THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO… Chromebooks

The first Chromebooks turned up in the summer of 2011, and it’s fair to say they’ve come a long, long way since then – while the core of being a laptop that focuses on the web is intact, they’re now much more capable when Wi-Fi is limited or not available at all, and their ability to run Android apps adds a whole new dimension to what you can expect from a laptop running Chrome OS.

Just about any app that runs on an Android phone will also now run on a Chromebook, straight from the Google Play Store. It’s just the latest in a series of leaps for what Chromebooks are capable of and how useful they can be.

Sometimes that means access to apps you wouldn’t otherwise be able to get on a laptop (like Instagram or Snapchat), and sometimes that means extra features that