I received an Acer* Chromebook for Christmas and I haven’t had much time to really work with it. I’ve gone through the short setup, read my Gmail on it and browsed the web a bit but I’ve never really taken it through its paces. I’ve never put it to the test. For the entire month of February, I’m going to use my Chromebook exclusively for everything** business and personal. My experiment’s hypothesis is, “Can I survive for one month with just a Chromebook?***”

Is it possible to use nothing but web-based applications for one month? Most of the work I do is via web applications, so the test is not far-fetched. There are online versions of almost everything I need to use.

Web-based applications that I’ll use during my experiment:Google Docs – Word processing, Spreadsheets, PresentationsWordpress – My Frugal Networker blog siteZDNet’s Publishing Interface – Articles and posts for Consumerization and VirtualizationGraphics Creation and Manipulation – I’m open for suggestionsGmail – EmailOther – If I discover that I have other needs, I’ll respond to those as I uncover them.

Google Docs can handle my need for word processing. I don’t really do all that much with spreadsheets or presentations but if I have that need, I think Google Docs can handle it. As for my own site, The Frugal Networker, I have WordPress to make those entries. ZDNet’s publishing interface is web-based. I’ll use Gmail for my email as usual.

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