A:AnswerWith Google docs it's a great note taking machine. The play store has been added to this device so any apps on play store for phones should be able to be downloaded. Google makes equivalent apps to Microsoft ones. Microsoft ones are more powerful but Google ones work 99% of the time
A:AnswerThere are some features of Google Apps, Sheets and Docs, that can be used offline but Chromebooks are just a basic browsing machine and not much use unless conncted to internet.
A:AnswerYes, it still uses chrome like any other laptop so you can use and web based emails. In general, if it's web-based you're when you start getting to third-party apps is when you're gonna run into issues.
A:AnswerThis computer is a chromebook, not windows, works great, fairly small, but I use it mainly to pull up recipes for my voffee dhop. I do like it. But it is not the same as alaptop.
A:AnswerThe Playstore icon appears on the launcher screen & also the taskbar.
All of these apps show an install button , so yes they should be installable although did not install on my machine to check the functionality.