Originally Posted by
glennaa11
I got a Chromebook last summer. In general it does most things I need. Mine is the Samsung Chromebook Pro which is a little more expensive than most others but offers a bit better performance and features.
Otherwise there are plenty of light ultrabooks out there these days. The LG Gram line are very light, but can be a little pricey. Samsung also makes a line of very light laptops.
I got a this generation Pixel Book and it works fine. That said so does my iPad Pro with keyboard. The keyboard and screen are definitely better on the Pixel Book. For security or in my case collaboration, I put a great many document on various web storage sites. With either device I can put a spreadsheet in Dropbox, Google Docs or iCloud. The access varies by device a bit but only a bit. I have the Android or iOS MS Office suite on both devices and it works well with cloud storage docs. The advantage of cloud storage is that if someone steals your device you docs are still pretty safe. Life is compromises though. You can’t get a big screen without more weight. You sort of have to decide where in the spectrum you want to be and what device works best with your software needs.