Amazing if you live in a web browser, battery life is stupid good on that model (16 hours) and if you max it out, it will still give you 7 hours at the absolute minimum.
Its too slow though
MacBook Air is around that battery life
Its awful
Just get a MacBook Air at that point
M4 MacBook Air will kill the game for price and especially in the fan less laptop market
Macbook Air also costs 8x more.
The Chromebook is such a cheap piece of shit you can actually use it as a laptop without worrying about breaking it or scratching it's finish.
It's also not that slow with the latest N100 CPUs, it's faster than most Stinkpads people here worship.
n100 may as well be called celeron or atom. shit processor for shit devices. old thinkpads, latitudes, or probooks will always be better than a device with 4gb of soldered ram
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Who cares about the marketing name, the N100 matches the old i5-8250U, while using 1/6 the power. 4GB is enough for ChromeOS, it uses zram which allows up to 9GB RAM to be allocated with no existing disk swap partition.
Cost isnt a bad thing since it lasts five years or more
Better screen
Better speakers
Better design
Fast chip
Long battery
Best trackpad
The 15 inch MBA is 1900 for 16GB memory and 1 TB,
14 inch MBP with M3 is 2019 for 16 GB memory and 1 TB storage
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
If it's your main computer, sure. But all of those advantages fly out the window if you're using it outside of home, you know, what a laptop is for?
Matte display is better outdoors than a glossy Mac screen
Better speakers still sound bad outside, nobody wants to hear your basketball american music
Better design doesn't matter if you're scared of scratching it
Battery life is pretty much the same
As someone that used a lot of laptops, the trackpad has more input latency on a Mac compared to Windows laptops and Chromebooks
Amazing if you live in a web browser, battery life is stupid good on that model (16 hours) and if you max it out, it will still give you 7 hours at the absolute minimum.
It is decent if you live on chrome. That being said, these machines are able to natively run android apps on the OS, which is a nice feature.
I mostly see these in education with a few in business. Or maybe give it to your grandma idk.
its only worth getting one if you can buy it used/refurbished. I've seen some on my local marketplace for around $100 usd sometimes even less. if you just want a machine to browse the web, check your emails, view PDF documents, or use googles version of Microsoft office then absolutely buy one. i wouldn't spend more than $150 max and that's only if it has upgradable ram and a micro sd card slot
Shame that ChromeOS flex was such a disappointment. If it allowed you to run android apps like on normal Chromebooks then it might had something unique and not be seen as inferior to pretty much every Linux distro.
I love mine, it was cheap as frick 2nd hand, gets around 12h battery when browsing the web, runs Linux apps natively, can also be mr. Cumbox firmware'd and GNU slash Leenux'd.
It's pretty amazing how well chromeOS works, I don't have any other devices with google (phone included) so I just use a burner account.
They're an amazing piece of hardware and if you basically live on chrome and do the absolute minimum on the internet (and need amazing battery life), then you should get one and you seriously won't regret it.
If you don't do the absolute minimum on the internet though I wouldn't recommend it.
>no numpad
instantly trashed
>unironically relying on numpad
ngmi
Grasping at straws
Its too slow though
MacBook Air is around that battery life
Macbook Air also costs 8x more.
The Chromebook is such a cheap piece of shit you can actually use it as a laptop without worrying about breaking it or scratching it's finish.
It's also not that slow with the latest N100 CPUs, it's faster than most Stinkpads people here worship.
n100 may as well be called celeron or atom. shit processor for shit devices. old thinkpads, latitudes, or probooks will always be better than a device with 4gb of soldered ram
Who cares about the marketing name, the N100 matches the old i5-8250U, while using 1/6 the power. 4GB is enough for ChromeOS, it uses zram which allows up to 9GB RAM to be allocated with no existing disk swap partition.
Cost isnt a bad thing since it lasts five years or more
Better screen
Better speakers
Better design
Fast chip
Long battery
Best trackpad
The 15 inch MBA is 1900 for 16GB memory and 1 TB,
14 inch MBP with M3 is 2019 for 16 GB memory and 1 TB storage
If it's your main computer, sure. But all of those advantages fly out the window if you're using it outside of home, you know, what a laptop is for?
Matte display is better outdoors than a glossy Mac screen
Better speakers still sound bad outside, nobody wants to hear your basketball american music
Better design doesn't matter if you're scared of scratching it
Battery life is pretty much the same
As someone that used a lot of laptops, the trackpad has more input latency on a Mac compared to Windows laptops and Chromebooks
>israeli piano keys
good evening Mr. Shekelberg
Amazing if you live in a web browser, battery life is stupid good on that model (16 hours) and if you max it out, it will still give you 7 hours at the absolute minimum.
Its awful
Just get a MacBook Air at that point
M4 MacBook Air will kill the game for price and especially in the fan less laptop market
Can you guys seriously not connect the dots and realize that OP wants a cheap ass but functional enough device? Apple fanboys are something else.
Cheap devices suck
There really isnt a good comparison
It’s not being a fanboy when the only laptop that’s better than the mba is the mbp
they are cool if you are unlock the bios and install gentoo on them
It is decent if you live on chrome. That being said, these machines are able to natively run android apps on the OS, which is a nice feature.
I mostly see these in education with a few in business. Or maybe give it to your grandma idk.
its only worth getting one if you can buy it used/refurbished. I've seen some on my local marketplace for around $100 usd sometimes even less. if you just want a machine to browse the web, check your emails, view PDF documents, or use googles version of Microsoft office then absolutely buy one. i wouldn't spend more than $150 max and that's only if it has upgradable ram and a micro sd card slot
Disposable e-waste for children to use in school.
Shame that ChromeOS flex was such a disappointment. If it allowed you to run android apps like on normal Chromebooks then it might had something unique and not be seen as inferior to pretty much every Linux distro.
How do we get it to where it needs to be? What does Googlel need to hear from us?
>What does Googlel need to hear from us?
Eleven figure returns, probably
for no other reason other than the laptop quality is bad and you get no super key.
I love mine, it was cheap as frick 2nd hand, gets around 12h battery when browsing the web, runs Linux apps natively, can also be mr. Cumbox firmware'd and GNU slash Leenux'd.
It's pretty amazing how well chromeOS works, I don't have any other devices with google (phone included) so I just use a burner account.
cheap toy botnet computers for P-12 students
should be sued by EU for malpractice, need freedom
They're an amazing piece of hardware and if you basically live on chrome and do the absolute minimum on the internet (and need amazing battery life), then you should get one and you seriously won't regret it.
If you don't do the absolute minimum on the internet though I wouldn't recommend it.
I got one early on and the firmware was mega b***hy so I'm not touching them again as long as I can get a PC for the same price (which I can.)
Oh look, a tablet with a physical keyboard, the battery usage of a laptop, and the usefulness of neither.