“Will thus be somewhat compatible with apple products? Ipad, iPhone? If not, what should i be looking for simple for backing up these devices, and ideally have the ability to send receive and save documents, PDFs etc Between devices.”
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I got my wife this Chromebook for Christmas after months of researching it. We both have iPhones and a very old MacBook that is on its last leg. We aren't in the budget for another MacBook anytime soon, but after having this little ASUS Flip for a few weeks, I don't know that we'll ever get another expensive computer. We love it, and I'm probably gonna get one for myself. You need to have a Gmail account in order to be able to use this, or any Chromebook. If email, internet, and occasional office suite documents/projects is all you do, this may be the product for you. You will not be able to back up your Apple devices to a Chromebook, so if you don't have a primary computer that you can back up to, I would recommend increasing your iCould storage and backing up to the cloud. But to your other question about sending and receiving documents/PDFs between devices... no problem. Google Docs handles just about anything you might have done in Word... but with Android Apps on the Chromebook, you can even download the Microsoft Suite apps for Word, Xcel, etc. There's also another great app called Pushbullet that you can install on your iPhone and your Chromebook and send/receive files across platforms that way. We use it all the time. This is a great device. It's built well. It's blazing fast. It just works. If you get one, pay the extra $30-$50 for the 4gb version, you won't regret it. Hope this helps.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I guess it depends on what exactly it is that you need to be able to have be compatible. If you work in the Google suite on your iPhone, or you use Evernote, or the Microsoft products (Word/Excel/etc.) then all of these things can be retrieved from the Chromebook. You can always use a service such as Google Drive to back up your files and view them on both the iPhone/iPad and the Chromebook. Chromebooks tend to come with 2 free years of 100 GB of Google Drive cloud storage, so you can use that offer to see if that is an adequately save your documents/pictures/PDFs/MP3s/etc. and view them across services. You can also sync Microsoft services to both sets of devices. Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote, etc. Microsoft has a good online suite that is compatible with any document or file you create in the corresponding iPhone/iPad app. Pocket, Evernote, Google Keep, and many other services have Chrome extensions that you can use on the Chromebook to read what you've done on your phone.
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