Needing a laptop for sending emails and excel, word, etc while doing sales on the road. Mostly web based applications. Would the ChromeBook suffice?

Yes, but I feel like most people would be unhappy with how limited they are.

Whenever a question like this comes up, I recommend buying a used Lenovo or Dell. Plenty of resellers on eBay.

Grab you the cheapest MacBook Air.

https://www.amazon.com/2022-Apple-MacBook-Laptop-chip/dp/B0B3C2R8MP/

Should last you years. I've got one from 2013 still going.

Wildmen03 said:

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Yes, but I feel like most people would be unhappy with how limited they are.

Whenever a question like this comes up, I recommend buying a used Lenovo or Dell. Plenty of resellers on eBay.

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Lenovo ThinkPad T480 or T490

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but I feel like most people would be unhappy with how limited they are.

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Whenever a comment like this comes up, I recommend asking the question: "what is limiting about a chromebook to do basic apps (email excel, word, etc)"?

Unless you are doing some fairly specific functions within Excel, Google Sheets covers 99% of what you need to do, and actually has things that Excel doesn't. Same for Word with Google Docs.

This is exactly the use case a chromebook was built for.

techno-ag said:

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Grab you the cheapest MacBook Air.

https://www.amazon.com/2022-Apple-MacBook-Laptop-chip/dp/B0B3C2R8MP/

Should last you years. I've got one from 2013 still going.

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I just did this for word processing and class projects, except the cheapest current gen with the 15" screen. It's not that much more than buying old tech and i'm impressed with the build quality.

I'm traditionally a PC guy and would never consider having a mac over a PC desktop, but if you have an iphone then the ecosystem synergy with the laptop is pretty great.


If you aren't an iphone person and have a strong preference to Windows, the newest Surface Laptops are supposed to be really good. Basically a straight competitor to the Macbook Air, from what I can tell.