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New Wine Chromebook

My Dell laptop is from 2007. It weighs as much as a suitcase jammed with full wine bottles from a Napa Valley vacation. And about the same size. And even though I replaced the battery not too long ago (maybe 7 years), it is just an old system.  Due to the ubiquitous of the smartphone, I rarely use it anymore besides printing or scanning documents. And, sometimes that is necessary. Since the laptop and peripherals are all ancient, with the HP Laser Printer probably being 1995, the Dell laptop 2007, and scanner 2010 (the baby), if I had replaced the laptop, then I would have had to also buy a new printer and scanner. And the question was why? The last time I had to find drivers for the printer it took hours online.     The laptop also has baggage because it was the computer that I mostly wrote my dissertation on back in 2007/2008. At the time, my old desktop was dying, had very old and incompatible software where Temple University was at tech-wise. So, I had to upgrade. It was a matter o