Mobile apps cater to those on Android and iOS, and there are dedicated desktop clients available to those on Windows and Mac OS X.ġ00GB is a lot of space and while most of us won’t get anywhere near to using it all up before it expires, many of you may start to creep into it as the months pass. Here, you can quickly upload more files, pin your favourites for offline access and so on. On Chromebooks (and boxes and bases) Google Drive is baked into the desktop through the file manager. Documents, photos and other files can be shunted to the cloud to be downloaded or streamed when needed from any device with an active internet connection. With the standard local storage offered by most Chrome OS devices being an anaemic 16GB, the extra cloud space comes in handy. Just be sure to redeem the offer before January 1, 2015.‘Most Chrome OS devices offer an anaemic 16GB of local storage space’

You’ll find them at these retail stores and online outlets or on Google Play. The 1TB comes with the purchase of a new, eligible Chromebook for as little as $199. With that much free storage, you can use your Chromebook for work, play and pretty much everything else you’ll do this holiday season. That’s enough space to keep more than 100,000 awkward holiday sweater pics safe and shareable in Drive. And now, as a bonus for the holiday season, new Chromebook buyers can get 1TB of Google Drive storage for two years - a $240 value - absolutely free. Here's the full post announcing the deal:Ĭhromebooks make day-to-day computing fast, simple and secure, whether you’re searching for a great pumpkin pie recipe or sharing a family photo from Google Drive. That amount of space would usually cost $240.Īccording to Google, 1 TB of data storage gives you enough room to take a selfie twice a day for the next 200 years and still have space left over. For that reason, the free data is a big win. It often indicates a user profile.Ĭhromebooks run Chrome OS, an operating system based on the Chrome web browser. Everything you want to do on your Chromebook, you have to do on the web. So instead of writing something in Microsoft Word and saving to your desktop, you use Google Drive to store your Google Docs, Spreadsheets, Slides etc. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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