Is a $25 Chromebook Worth It?!? (2023)

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Thanks for this video... I want buy chrome secondhand but this video safe me.... Old chrome can't update not support new app.... N price on my country like $75-100...thank... Good buy $100-200 old i3/i5 gen 6-8 laptop can install Linux n windows 10 and can upgrade. Thanks 👍

I don’t know meant, an iPad or android tablet might be a better performer (minus keyboard/mouse) for the simple tasks that chromebooks are designed to do.

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I disagree with, respectfully, about Linux will take a long time to set up. That is simply not true, Linux Distros have come a long way, now we have a lot of distros that are pretty much need minimal set up. All packaged ready to go. It takes me pretty much 20 minutes and maybe less to distro hop, besides with those extra low specs you got there, Linux is a perfect candidate.

I never understood the point of these. They're just worse than a laptop or a PC. I went to Sweden for a school trip once and was so surprised that these things were everywhere. Safe to say that I wasn't very productive when I needed to work on a computer lol.

try to use with Fedora 39 Linux distro and sway desktop environment ... I think will works better !

Please solve the Rubik’s cube

CLEAN THAT NASTY OILED UP FINGERPRINT MAGNET OF A SCREEN

Dude cry to much its dirty the screws won't come out like stfu

Maybe in the year of 1999 it whould be decent

For me i find chromebooks just E-waste. I tried to remove the chromebook Operating system and add a linux distro but didn't work. I refund it bought a cheap laptop. removed windows and installed Linux mint. I don't trust Google for being an operating system.

I think the OS can be updated to at least version 97, I do it on on asus chromebox.cn60

I found one for $40 let’s see if I can get it to run good hahaha

Things a beast compared to the Acer my Mom gave me after she got a new one. 1GB of ram with Vista, Linux saved that thing. Ya get what you pay for, throw something like puppylinux on there and it is gonna be a good time. Also awesome FreeDOS machine I bet.

since the os is from 2019, you could try to play flash games

I bought XPS for 20$

I would want a refund if I got it for free

there was a windows version of the yoga 11e that did have a SATA drive, hence that spacer

I would be extremely worried about what was downloaded onto it, whether hidden virus, malware or other that could retrieve personal information, first thing is I would not worry about cosmetics, did you do a diagnostic check, the history check the dustbin check and virus check, then again for peace of mind a new up to date chrome costs around £125 $175 so that's where I would be, I don't know anyone that has had trouble free experience of 2nd hand computers. But very informative vid.

Have one of these that is also expired. You're better off getting a refurbished Windows Thinkpad and installing ChromeOS Flex.

Yeah, a lot of school chromebooks get periodically replaced so it's a steady supply of obsolete machines. Probably great for any projects you'd use a Raspberry Pi for were form factor isn't a concern. Sadly it's pretty much only a US thing so for everywhere else in the world the shipping cost ruins the deal.

Had you done further research, you'd find out that the plate that looked like a 2.5" bay in fact IS a 2.5" bay albeit with no SATA cable. The Yoga 11e is the Chromebook version of the Thinkpad 11e laptop that came before it, which ran windows (poorly). The internals are almost all the same, except with the full laptop version, there is a 2.5" bay, a RAM slot, and the keyboard has the standard windows layout instead of the Chromebook layout which lacks a Windows key (hence the large CTRL and ALT keys).

Linux works OK on this device, but I haven't been able to find any distro of Linux or drivers that's able to detect the fan, so it will run hot on Linux.

For $25 you can get a much more modern 2nd hand chromebook than that atm. They just don't hold value the moment they hit the 2nd hand market, and they are a totally different beast these days in terms of storage, support and specs. You can't do loads of gaming on them, but you can do proper office work on them and retro game emulation. My last one was an ideapad 5 14ITL6 at $20, which is still currently available to buy new. I'm assuming resellers are flooded with them and getting them sold on quickly is more profitable than hanging onto them for ages to get a better price

There's not much point in buying an old chromebook unless you're going to bios-mod it and install another operating system. Most of that process is automated by scripts you can find online. So if you can follow guides for removing a write protect screw, holding key combinations at startup, and typing commands in a terminal, its doable

A chromebook is not a laptop.

Little spoiled I see. Way way back 1983 , full computer system was 4,800 buck, even by mail , or at radio shack, I waited and waited till circuits city came here, about 2 yr later I seen it at 470 buck fir a slow 70 mhz computer and a tiny worthless 120 mb of HD. Entry computer that still needed a monitor and speaker. So almost 1 k

With Intel powered chromebook. Installing another linux distro is not that hard.
I've done it several times. Bought dirt cheap chromebox. Installed linux and use it for my TV. The other one runs pi-hole.
15 bucks each. As cheap as it gets 😂

thats not a thinkpad since it doesnt have a trackpoint

I like how the Chromebook are all locked and when not supported it becomes e waste

Maybe cleaning the screen might be a good start. You will probably gain a few pixels by cleaning it.

Try raspberry pi os?

probably website/api hosting if you installed linux

Real title: "Is a $25 Chromebook (in a few of the 200+ countries in the world) Worth It?"
Please use the metric system as 200+ countries in the world do.-
Install a real OS.

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Cool video! I think to me this might be useful to play music from an usb stick while I tinker and renovate my old country side house without internet access yet. If I damage it, I would not care. If I loose it I will not care. If I forget it there I would not mind. Basically just a glorified jukebox with an cheap Bluetooth speaker. ^^

That held up pretty good compared to an old Windows laptop (from 2016, for $400- Atom x8350, 4GB of RAM, 128 GB of EMC storage, 1080p touchscreen) I have. Up until recently I used it to print documents as I forgot the printer password. That being said it is totally unusable as of today. The computer takes 10 minutes to boot up, due to flash storage rot and the machine barely works. Last time I turned it on I literally wanted to throw it against the wall. I need to hack the printer on my newer laptop/gaming PC.

Bro it garbage

Google SpyBook. No thank you.

Its likely stolen

Could this be connected to a Rasberry Pi to be used as a monitor?

CB has invaded the schools. You may have hit a service for the community, with linux.

Chromebooks were IMO overly overpriced for what they were and that is why they never took off. For 500-ish you could start getting decent Windows laptops.

For $500 you have had an i5 8GB RAM Acer E15 with 1TB HDD. For $400 you had an ASUS K50 with 4GB of RAM, T6500 and 500GB HDD. For like $350 you had ARM powered Acer Switch 10.

Chromebooks should have been heavily subsidised by Google to help them get the foothold and should had been not more than $200. At that point you'd have a lot of people's first computer be a Chromebook and the ecosystem would take off from that. Instead I remember Chromebooks selling for midrange laptop prices which just made it an object for diehard fans. No company would want them as they were not as easy to manage (back then) as Windows laptops (they were even harder to manage than Macs and that is saying something). No school would want them because of lackluster feature set (and again terrible management). So they ended up being a niche netbooks after netbooks failed.

And 5 year support is laughable. You could get that Acer laptop and still run latest version of Windows 10 on it today. Or you could get one with Linux and run up to day OS on it till the heat death of the universe.

more junk

Wonder how possible it would be to sideload chromeOS flex instead of Linux

That drive cage looking thing must have excited you for a minute. I would have been so disappointed after it did nothing

what you said about installing Linux is just absolutely wrong lol

Why not install Chrome OS Flex - it's supposed to be a generic version for any PC and the spec required seems to be OK for this...