Chromebook? Windows 8? Need some advice

Its faster and easier than you think. You don't need processing power and a ton of memory unless you're doing a lot of graphic intensive work. Oh yeah, I use Amazon Cloud player versus Itunes because its superior for streaming music across multiple devices as well.

Look at Itunes Video, I can't even stream that shit on my ipad...how fucking lame is that? I can on my apple TV but not if I'm at a hotel, I have to download whatever I want then play it.

Amazon Video, i have no problem at all streaming on wifi.

 

Exactly. I have thousands of songs and videos; with absolutely zero on my main system

 

Yeah, but I'm physically tied down. Say I take my ipad on the road, I can't watch ANY of the apple content streaming, I have to download it and then watch it.

 

I just watched streaming directv on my phone without a glitch. Don't know what you are talking about. I watch itune videos all the time on my 4g without a glitch either

 

You can only stream Direct TV when you're at home.

You stream Itunes video content? I can't do this. Where, so if you're in a hotel you can play streaming content?

 

Oops I mean it does download but starts pretty quickly. I don't have to wait until it's fully downloaded

 

Nope I just watched adventure time on my iPhone at dinner last night

 

So the answer is no.

 

Yeah, you have to physically download the content to your device. that isn't streaming.

 

Nope just did it right now and it streamed. What are you talking about bro?

 

Playing finding nemo now without a glitch. Hasn't downloaded

 

On itunes? how? I'll have to check that out.

 

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4120493?start=0&tstart=0

 

You're probably streaming it via home sharing. If you shut your compuer off, you won't be able to "stream". That is not streaming, its sharing content on a home network.

 

Also, you cannot go to any computer in the world and stream your content. I can with amazon content. I can stream content from a browser.

I do buy Apple content, but i'm mainly limited to watch it at home or have to download to a device to watch.

 

Directv isn't connected to my home computer. I'm at my sons baseball practice, on 4g and streaming my directv "finding nemo" on stars.

 

weird. That's Direct TV stuff, not Apple though.

what about itunes content?

My main point was that Apple cloud services are pretty remedial.

 

It even warns me that I am using cellar minutes. If I was on another wifi; I would be streaming easily. Also, Netflix works fine too.

 

For me; I use all content just fine and having a 60 gig hard drive is fine to download. There is a feature that allows me to delete after watching the video. I think it works just fine