This document introduces you to the outside of a Commercially produced Chromebook. It also shows you the exterior of an old Windows Machine that was converted to a Chromebook.

This document introduces the Chrome and Chromium O/S. It shows you how to tell the difference between a commercial Chromebook and a DIY Chrombook. It provides a little guidance about the discernment required to buy a Commercial Chromebook. It encourages users to REUSE old computers by converting them into Chromebooks now and into perpetuity. It provides information related to the first user account and the "Machine Owner" role that user takes on. It also introduces machine resets.

This document introduces the Login Screen in detail. It picks up assuming there is at least one user account created. It breaks the login screen into 8 parts / items.

This document picks up as if you've just successfully logged in to a Chrome O/S device. It introduces Wall Paper and the Desktop. It introduces "the shelf" (aka a menu bar) and the App Launcher button in the bottom left (aka the Launcher) which leads to apps. It introduces the "oval status area" and the significant pop-op that comes up if you click on that with all kinds of tools and options. (NOTE: It's not intuitive the information accessible from the oval status area would be there. A separate button type system would have been far better, but nobody asked me.)

This document picks up with the apps screen. It provides a framework for trying to mentally categorize or organize what Google calls "apps". It then provides links to google resources for App crossover information which many will find extremely handy.

An introduction to the Gear Icon and Machine and O/S Settings

This document goes over the protocals and security information related to having multiple users logged into a Chrome O/S device at one time. The machine will store user profiles privately and users can log in one at a time. If multiple users want to be logged in at one time for convenience, that's fine, but there is no security between those accounts when they are all logged in together. There is a toggle option that switches the screen(s) from one user account to another until they all logout. (THIS IS SIMILAR BUT QUITE DIFFERENT THAN HAVING MULTIPLE USERS LOGGED INTO THE CHROME BROWSER ON A PC OR MAC AND THAT IS DISCUSSED BRIEFLY IN THIS DOCUMENT.)

A computer is not a computer without an External Monitor. Commercial Chromebooks and all laptops are designed to handle at least one external monitor in addition to the built in one. Some of the commercial Chromebooks seem to be able to handle two external monitors as long as one is a USB 3.0 monitor. Also, there is another lowcost option for adding more monitors, but these should be for slow motion stuff or normal streaming. They likely won't work great for high speed gaming, or should be tested first (somehow).

This document covers the following:

What is a Web Browser? What does it do? What is Browsing or Surfing the Internet?

How does this Walkie-Talkie-like system work? What is a Web Address/URL?

What are some analogies to TV use?

Websites present and do different things. Many people have never taken the time to inventory the different types of sites and what they do. I found sites related to podcasting to be the most confusing and I'm a very seasoned technology person. These poor folks ahead of me and behind me with less technology background are so lost it's silly. Hopefully this seemingly simple document will help out more than most can imagine.

This document introduces vocabulary related to HTML, http, https, DNS and a few other acronyms as well as providing a glimpse at the larger framework that enables browsers to operate.