Dora, it does more than surf the net, but it is a cloud user and work is done in the cloud. Eastman mentioned some time back: "Google and Samsung advertise that there are thousands of free apps available today. However, it might not run your favorite genealogy program. Instead, it is limited to online genealogy programs, such as New FamilySearch, WeRelate.org, The Next Generation, PhpGedView, Ancestry.com, Geni.com, WikiTree.com, MyHeritage.com, FamilyTreeExplorer, and a few others. " WikiTree is not bad, I already was there trying it out before I bought the Chromebook. I use the latest version of RootsMagic on my Windows computers. Elaine Does the Little Mermaid wear an algebra? Hello Dora On Thursday, February 21, 2013, you wrote > Elaine, that Chromebook won't do anything BUT surf the internet. > You won't for instance be able to work on your > genealogical databases on it. > Dora