you know the model I can look it up and tell you.

They do have a bit of a learning curve to be sure but they can be reset in under 5 minutes if there is a problem and all of your stuff comes right back with a fresh clean install. it will probably be a bit painful at first but if you stick with it you will likely grow to love it.

I am a pc guy I build em fix em and live on them nearly 24/7 but I love my chrome book above everything else when working from the couch. i bought my first one to demo for a client that was thinking of getting one and fell in love with it.

I just bought a PC with Google Chrome....must be the latest? IS THERE AN EARLIER VERSION?

Sorry for the caps

is it actually a pc as in windows or Chrome OS? Two entirely different animals.

I am now on my PC not my laptop

in that case yes there are earlier versions of Chrome OS.

That said if the machine is new you should be on the latest stable version.

This year it's free...what about next year?

and again it should then Excel is or should be available.

That said googles answer to excel is sheets and it will do a lot of the stuff excel will do not all but most, it will also do things excell can not.

A mixed bag to be sure.

Also there is always office online if you have a microsoft account you can use the free web based version if you absolutely can not do with sheets.

I believe they give you a terabyte of storage for free with a new machine. Have not looked in a while and after a year that runs $1.99 a month but you also get I believe 15 gigs free forever. so depending on your needs you may or may not want to pay for storage after.

I recall hating the new version of MS3

I have it now..the email, that is.

Email does not reside in foxfire (what's foxfire?) or Firefox (the browser does not handle email). No wonder you couldn't find it there.

"decrepit" is not a word. Please use a thesaurus or dictionary to find the word you are looking for.

"the planet of will not even be considered" What language is that written in?

You don't replace software by unscrewing a panel and opening the back of the computer.

Using it as a verb is a novel move, right enough but then language lives and breathes, and nouns (and in this case, even adjectives) are verbed and verbs are nouned quite often as neologisms.

and they are not Google then a chromebook may not be for you. Getting from Chrome to a standard-format Word document for example seems to be quite a challenge for those who use them.

AND I have no idea how to connect???