At the end of this month my business will be three years old. Up until lock down it had been going very well and I am hoping and confident that things will get back to some sort of normal soon. When I started I wasn’t sure if it would ever get off the ground, after all, I had had no experience of working for myself or indeed looking for the kind of business I was going after. I was keen to be prudent with my finances and make sure that what I invested in was good value.
I looked around for a computer to work from and eventually settled upon a Chromebook, from Argos for £169. I bought it up at Consett in Durham.
At first I was a little concerned that it would be able to do everything that my Microsoft laptop could do when I was in full time employment. It couldn’t, but in truth it could do nearly everything that I needed. Spreadsheets, word processing, and presentations are the bread and butter of my work and it coped with these admirably. Software updates happened without a hitch and the battery life was all day. It was so light that at times I forgot I had it with me. My only regret was that I didn’t pay the extra £20 to get more memory as it got a bit leaky after a few hours.
It has been a fantastic tool for running my business and at a cost of £1.08 per week has been excellent value. That is about 15p per day!
You may have noticed that I have been using the past tense because today I have bought a new Chromebook. The automatic updates are only delivered for three years and that time has passed. I am typing this on my brand new Asus C202X which I set up this morning. Basically the instructions were charge it up, switch it on.
Oh, and I did go for the larger memory this time, which has pushed the price up to 18p per day. Believe me, it’s worth it.
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 
Fantasticly cost effective.
Bit sad that the old one isnt being supported any more. No chance of loading Linux on it?
Never thought to do so thanks. I’ll probably give it away to someone who can use it.