My grand-daughter uses these at school all the time so is more familiar with what they do than I am.  She says that they are great for doing online school work and for playing kid games and YouTube watching.  I do not consider it a full computer but I can read emails, do my banking, check Facebook, Google searches and most non-office type activities.  This is our second Chromebook and I got the convertible style because my grand-daughter wanted to fold the first one back and forth too much along the hinge and we had problems after a year with the screen splitting along the seam.  However, superglue and paper clamps work and the first one is still working after two years, even after we ran over it with the car!I am a Windows Office person for anything serious so this will not get used for anything like that.  But it is light and portable and easy to use for 80 % of what I do these days so I was willing to purchase a second one to replace the first one when it decides to stop working.  Also, I have found out that I will no longer get updates on the first one at the end of 2 1/2 years so decided that it needed replacing.  All of our programs seem to have replicated over to the new one and we are good to go!