What is the deal with Chromebooks? Why are there so many under $200. Are they only good for surfing the web?
What is the deal with Chromebooks? Why are there so many under $200. Are they only good for surfing the web?
Caleb Torres
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Hunter Adams
Small storage, small computer, small price. Slam GalliumOS on there and you're good to go for college.
I do C++ on mine
Owen James
I've had an Acer C720 now for probably about 3 years, and I use it as a dumb little shit so I can SSH into my school servers and do everything I need.
As previous poster mentioned, GalliumOS is good too, great out of box support for chromebook weirdness.
Henry Roberts
When Chromebooks first launched they were kind of pricey for what they offered but now that google has guaranteed market share, prices started coming down.
Realistically it's because Google saw that their ChromeOS wasn't going to overtake Microsoft in the professional sectors. So they began looking at kids in Elementary, middle, and high schools. Add in the fact that Google offers an entire office suite for free AND free Google Drive storage when you buy the chromebook. Everyone and their mother uses Chromebooks by me now in regards to schools and offices. Hell they even make a software (name is slipping my name at the moment) for the IT/network admin to oversee all the Chromebooks. Since ChromeOS is a fork of Gentoo, security is great.
I bought my little sister a Chromebook for Christmas and my parents a Chromebox as their main PC. WAY better than windows machines for basic use or you can do as said and install GalliumOS (just make sure your model is properly supported). I personally own pic related. Toshiba CB2 2015 model. Bought it for $280 at launch and I extensively use ChromeOS.
Christian Stewart
Are there any ARM Chromebooks out there anymore? I have one but it's several years old and now that I look I only see Intel garbage.
Jaxson Wright
Download Termux on the app store, install nano editor on Termux and you have the best coding machine for $150
Jackson Stewart
none that are really worth it unless you consider the bottom tier Samsung models with Exynos chips in them. I occasionally see Rock Chip models pop up but they're truly bargain bin tier. Sincerely hoping to see Google use AMD chips. I mean hell AMD already made their 35w R7-2700U. I'd pay good money for a 15w Ryzen based APU model chromebook.
Robert Morris
hot damn, it even has a pen
Austin Perez
Would that raise the price? Chromebooks should be on the cheaper side
May also be unnecessarily powerful for its use cases
Zachary Lopez
Proton on ChromeOS when
Christopher Turner
yes and no. It depends on how much AMD charges. For instance I'd be willing to pay $500 for a good Chromebook. Put a $250 Chromebook and a $250 Windows laptop side by side and you'll see from looks alone the build quality on the Chromebook is bar none for their price range. For instance my 2015 Toshiba CB2
>13.3" 1080p IPS panel
>Backlit keyboard
>4GB DDR3
>16GB M.2 SATA Based SSD (replaceable)
>3 cell battery
cost me $280. Nothing windows based even comes close to that. As far as use cases, Google already made Android playstore app compatibility standard for ChromeOS. I can use the Android Photoshop/Lightroom/Premiere program suites as well as games. A little extra oomph in the CPU department wouldn't go wrong.
Ian Jenkins
Are chromebooks required to ship without a bios?
Ethan Flores
ChromeOS is derivative of what, any previous GNU/Linux distro?
Joseph Sullivan
Gentoo actually.
Leo Green
Do any of you had experice with other surface devices.
pros and cons?
Joseph Martin
The surface is stupid for all it's attempted purposes.
>Too powerful for stuff you'd do on a tablet
>Windows makes for a terrible touch OS
>Too weak/not enough thermal capability to do any real work on it
>Way expensive
>Keyboard is shit for prolonged typing compared to even a half way decent laptop
>Keyboard is also made of material that instantly starts degrading if you actively use the keyboard often
If surfaces were cheaper I'd potentially see the appeal, but as it is, they're over priced niche products with no clear use case.
Parker Mitchell
cons
Windows
Surface
Expensive
Stupid
Nolan Mitchell
I'd like one of these, kind of the Casio F-91W or Nokia 3310 of laptops, shoot my cum over it's keys and break the screen with my ass, throw it in the trash and pay a slave wage to some chinese children for a new one.
Which one would suit these purposes the most efficiently?
Charles Gray
I install Debian with some drivers provided by the GalliumOS reddit. Works like a charm for school.
Luke Young
I've been using an Acer CB-11 with GalliumOS and i3. For writing, shitposting, anime, emulators it's perfect. Only gripe is the storage space but an SD card is good enough for general storage. Just a bitch installing some programs if you don't move /home/ to the SD card.
Christopher Green
ironic
Matthew Hill
high hardware failure rate, not recommended
Carson Morris
I only use mine for art. My $150 Acer Windows laptop is more stable despite having a much slower CPU and RAM.
It's so fucking stupid how Microsoft makes a device for their own OS and it's a buggy piece of shit. I have zero issues with my Acer from the get go.
Jace Price
are you joking? on september 11th google is dropping out chromeos70 and every supported chromebook will get linux terminal which means you can install every single app that is on linux without even being in developer mode. if you think chromebooks are unusable you're retard
Ethan Hall
>lainchan sticker
cringe
Dominic Cook
Not him but it's obviously to coverup the giant "CHROME" logo in the corner
Leo Johnson
make sure to check the CPU before you buy it. some of them you can easily format, some you need to open them and remove a screw/jumper to "unlock", and others belong in a landfill.
Gabriel Barnes
I imagine google is pushing manufacturers to unload all their stock for the upcoming release of fuschia
Camden Ross
Currently just using crouton, should I wipe the fucker and install the whole shebang?
Kayden Gonzalez
can,t wait fo rthis
Aiden Davis
shebang? is that the feminist version of crunchbang?