Tech Advisor - UK (2020-02)

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 61 Chromebooks generally favour lower-performance Intel Atom chips (branded as Pentium or Celeron) ...

62 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020 COMPARISON Chromebook and Windows PCs features have a lot of overlap, too. Though you’ll find th ...

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 63 storage to be used, though Google would prefer you to store your apps and files in the cloud. A ...

64 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020 COMPARISON find that Office Online sometimes gets updated with new features before they arrive o ...

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 65 version of Office at the time. (Office apps like Word now autosave, too.) For our purposes, both ...

66 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020 COMPARISON Can a Chromebook play games as well as a Windows PC? With the vast history of classic ...

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 67 You’ll never reach PC levels of graphics quality, like 2018’s Kingdom Come, without a cloud-gami ...

68 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020 COMPARISON Chrome apps can be found within the Chrome Web Store, where there are both utilities, ...

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 69 chips, so location-specific apps won’t work. Ditto for those who rely on rear cameras that the C ...

70 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020 COMPARISON a Windows PC, booting and resuming them just generally feels more efficient than Wind ...

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 71 opening it. Windows allows you to right-click a file and perform any number of operations on it; ...

72 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020 COMPARISON Which is more secure, a Chromebook or a Windows PC? Security isn’t a question that ca ...

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 73 keys for logging in can be used, a typical home user probably wouldn’t. Windows PCs also prefer ...

74 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020 COMPARISON component makers to provide drivers also plays a role. Hardware failures will eventua ...

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 75 Which is better, a Chromebook or laptop? While we can’t say for certain which platform you’ll pr ...

76 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020 COMPARISON to the Chrome OS experience (especially where file management and printing is concern ...

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 77 Hands-on with Microsoft’s Project xCloud W hen Microsoft began calling for people to test its Pr ...

78 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020 FEATURE I’ve been trying the Project xCloud beta off and on for more than a week now. Keep in mi ...

FEBRUARY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 79 essentially an extension of this.) Over a wireless LAN, lag increases even further. Remember tha ...

80 TECH ADVISOR • FEBRUARY 2020 FEATURE of Thieves because I wanted to see how the service accommodated faster games. My test be ...