www.google.com/intl/en_uk/chrome/devices/landing.html

For always backed up
Store and access your photos, music, videos, documents and more from anywhere with Google Drive. It’s simple. And it’s always backed up.

Key specs
11.6’’ screen
0.7 inches / 2.42 pounds
6.5 hours of battery (Varies based on usage)
Boots up in less than 10 seconds
100 GB of Google Drive free for 2 years

Hmmm "free for 2 years"? So they're going to start charging us for our storage?

Well, the no hard drive/on board storage is starting to take off

I could see this coming years ago and I'm not even a techy

I wonder if you can connect an external hard drive

100 GB Google Drive Cloud Storage2 with Solid State Drive

^^^^ What does "with Solid State Drive" mean? Does the Chromebook have on board storage?

irrepressible wrote:
some info may help to see if that's what you may want

www.thetop10bestonlinebackup.com/cloud-storage

www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/#u...s-bkws&utm_medium=ha

irrepressible wrote:
If you open it up and connect up some ports you can prolly get an external drive on it.
It probably won't recognise it unless you get it to boot linux though...that said, they only need to lock down the BIOS and that'll be the end of that too.

You can expect thin client stuff like this everywhere with 4g its inevitable and you don't need to be a techy to see it like you say.