CrossOver provides the ability to run Windows applications, like Microsoft Office, natively on the Chromebook.
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Full disclaimer, CrossOver on Chrome OS is my company’s software. First, I installed CrossOver on Chrome OS. To help make this experiment more palatable, I pre-loaded my Chromebook with all the essentials and not so essentials for business travel. I was hoping that change wasn’t as hard as advertised. Thus, I traded in my Macbook with its bulk and weight and power charger for a lighter and sleeker Chromebook. So in order to SIMPLIFY MY LIFE, I decided that I would not only limit myself to one suitcase and one carry-on for Europe but that, I would shed any additional weight and items not absolutely critical to my travel and slim down to a simple sack pack. In Minneapolis, I left a shopping bag with presents purchased for my wife and daughter from that week’s work destination. In Las Vegas, I left behind my MacBook on a hotel shuttle. In Norway, I forgot a bag on a train that contained both my passport and my wallet. I’m also a good test subject because I’ve left bags behind on planes, trains, and shuttles just because I forgot all the items I was carrying at that very moment.
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And sack packs, while great as an easy to access carry-on, just aren’t built to house a laptop, power cords, travel itineraries, pens, books, battery backups, portable hard drives, various cables, and on and on and on.
I burn through briefcases, messenger bags, tote bags, and backpacks due to the sheer weight of the amount of things I pack. If a normal rational person plans to take a suitcase and a carry-on for their trip, I’m likely to pack two suitcases and two carry-ons for the same trip. I’m a good test subject because I PACK EVERYTHING. The mere thought of returning to very late nights hunched over my computer answering e-mail upon e-mail upon e-mail gave me pause that maybe this experiment would have been best served upon one of my employees, maybe our Director of Marketing but as I made my way onboard the Airbus A330, I quietly accepted that I was most likely the best subject for this exact test.
Failure to do so would mean I’d spend countless hours in my following weeks catching up on productivity lost. Not only was I leaving behind all the technology that I knew (and loved), but I was venturing out into the world with little more than a fleeting hope that I’d manage to be as productive and entertained with my newfound Google Chromebook. As I boarded my flight from Minneapolis to Warsaw by way of Paris, I was struck with an eerie feeling that this was the first business trip in ten years where I didn’t have my trusty MacBook by my side.
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