The most important difference is one of the keys on the keyboard, or the lack of one I suppose. Upon examination you may notice the lack of a windows button, or it's equivalent on a mac. This is due to the fact that a Chromebook isn't running MacOS or Windows, it runs Google Chrome's OS instead.
While similar, it's differences include a lack of some traditional functionality from the lost button, and most of its functions require Internet access. Chromebooks almost entirely put their storage in the cloud, meaning that most of your files aren't on your computer, but online instead. This frees up a lot of local disk space but without Internet access you can't reach your files.
Chromebooks also lack some of the ports for older cables used in the building to hook up to the projectors and sound systems, so they can't just be swapped out with the other P.C.'s. One of the biggest things that hold it back is that nobody in the building has ever been able to successfully get a Chromebook to connect to a printer, making it impossible to use them to print. But since files are stored in the cloud, you can do your work on a Chromebook and simply print it from a different computer without trouble.
The final big difference is the lack of many standard applications, like Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office, and anything else like that. The Chromebook is almost entirely based around the use of applications made by Google, like Google Docs, which might take some getting used to.
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