I write a lot.  I always have. The older I get, the more I write.  In my house I have a large room that I have taken over as my "study".  The walls are lined with books and my desk where I work is a combination of surfaces,  one part a real typing desk which I had made for my writing about forty years ago and on the front of it is built in  platform for a keyboard that is the correct height for typing.  I had this made and then added on to the side a platform that is around 10 square feet for stuff that I need while writing...books, articles papers or perhaps Opus, my very old Maine Coon Cat who likes to lie close to me and sleep while I work.Anyway, about sixty years ago I was taught how to type in high school.  That typing class lasted a whole school year and was designed for someone who was going to work in an office, or typing "pool" or be what was then called, an "executive secretary".  I was going to college so I needed to know how to type and I learned how to type in the first quarter of the year (I got an "A"), the polished up what I did not learn that first quarter in the second (I got a "B").  The third and forth quarters were boring. Less about typing and most about how to write form letters and the details of being a secretary, but that was the course that my highschool had and that is what I got.  I won't tell you what grades I got those last two quarters. (and for anyone reading this now that wants to know, I type form letters perfectly and have ended up typing stuff that nice typing teacher-lady never dreamed could be produced with a keyboard. But I digress).Now among other things that I write are a lot of Amazon reviews.  It's a whole lot bigger job than just making some slick one-liner comments about this or that product.  I have found that the manufacturers or sellers of the products you buy on Amazon actually READ the reviews and for the most part, INSTANTLY respond to a review they consider misses something or reflects an error on someone's part....theirs or MINE! So for each item I review I must find a way whenever possible to test it, and certainly handle it, examine it and only then can I write a review that I can feel is fair and accurate.Now my study is upstairs in this house and from where the packages are delivered is  a distance and up the stairs.  This is a pain and I decided I needed a better place to do my Amazon reviews that would make my writing of these reviews more efficient.  I chose the sunroom in the rear of the house where my treadmill is. I set up a work table there  and on that table I can do everything I need to do in writing my reviews.  But my computer is upstairs as is my whole "normal" writing set up...speakers large monitor and printer which I am not interested in schlepping all the way to the sunroom.The obvious answer was some sort of laptop.Now I know NOTHING about laptops but I know my daughter who also is a writer, uses a laptop for a lot of her work and I have no idea how she does it. First of all, there is the small screen on a laptop.  How dose anyone do any REAL work on a small screen like a laptop or tablet?  I have No idea and worry that a whole generation of writers may be going blind squinting into the small screen.  (I even know that some people watch movies on their phones!  Yikes!  IF I surf around on my phone too much, I actually feel my eyeballs being sucked out of my head! But I digresssed again!).So I hunted through about a gazillion laptops to find one that first of all, might work for my writing Amazon reviews. I wanted one that could actually live in the sunroom so when the UPS guy lugged packages to the door I could just take them from there to the sunroom, unpack and get some work done in one motion.  I knew I needed a simple laptop.  I didn't want to spend a lot of time studying processor sizes and speeds and stuff.  I needed just a laptop that would work and connect to the house's wifi so I could just do this simple job.And it couldn't cost a fortune either.  Like not much more than a hundred bucks seemed to be the roof.So I chose the ASUS Chromebook C423NA.  The choice was actually quite simple.  I weaned myself away from Windows a long time ago and never looked back.  I bought a new Asus Chromebox which has been perfect.  I bought a Nexus phone and only then I realized how neat it was to have everything synched and working together.  Now I have a Pixel phone so the C423NA seemed the perfect item.Pretty large screen that doesn't try to extract my eyeballs, clear and clean enough, although around two in the afternoon now, the sun is so bright through my roof windows that the screen is sort of overpowered.  (Blame the sunroof, not the computer!).  The Chromebook is FAST as I expected and jumped onto the wifi without a lot of coaxing.But it's not been exactly a marriage made in heaven.  The problem is not the Asus Chromebook but mine.  The typing class I talked about before?  Well, it was VERY strict and I find the keyboard on the Chromebook something that I have to learn.  I have a rest on the bottom of the keyboard in my study and I tend to wrest the heels of my palms on the rest, which is a trait that I have acquired over the years...not so good, because that means I tend to allow the heels of my palms to hit the touch pad which is pretty big on the Chromebook.  I also find that the space bar on the Chromebook is easy for me to strike with insufficient force to actually work, that leads to a lot of text corrections during the writing process.  And I don't really like the sensitivity of the touch pad and suspect that I need to spend more time just manipulating the Chromebook internally to perhaps reduce the sensitivity of some of its features. The Chromebook to me is VERY fast.For now I have bought a mouse which I seem to use more easily than trying to use the touchpad.  And I know the mis-strikes on the keyboard are a result of my typing on  a table top rather than a computer/keyboard height platform like I am used to.  All of which is correctable either by learning a new technique or by changing typing surfaces and none of which has anything to do with the Asus C423NA!So this Asus Chromebook is fast and does everything I need it to do where I need it to do it.  And I can even carry it with me to write or work somewhere else (although I am not sure I'll ever need to do that.) And the price is perfect for what it is. Better still, it fully integrates with my Chromebox and phone, so nothing will get lost and I can actually work on the same project from different locations if need be.I like it!  Highly recommended!