What's your take on Chromebooks? Are they useful or are they a waste of money compared to similarly priced laptops?

>keyboards are garbage
>no proof of good durability
bait harder
posting from my often dropped and spilled-on T420 with the best keyboard i've used

What I would recommend has nothing to do with whether Lenovo has the best durability on the market, which is a completely unsubstantiated claim. Lenovo is basically a chink cheaptop company that bought the Thinkpad name, they have nothing to do with the old IBM anymore.

>this is shit
>compared to what
>doesn't matter

lmaoing at ur life

>my chinktop is better than quality laptops designed by American engineers
50 cents have been deposited in your account. Now you can leave, chink.

Get the Asus models if you do, best contruction, I use it at my job for entertainment, web, Netflix, comics etc, can run emulators if you want to game, would reccomend.

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trash books, you need at least a 7200u and a ips screen for a decent computing experience, thunderbolt 3 is a plus

man i want to buy a pixelbook so bad but can i even download something in that shit?

I like the idea but I would rather do and also slap a customised Arch instead of buying it.

Sammy Chromebook Pro?

Got the i5/128gb Pixelbook for about $300 after trading in some old, terrible Acer's my parents were throwing away, plus BestBuy student discount, plus the price drop leading up to the last Google summit.

Honestly speaking, it's the best keyboard I've used in a long while that isn't my T420, and that screen is amazing.

but it cant really do anything...

You can just install linux

I installed Linux and literally get everything I normally get done on my Thinkpad.

Depends on what you want to do.

>email, facebook, youtube
They're a goddamn steal, and are far more performant for those users than anything else you'd be able to buy for the same price range.

>dev work, etc
If you're buying the old '15 pixelbooks or some of the refurb old 'high end' junk, they're still pretty damn good, especially considering how easy it is to set up a linux rig. I got a '15 pixelbook for $120 and was using it as my main dev rig with debian for a good three years.

>literally anything else
it's shit. Gaming is awful, image manipulation performance is awful, even some rich online content is incredibly slow.

ChromeOS is godawful if you need anything more than the glorified web browser, but given how a ton of models let you throw whatever linux distro you want on there, it can still be a steal for the performance you can get off them.

I like them. I have a shitty old model, one of the first Chromebooks released, and I like it a lot.
It's top tier as a web browsing/typing machine. The battery lasts forever, it doesn't get hot and its very lightweight.
I also love how affordable they are.

Friendly reminder that experts bring Chromebooks to Defcon for their security. Anything else is just asking for cyber buttsecks

The great thing about Chromebooks is the lack of bloatware. Windows 10 is an abomination of spinning tiles and fucking Xbox adverts, pop-ups, goddamn Cortana in your face etc etc. Chromebooks are just - Chrome. They are very soothing and peaceful to use. Yes, Google harvests your data, but so does Microsoft, and in a far more intrusive way.

when did you buy it? all recent lenovo puters are chink trash

They're useful for web browsing and perhaps programming.
And that's literally it. Unless you use that CROUTON (or whatever it's called) trick to boot a custom distro onto it it's basically a Facebook machine
A chromebook should never have more than 4gb of ram or cost more than $120, if it does you're getting ripped off

More than 4gbs of ram is nice even just for web browsing.

depends on your use case.
unless you're one of those autists who doesn't know how to use bookmarks and has hundreds of tabs open RAM should never be a problem

So if you don't browse in your specific manner it IS useful. So you shouldn't say that none need more than 4gb.

even with hundreds of tabs though there's still not really any reason for more than like 6GB max

6gb is just sort of silly. I'd say 8 is the sweet spot, regardless of chromeos or windows.

Especially for more expensive Chromebooks. Them having 4gb and emmc is insulting.

>more expensive chromebooks
shouldn't even exist

A nice screen, decent build, m series cpu, and 2 in 1 functionality is all relatively expensive.

all of those completely irrelevant to the simple task of checking an email

Says you. You can easily use a Chromebook the same way you would an android tablet as well. Stop assuming everyone wants what you do out of a device.

>android tablet
mate you're kinda hurting your point

How? You can use a Chromebook as a media consumption device as well ala android tablet. You're being ridiculous.

Plenty of people want 2 in 1s with nice screens and especially with Linux app support coming to lots of chromeos devices an m series CPU would be very welcome. As would non shit non emmc storage and more ram.

name the most resource intensive thing you do on an android tablet on a daily basis

I said the m series for Linux apps, even still I bet you would see a difference between it and a garbage celeron on android apps. Especially something like emulators.

at that point why not just get a Windows 2in1 off of Amazon for $300 that rivals a pixelbook

Multiple people ITT have said that 300 dollar chromeos devices beat windows devices. I don't own either, don't currently own a laptop, but its asinine to say the want or need isn't there.

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The first device looks abominable. Dual core Inspiron that without a doubt gets horrid battery life.

Second seems very expensive for what it is.

I've got a coffee-spilled-on T470 (actually went inside of the keyboard)
Still works perfectly fine

No you don't. My laptop has a core m3 and does the job fine. I'm also salivating over the AMD V1000. Laptops based on that SoC when

With an Arm CPU and decent screen very nice, remove all of that Botnet bs and install Linux and you have a good portable Notebook, without Intel and ms shit

Application compatibility is atrocious with arm though. Otherwise I'd agree. Architecturally and economically it makes far more sense on a mobile device especially considering how thin and small laptops can be.

Asus transformer mini t102ha or a chromebook
I can get the first for around 300€, or the second for around 200€
Would use it for a second laptop on the go what do you suggest? I need MS office for uni

You can also just use the free online version of office
Make sure you have at least 4GB RAM on either. It makes the browsing experience much nicer

For some people thats right, in the current state for me most likely as well,
but there are a lot of people just needing basic tasks on the go, for them these devices are are a real option

So is a smart phone or a tablet though.

I got one for university. It was really cheap and the battery lasts for about 13 hours. It's a pretty good Linux machine too.

My current laptop (Sony Vaio SVE15) has literally zero battery life and half the keyboard keys stopped working a year or more ago.

I'm tempted to buy a cheap Chromebook since, apart from MS Word, I am literally just using the Chrome browser for all my internet/Netflix/porn needs. Chromebooks are a bit more expensive in Ireland though, for example it'd cost about €350 for something like the Acer Chromebook 14.

I'm torn between shelling out nearly €1000 for a meh Win10 device (finding a sub-1000 laptop with a good screen and keyboard and battery is surprisingly tough) or just buying a cheap Chromebook and living with the limitations.

I would not spend €1300/1400 on any laptop. Thoughts?

Chromebook and remote in to a desktop for Win10 needs.

You could consider a Xiaomi Air 12. Very portable, good battery life, good screen. I think the keyboard and track pad are acceptable, but I haven't used a lot of laptops. I paid 650CAD for mine. I think Xiaomi puts on sales in September and October, so you may have to wait until then for good prices. They also need Windows reinstalled since they usually ship with a Chinese version.

Hmm... looks very nice, but I'm definitely going to need a 14" or more screen.

How difficult is installing Linux on a CB if you're a basic bitch consumer?

can you download soulseek and music or torrent in general in pixelbooks or other chromeos devices?