Should You Get 100GB of Free Dropbox Storage on Your Chromebook?
One of the best parts of buying a Chromebook is looking at all the offers that Google provides on top of your purchase. (You know about deals, right?) Admittedly, some of these “perks” are actually enhanced or enhanced trial offers aimed at getting you to connect to a subscription that you might not otherwise have purchased, but this is no reason to refuse Use them while you can.
Case in point: You can now get 100GB of free Dropbox storage for an entire year with any Chromebook purchased before July 23, 2021. Admittedly, I have no idea how far to what this means, most likely your years old Chromebook is too old to participate in this new deal, but Google does not specify this in the terms of the deal, and one click is enough to see if you are eligible, so why not check?
Surely, do you really need Dropbox when Google itself offers you 100GB of storage through its Google One service for the same amount of time? This is your call. Whichever deal you choose, be sure to mark the date on your calendar one month before the end of your annual trial.
Why is this? Because it’s a brilliant marketing ploy to give you free 100GB to fill. For example, if you only store a few files and photos in Dropbox, you may not be as inclined to use ( pay ) for the service after your trial ends. However, fill your Dropbox (or Google One) account with 98GB of files, and you may find that losing access to them is much more difficult than paying for cloud storage.
If you do take advantage of any company offer, you may feel like you have committed to pay for the subscription in advance. And once you get the fatal “Hey, subscribe, or you’ll lose access to everything” email a few days before your trial expires, paying $ 10 a month for uptime is less intimidating. This is how they understand you.
Instead, spending some time looking at what you’ve dumped into your cloud storage a few weeks before your subscription expires will give you plenty of time to take whatever action you need to take. Or, at the very least, you will have time to shop and choose the cloud storage service that works best for you (even if it turns out to be Dropbox or Google).
There are better Chromebook deals than free trials
Of course, you can also ignore any Chromebook suggestion and go for something less tedious. At the time of this posting, Chromebook owners can also get a free copy of Doom II – an old game that used to be released on floppy disks – as well as a free copy of The Fall of the Dark Brotherhood expansion for The Elder Scrolls: Legends Digital Card Game. (Another Fur suggestion.)
But real pearls? You can get a free copy of Stardew Valley , a farming simulator that I don’t even want to know how much time I spent playing. Google also offers a free version of the useful Duet Display app, which lets you use your Chromebook as a second display for your Mac or PC.
I probably wouldn’t use Google’s other offerings – again, mostly trials that want to connect you to a subscription. However, everyone needs storage space, especially if your Chromebook itself isn’t that much. And everyone loves digital farming . Right?