Look meh it’s been too many days without a response from the staff. I am determined and now my next mission is a Christmas list, sponsored by meh and presented by everyone who posts on my comment. Without further ado, I present the meh Christmas shopping list:
IRK Plushies, Mehgic 8 Ball (all responses some form of meh.), Squatty Potty (because we don’t have the fukubukuro anymore and our crap needs to go somewhere), AAA batteries, poop meh emoji pillows, and candy corn because it’s near Halloween duh.
Sold out in 2 minutes? Must’ve only had a hand full of these. My wife just poured a beverage on her Chromebook last week and I’m in the market, too. Just my luck.
@deathbynoodlez Thanks, I’ll look. Tomorrow I’m returning a touch Chromebook purchased on Newegg refurb B stock that has a defective screen. Now I know that B stock means used shit also. It looks abused and dirty.
“my school decided to waste money on these awefull chrome books and
let me tell you that these are such pieces of garbage i would rather
surf the web on a potato”
Who knows? Maybe it’s a blessing it’s a little older: it might mean it was unaffected by the Gmail redesign. That’d be worth the price alone, if you ask us!
Given that the Gmail “app” is actually the Gmail website, I can assure you that it is definitely affected.
Oh even if these come back don’t do it! You can get crappy refurbished chromebooks at the new egg for $80 any day. If you really want one that bad, I have a few spare laptops running Linux, for $150 I’ll happily take half the memory out, replace the hard drive with an SD card with chrome OS, and pee on it.
My 2013 Chromebook took a lickin’ and lasted nearly 4 years. Perfect for traveling and general carelessness.
Sure, Google is greedy with yer data, but it’s a trade-off worth it for many situations. EZ to wipe it and start fresh. The downside is the battery, which will need to be CAREFULLY replaced after a 2-3 years of reasonable use. These cases are not meant to opened, so YMMV. Also, the power connector went wonky after year 3.
Yep. a $150 underpowered notebook IS disposable. And handy. No moving parts, monster graphics card = killer battery life.
Another plus is that eventually more older versions will be able to use Android apps going forward.
It can’t run Android apps without significant slowdown since most Android apps are not built for x86 chipset this thing has, so it’ll just spin and overheat.
It’s too slow and too low memory to run anything other than 6 tabs of Facebook. I’d not even be able to listen to music, run a Google doc, and code python on this thing at the same time.
It’s worse than a computer, it’s nota tablet, it’s worse than a mac. It’s low resolution, it doesn’t go fast, it doesn’t run windows apps
The item linked to at Amazon isn’t the same item. The one below seems a closer match, though not refurbished. The meh! Amazon link only has 2 GB ram, whereas the one selling here, is 4 GB, among some other differences.
ChromeOS is garbage, but most (all?) Chromebooks can be formatted and used to run Linux, or you can dual boot them. Especially as more and more websites cram more and more CRAP into their pages… on top of Chrome being insanely memory hungry to begin with… ChromeOS is falling farther and farther behind of what the concept was meant to be: a fast, lightweight, simple operating system meant mostly for cloud-based simple productivity applications and web surfing.
If you want a portable websurfing computer and you’re not comfortable with removing ChromeOS and installing and using Linux, you’re much better off buying a used/refurbished Windows notebook or buying a tablet. Unless you replace ChromeOS with Linux, there is nothing chromebooks do that Windows notebooks don’t do better.
@mehshark Oh man I totally disagree with you. I love my Chromebook. I’ve used with crouton and not. I prefer not. I use it for everything except for gaming really. The one I have has excellent battery life, runs Android apps, starts up in about 8 seconds, can be wiped and reloaded in about 3 minites, and never really experiences the slowdowns you were speaking of. I’m not saying this HP will be like that, but my Toshiba Chromebook from 2015 definitely is.
@mehshark For this price, you’re not going to find a lightweight window’s laptop or tablet that will run smooth and quiet, stay cool, and have good battery life. I guess you could drop $1000 for a Surface tablet…
@OnionSoup 4GB is nowhere near enough for a Chromebook now because of how memory starved Chrome is. That’s why old ones crash all the time when using modern, content-heavy websites - there’s just too much going on for the OS to handle so the entire thing locks up.
I disagree that Chromebooks are the best choice. Maybe they were once upon a time, before Chrome became such a bloated nightmare of a program. If you could use Firefox on ChromeOS (or any other, similar lightweight browser) instead of being forced to use Chrome, I might have a different opinion.
As it is, though, the best use for a Chromebook is to be repurposed into a Linux book.
@mehshark@OnionSoup@medz@paradigm I use a 4GB ram Chromebook daily in my property management business. It has a cellular modem card which makes it remarkably portable and was a great deal for a refurb over on Woot.
All this talk of “just convert it to Linux” is just so much unicorn poo. Talk to people who actually use a Chromebook before being so contemptuous please.
That’s just the first page of results, without even really doing much work. $270 for a 4th gen i5 with 8GB RAM and a 10 hour battery life on average, and unlike a Chromebook it runs Windows without any trickery required and it can be upgraded without trouble. You could easily purchase an SSD and slap it in together with the HDD later if you really wanted a faster boot time. The screen is low-res, but you aren’t going to get double digit battery life without a low-res screen - the new PixelBook (Google’s flagship) has a lovely display but also craps out in a little under 8 hours under stress testing (typically playing a video on loop at 50% volume and 50% brightness.)
It’s also worth noting that you’re looking at spending $500 or more on a Chromebook if you want 8GB RAM, since most models come with 4GB and Chrome struggles with so little RAM with all the crap that websites cram into their pages these days (chat apps, video, and so much more.)
The Android app compatibility isn’t really that notable because the Android apps have to be specifically ported over to ChromeOS if you want them to work without bugs or glitches, and many apps that are designed for a touch interface don’t work nearly as intuitively with a trackpad or attached mouse. Maybe someone that’s really app-focused will value it higher, but I haven’t found a single app I use frequently that is worth using on my chromebook rather than my phone unless we’re counting Google productivity apps (Snapseed, Docs, Sheets, etc.)
Nah, man… Chromebooks are garbage now. It’s a lot better to spend the extra $100 and get a real computer if you want a budget notebook and I can’t imagine why ANYONE would spend several hundred on a top-of-the-line Chromebook over a high-end Windows or mid-range Mac device unless they were heavily immersed in Google apps.
@mehshark all 3 kids run 4GB HP Chromebooks without any issues and they run very smoothly.
Linux is fine, but it’s not kid friendly or old person friendly… Nor is it just set it and go friendly, even something like Ubuntu. Everything has its niche. If you like Linux, that’s great, you’ll get more out of the hardware that way… But 90% of people can’t handle more than basic windows functionality… For the majority of people Linux is not the answer.
“Chromebook is great for people who don’t understand computers very well.”
I’m a solutions architect for a San Francisco cloud infrastructure startup, specializing in our Kubernetes offering. My work computer runs Fedora Linux (I’ve run some version of Linux as my primary work OS since 2010, two years before I started as a consultant at Red Hat). My personal desktops and laptops have run Linux since Debian Slink.
I use my Meh-sourced 2015 Toshiba Chromebook daily.
@kensey@mehshark not at all. I didn’t say it was only for people who didn’t understand computers well, I said it was great for people that didnt and it is.
@kodojr3 I named my car Verizon Hum device personal hotspot “NSA Roving Surveilance Van #239” I just wish I could hear or see people reaction when they get a WiFi alert while driving or at a stop light only to see tge name and then all the sudden it’s gone.
Warranty is 90 days. Is that from purchase? When it arrives? Or when it is opened if register warranty then.
My youngest has this Chromebook but has damaged the screen and I’m considering replacing it for Xmas. If warranty starts from purchase date that wouldn’t give much warranty. Anyone any idea when warranty officially begins?
@OnionSoup With most of these things, it’s from date of purchase. So, by the time Meh actually packs it up some time after Thanksgiving and ships it to you on the back of snail in a wheelchair, it will finally arrive at your house some time in late April, and your warranty will already have expired. But, YMMV!
@gdibig@OnionSoup Actually most reputable businesses understand shipping delays will backdate up the warrant to the day it arrives with small 30, 60, 90 day warranties.
Took one of these on vacation and was so frustrated with it being incapable of completing the most simple of tasks I vowed to never use it again - and I haven’t.
Copy/paste, 95% of “right-click actions”, simple text highlighting, audio, video, etc, etc - NOTHING in ChromeOS works like it should - at least not on these fucking doorstops. Trying to use Google Maps was BEYOND WORTHLESS - if Google apps can’t run on Google’s own OS what the fuck good is it? Maybe I simply haven’t seen the “right device” but I have no idea how ChromeOS is still a “thing” - much like everything Google post-2008-ish it’s a pig in a pretty dress (that mines your data)
And it’s STILL the same price I paid for it 2 years ago.
My Asus Transformer pad running Android 4.4 runs circles around this turd even with every app being 4 years out of date.
Well, they haven’t fixed the listing, so it bears repeating - the specs of this Chromebook are not the same as the old Chromebook they compare this to on Amazon. This one is the HP Chromebook 14 G5 - this year’s model. Things like USB C ports, LPDDR4, and the N3350 - those are new and shiny features.
Also, I compared a model like this (but with 11" screen) to an upgraded model with the quad-core CPU and 8GB of RAM. I was surprised that for casual use I couldn’t tell the difference. So our schools bought ones like this.
@sligett I would love to buy one for my kids to use at school but they require a laptop, preferably a MacBook, because they are assholes that like spending our money.
@sammydog01@sligett -depending on and regardless of how midterm elections go, there are plans to have ALL kids deported until they turn 26. so buy whatever the eff you want
This is a G5 version of the HP Chromebook 14.
I just picked it up and it is working quite well. It actually has 4GB of RAM. The screen isn’t the best though.
It also runs Android Apps quite well. If this comes up again, it is a great buy. Highly recommended.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x HP Chromebook
1x AC Adapter
Price Comparison
$199 (for refurbished) at Amazon
Warranty
90 Day Image Microsystems
Estimated Delivery
FedEx SmartPost: Monday, October 29th - Friday, November 2nd
Compute this — meh — to chrome or not to chrome that’s the shiny question
You just firefoxed me to death.
Look meh it’s been too many days without a response from the staff. I am determined and now my next mission is a Christmas list, sponsored by meh and presented by everyone who posts on my comment. Without further ado, I present the meh Christmas shopping list:
IRK Plushies, Mehgic 8 Ball (all responses some form of meh.), Squatty Potty (because we don’t have the fukubukuro anymore and our crap needs to go somewhere), AAA batteries, poop meh emoji pillows, and candy corn because it’s near Halloween duh.
@reclaimercube what about an IRK of Irks?
@thejackalope yes please
@reclaimercube please god no more candy corn.
Beep boop
/buy
@kabijj Oops, sorry. We’re sold out.
@kabijj @mediocrebot lmao what???
@mediocrebot wut? Was this a secret IRK?
I look at the daily Meh reveal as the start of my day. I’m always pleased to know my day will only get better.
No touchscreen, eh?
@medz I want one that is touch, 1080, and runs Android apps.
That was fast
Sold out with none sold?
Also, it lacks the one potentially good feature of a Chromebook. The display is 1366x768.
@jandrese Hey! That’s the resolution on my Thinkpad!
@jandrese glad I’m not only one that noticed none were sold, lol
@jandrese @seraphimcaduto
Today (it yesterday since it’s after midnight now) was international skeptics day.
I’m skeptical they even had any for sale… Or perhaps they did and the meh employees bought them before they went on sale.to the public.
I have this Chromebook - I bought it from Woot years ago. Still works fine.
How is this sold out?
Did you have one on hand?
Jeez, did they have like 5 of these or what?
How many were sold in 3 minutes or fewer?
I must have missed the memo that says if a Chromebook is sold for $149 it’s really 30 fuko bags.
Sold out within 5 minutes! Whoa
Sold out in 2 minutes? Must’ve only had a hand full of these. My wife just poured a beverage on her Chromebook last week and I’m in the market, too. Just my luck.
@Kyser_Soze check best buy and Amazon you can find one refurbished for about 149 and new ones sometimes if on sale
@deathbynoodlez Thanks, I’ll look. Tomorrow I’m returning a touch Chromebook purchased on Newegg refurb B stock that has a defective screen. Now I know that B stock means used shit also. It looks abused and dirty.
@Kyser_Soze Stock is fixed, you can come back now if you want this Chromebook.
@Kyser_Soze looks like they are back in stock? How Amazon-ish of them
This has to be wrong - this thing is ancient, it’s not worth $150.
The specs aren’t that great. Must have been three or so…
Do you know what else lives in the cloud, my dreams of more MEH faced pop sockets
@deathbynoodlez EVERYONE NEEDS TO GET BEHIND THIS MAN’S MOVEMENT
@deathbynoodlez @reclaimercube Agreed!
@dave I don’t see where staff has been pinged yet, but it looks like you may have had an inventory issue.
@djslack Might be best to not fix this and put something else up for sale, I think we’re all amazed it sold out but no one really wants to buy it.
https://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-chromebook-14-ca030nr
@username please do…
That was fast
@Aschdrw That’s what she said.
Calm down everybody. They were sold out, just not today. This is more of an “update day.”
/buy 0
@robm Sorry, the
/buycommand is only available to members. Learn more.Did somebody forget to reset the sales clock/inventory at Meh? @Dave
The stats say none have been bought, so it looks like a glitch to me.
DERP
Umm… How many of these were available? It says they sold out by 12:02.
also this is not one of the HP that could support Android apps, it seems
https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-supporting-android-apps
@username https://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-chromebook-14-ca030nr says different
@4771cu5 i feel like google gave up on updating that list. Probably don’t even care since they are working on Fuscia now
@username Still waiting for my Toshiba CB2 (2014) to get it.
Also says none were sold.
Haha
Sold out??? Says none were sold???
ok who else is trying to click around trying to figure out if this is a hidden Fukubukuro, or whatever it’s called now?
Have we just been Banksy-ed?
I can’t wait to read the Oh Shit report on this. Do they ever do those anymore?
Sorry about this, we think we’ve got it fixed, just waiting for the site to update. (ETA 12 minutes from now.)
@dave I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.
@dave nope…
Well, ok, I thought we’d fixed it. Calling in the calvary now. [edit: also, cavalry. typing too fast]
dude, it has been 14 minutes! Somebody remote in and press F5 already…
@dave *cavalry
@djslack Prolly need to go nuclear and press shift f5
@dave /cavalry
@dave @robm how long till the goat of October gets blamed again?
@dave
Uh, oh.
@dave so basically some software developer is having a crappy night right now. Yay prod support!
@dave @yankeesrule I’ve been that guy.
@dave It’s back, yay!
@dave @robm
@reclaimercube The blame is because it’s fixed now.
Oh, well, I did not really want one anyways.
/buy
@rigor Oops, sorry. We’re sold out.
Given that the Gmail “app” is actually the Gmail website, I can assure you that it is definitely affected.
And here I was thinking we had a Meh-raton.
Fake Deals Monday!
FYI, tomorrow’s deal is also sold out.
The one time I’m awake… You sell out before I get a chance…
@OnionSoup just wait, your chance is coming. Dave has called in the Calvary to fix it.
@djslack @OnionSoup
@OnionSoup Your chance has arrived!
@Kerig3
@aetris Well done!
@Kerig3 - Thank you. Although technically, that’s NOT “the Calvary.” And I couldn’t find my Thumperchick pic, so there’s Matthew AND TCM.
And we’ll all have been waiting for more fidget spinners and candy corn.
Is sometime firing up the OHSHIT REPORT template yet? Excited, we haven’t gotten one of those in a while.
Oh even if these come back don’t do it! You can get crappy refurbished chromebooks at the new egg for $80 any day. If you really want one that bad, I have a few spare laptops running Linux, for $150 I’ll happily take half the memory out, replace the hard drive with an SD card with chrome OS, and pee on it.
Ok, @shawn got us all fixed, so we should be good now.
@dave
Meh-igans pissed now. Not gonna buy now. Bye now.
FYI the amazon link is a different, older chromebook (that I happen to own). I believe this is the right one, but in black, for $186 refurbished https://smile.amazon.com/HP-Chromebook-14-ca030nr-Certified-Refurbished/dp/B07GRBVCN6/
I liked this deal better when it was broken.
@RogerWilco
Well, now I don’t want it…
I’d kinda hoped the price was broken but guess not.
For $50.00 dollars more you can get a new crappy one at walmart.
“but wait, Meh, this thing came back out in 2013,” sounds like it was reintroduced in 2013.
Try it this way. “but wait, Meh, this thing came out back in 2013,”
2 are sold
2 are sold
2 are sold…sing to the Jeopardy theme song.
@growyoungagain ha! And I bought both of them. I’m waiting to see if anyone else will be brave.
Well at least I didn’t have to click the Meh button a second time…
1366x768! Hell naw!
I want to create a charity that buys up all the 1366x768 laptops and burns them to save the world from purchasing them.
https://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-chromebook-14-ca030nr
Seems to run Android apps according to HP.
My 2013 Chromebook took a lickin’ and lasted nearly 4 years. Perfect for traveling and general carelessness.
Sure, Google is greedy with yer data, but it’s a trade-off worth it for many situations. EZ to wipe it and start fresh. The downside is the battery, which will need to be CAREFULLY replaced after a 2-3 years of reasonable use. These cases are not meant to opened, so YMMV. Also, the power connector went wonky after year 3.
Yep. a $150 underpowered notebook IS disposable. And handy. No moving parts, monster graphics card = killer battery life.
Another plus is that eventually more older versions will be able to use Android apps going forward.
@kathologist TL;DR… so you’re saying these should have been thrown out rather than “refurbed”.
This isn’t even meh, this is just bad.
It can’t run Android apps without significant slowdown since most Android apps are not built for x86 chipset this thing has, so it’ll just spin and overheat.
It’s too slow and too low memory to run anything other than 6 tabs of Facebook. I’d not even be able to listen to music, run a Google doc, and code python on this thing at the same time.
It’s worse than a computer, it’s nota tablet, it’s worse than a mac. It’s low resolution, it doesn’t go fast, it doesn’t run windows apps
@grassmud You were born after 1980, weren’t you?
@grassmud So did you buy it or not?
The item linked to at Amazon isn’t the same item. The one below seems a closer match, though not refurbished. The meh! Amazon link only has 2 GB ram, whereas the one selling here, is 4 GB, among some other differences.
Amazon link
ChromeOS is garbage, but most (all?) Chromebooks can be formatted and used to run Linux, or you can dual boot them. Especially as more and more websites cram more and more CRAP into their pages… on top of Chrome being insanely memory hungry to begin with… ChromeOS is falling farther and farther behind of what the concept was meant to be: a fast, lightweight, simple operating system meant mostly for cloud-based simple productivity applications and web surfing.
If you want a portable websurfing computer and you’re not comfortable with removing ChromeOS and installing and using Linux, you’re much better off buying a used/refurbished Windows notebook or buying a tablet. Unless you replace ChromeOS with Linux, there is nothing chromebooks do that Windows notebooks don’t do better.
@mehshark Oh man I totally disagree with you. I love my Chromebook. I’ve used with crouton and not. I prefer not. I use it for everything except for gaming really. The one I have has excellent battery life, runs Android apps, starts up in about 8 seconds, can be wiped and reloaded in about 3 minites, and never really experiences the slowdowns you were speaking of. I’m not saying this HP will be like that, but my Toshiba Chromebook from 2015 definitely is.
@mehshark I completely disagree. Chromebook is great for people who don’t understand computers very well.
It’s a great kids homework computer.
It also has advantages over Windows.
Linux has its place. Windows has its place and Chromebook has its place.
For children in school, or people who just want a simple computer that does the basics, for casual users, a Chromebook IS the best choice.
@mehshark For this price, you’re not going to find a lightweight window’s laptop or tablet that will run smooth and quiet, stay cool, and have good battery life. I guess you could drop $1000 for a Surface tablet…
@OnionSoup 4GB is nowhere near enough for a Chromebook now because of how memory starved Chrome is. That’s why old ones crash all the time when using modern, content-heavy websites - there’s just too much going on for the OS to handle so the entire thing locks up.
I disagree that Chromebooks are the best choice. Maybe they were once upon a time, before Chrome became such a bloated nightmare of a program. If you could use Firefox on ChromeOS (or any other, similar lightweight browser) instead of being forced to use Chrome, I might have a different opinion.
As it is, though, the best use for a Chromebook is to be repurposed into a Linux book.
@mehshark @OnionSoup @medz @paradigm I use a 4GB ram Chromebook daily in my property management business. It has a cellular modem card which makes it remarkably portable and was a great deal for a refurb over on Woot.
All this talk of “just convert it to Linux” is just so much unicorn poo. Talk to people who actually use a Chromebook before being so contemptuous please.
/giphy unicorn poo
@medz https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Thinkpad-T440-Ultrabook-Professional/dp/B073WVRDJT
That’s just the first page of results, without even really doing much work. $270 for a 4th gen i5 with 8GB RAM and a 10 hour battery life on average, and unlike a Chromebook it runs Windows without any trickery required and it can be upgraded without trouble. You could easily purchase an SSD and slap it in together with the HDD later if you really wanted a faster boot time. The screen is low-res, but you aren’t going to get double digit battery life without a low-res screen - the new PixelBook (Google’s flagship) has a lovely display but also craps out in a little under 8 hours under stress testing (typically playing a video on loop at 50% volume and 50% brightness.)
It’s also worth noting that you’re looking at spending $500 or more on a Chromebook if you want 8GB RAM, since most models come with 4GB and Chrome struggles with so little RAM with all the crap that websites cram into their pages these days (chat apps, video, and so much more.)
The Android app compatibility isn’t really that notable because the Android apps have to be specifically ported over to ChromeOS if you want them to work without bugs or glitches, and many apps that are designed for a touch interface don’t work nearly as intuitively with a trackpad or attached mouse. Maybe someone that’s really app-focused will value it higher, but I haven’t found a single app I use frequently that is worth using on my chromebook rather than my phone unless we’re counting Google productivity apps (Snapseed, Docs, Sheets, etc.)
Nah, man… Chromebooks are garbage now. It’s a lot better to spend the extra $100 and get a real computer if you want a budget notebook and I can’t imagine why ANYONE would spend several hundred on a top-of-the-line Chromebook over a high-end Windows or mid-range Mac device unless they were heavily immersed in Google apps.
@medz @mehshark TL;DR
@mehshark Chrome OS doesn’t need a lot of RAM. The best you could find is almost twice this price. Good try, though.
@mehshark all 3 kids run 4GB HP Chromebooks without any issues and they run very smoothly.
Linux is fine, but it’s not kid friendly or old person friendly… Nor is it just set it and go friendly, even something like Ubuntu. Everything has its niche. If you like Linux, that’s great, you’ll get more out of the hardware that way… But 90% of people can’t handle more than basic windows functionality… For the majority of people Linux is not the answer.
@mehshark @OnionSoup
“Chromebook is great for people who don’t understand computers very well.”
I’m a solutions architect for a San Francisco cloud infrastructure startup, specializing in our Kubernetes offering. My work computer runs Fedora Linux (I’ve run some version of Linux as my primary work OS since 2010, two years before I started as a consultant at Red Hat). My personal desktops and laptops have run Linux since Debian Slink.
I use my Meh-sourced 2015 Toshiba Chromebook daily.
You were saying…?
@kensey @mehshark not at all. I didn’t say it was only for people who didn’t understand computers well, I said it was great for people that didnt and it is.
I was looking for local wifi when I was out and about. And someone named their wifi. “Tell my wifi I love her”. Awesome!
@kodojr3 That’s right up there with “pretty fly for a wifi”
@kodojr3 I named my car Verizon Hum device personal hotspot “NSA Roving Surveilance Van #239” I just wish I could hear or see people reaction when they get a WiFi alert while driving or at a stop light only to see tge name and then all the sudden it’s gone.
@kodojr3
“FBI Surveillance Van”
Oh good. Back in stock… Question:
Warranty is 90 days. Is that from purchase? When it arrives? Or when it is opened if register warranty then.
My youngest has this Chromebook but has damaged the screen and I’m considering replacing it for Xmas. If warranty starts from purchase date that wouldn’t give much warranty. Anyone any idea when warranty officially begins?
@OnionSoup With most of these things, it’s from date of purchase. So, by the time Meh actually packs it up some time after Thanksgiving and ships it to you on the back of snail in a wheelchair, it will finally arrive at your house some time in late April, and your warranty will already have expired. But, YMMV!
@gdibig @OnionSoup October 22-29 arrival so you should test it before Christmas.
@gdibig @OnionSoup Actually most reputable businesses understand shipping delays will backdate up the warrant to the day it arrives with small 30, 60, 90 day warranties.
@gdibig @NoImNotNSA @OnionSoup
Took one of these on vacation and was so frustrated with it being incapable of completing the most simple of tasks I vowed to never use it again - and I haven’t.
Copy/paste, 95% of “right-click actions”, simple text highlighting, audio, video, etc, etc - NOTHING in ChromeOS works like it should - at least not on these fucking doorstops. Trying to use Google Maps was BEYOND WORTHLESS - if Google apps can’t run on Google’s own OS what the fuck good is it? Maybe I simply haven’t seen the “right device” but I have no idea how ChromeOS is still a “thing” - much like everything Google post-2008-ish it’s a pig in a pretty dress (that mines your data)
And it’s STILL the same price I paid for it 2 years ago.
My Asus Transformer pad running Android 4.4 runs circles around this turd even with every app being 4 years out of date.
HARD pass.
@Pufferfishy The “right-click” is performed by tapping with 2 finger tips.
@medz …or hitting “alt” on my Chromebooks,
which I love.
Well, they haven’t fixed the listing, so it bears repeating - the specs of this Chromebook are not the same as the old Chromebook they compare this to on Amazon. This one is the HP Chromebook 14 G5 - this year’s model. Things like USB C ports, LPDDR4, and the N3350 - those are new and shiny features.
Also, I compared a model like this (but with 11" screen) to an upgraded model with the quad-core CPU and 8GB of RAM. I was surprised that for casual use I couldn’t tell the difference. So our schools bought ones like this.
@sligett I would love to buy one for my kids to use at school but they require a laptop, preferably a MacBook, because they are assholes that like spending our money.
@sammydog01 @sligett -depending on and regardless of how midterm elections go, there are plans to have ALL kids deported until they turn 26. so buy whatever the eff you want
can’t be that old of a model if it has USB type c…
@fastharry USB-C has been around since 2014
@NoImNotNSA been around and being used, esp on low end laptop devices, is two different things…
@NoImNotNSA look at the post above ours…
@fastharry Ayup, not old. https://www.anandtech.com/show/12209/hp-announces-the-latest-chromebook-14-g5-and-chromebook-11-g6
We are all so very privileged, aren’t we?
@radi0j0hn We have first-world problems and we’re proud of it.
This is a G5 version of the HP Chromebook 14.
I just picked it up and it is working quite well. It actually has 4GB of RAM. The screen isn’t the best though.
It also runs Android Apps quite well. If this comes up again, it is a great buy. Highly recommended.
Arrived defective. Even though fully charged, it will not power on unless the power cord is plugged in.
Powerwash fixed the one that would not start. All is well.