@MehnofLaMehncha You may not be. But the Education community is. The low price and long battery life have made them extremely popular. The only thing that you can’t do with them for most classes is print. (You can, but it’s a real pain to set up on a network).
@MehnofLaMehncha these things are great, ive had an Acer C720 for years now, and its the laptop i use most, and being a Computer Science major that should say alot, tons of what people do now is on the internet, and when i need to do stuff online or just browse, its light, cheap, lasts long, and very quick. I do have a gaming desktop i built as well, and tablets and laptops, but most of the time i use the chromebook, which is what im on now.
@regnowsin The other thing about them is they are very hard to screw up, software wise. Chrome OS is remarkable resistant to malware, and if somehow some kid does manage to screw the machine up, all an administrator has to do is hit the “power wash” option and it resets to factory. Easy peasy.
Charted by explorers, who had no idea which peak was the tallest
Two years after the BOG mission, a “computer” realized Chomolungma was the tallest peak in the world
A computer being a human who crunched numbers for a living
So again, given that computers were humans for a few thousand years and have been electronic for around half a century, I still say, probably just a fad.
Maybe Meh knows something about Moore’s Law that we don’t. Maybe the forever-steady pricing of this old, used computer hardware is a forebear of diminishing returns in the physical computing realm.
Maybe this Toshiba Chromebook is the final achievement of computer science and no further improvements will be reached, mankind forever grasping at air trying to make progress into an endless void of entropy.
@spacemanspiff85 , @lichme created an awesome site that archives all the previous meh sales and it’s searchable. It’s called mehstalker and I used that site and did a screenshot then posted it here.
Maybe we just got a bum one, but our kids broke the screen inside of 24 hours. They won’t say how it happened, but that’s never happened with any other cheap laptops they’ve had access to. I certainly wouldn’t trust it to a backpack that gets tossed around.
@mtb002 I take mine cross-country all the time when I fly to work headquarters in SF. It’s gone stuffed in the middle of my checked bag, and as my small carryon item. So far, so good (knock on wood).
@stinks Sure, an Atom computer with 2 GB of ram and a crappy 11" HD display running Windows 10, what a nice idea! it might be even faster than a MAC right?, What a GREAT idea!!,
@stinks Yes I know that they are well really made, and that Lenovo leads the laptops industry, don’t get me wrong on that, what I meant is that the construction, and the propose of this device is really nice, it’s snappy and with really high quality, a really good deal for what it does as it does it good!.
My business partner wants half a dozen of these so we can use them for teaching robotics to 8 to 15 year old kids. We’ve been using Codebender.cc for teaching Arduino programming, and these machines are just fine for that. I bought my one. My son is buying one. My partner will buy one, if he wakes up before they sell out.
Sorry, @thismyusername, @elpepe you won’t be able to buy these at $99, until they stop selling out at $160.
Super tempting because of the incoming Android support, but I feel like a combination of having a touchscreen Ultrabook now AND the Android apps is going to make this thing drive me nuts without it.
@j8erg Despite what some whiners believe, this is a very good price for these, and the supply is quite limited.
There is a way around the only buy one limitation. My wife and I had the foresight to produce children in the 1990s. In 1995, we brought one home from the hospital. It only took about 18 years for him to become a Meh customer. I didn’t realize he was a Meh customer until I saw Meh packages on the porch that weren’t addressed to me.
As a professional esports commentator for the always exciting CFBL (Competitive Flappy Bird League), I am exposed to all manner of top-of-the-line state-of-the-art gaming equipment and boy let me tell you, the Toshiba 13.3" Chromebook 2 is one mean piece of hardware. I can remember just last week at the Second Annual Flappy Bird Grand Series of World Championships four out of the five competitors were using Toshiba 13.3" Chromebook 2s. I’m not saying skill wasn’t a factor but I don’t think I have to tell you which of them went home in the first round, and he had a bye!
If you want to take your competitive gaming to a new level, buy a Toshiba 13.3" Chromebook 2 today! Next thing you know your kill-to-death ratios will be through the roof and your friends will be calling you a gaming god. While you’re at it, pick up a VMP membership, becoming a VMP member is the first step in esports stardom, it’s the best value in high end gaming equipment!
@ralphie I followed these steps to install elementary on one of these purchased here in January. The steps were easy to follow and I’ve had no problems.
I’m still happy with the machine, and if I needed another laptop, I’d consider getting another of these.
As a young mobile hipster I live in the clouds…and that is why I love my Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35-B3340!!! When I need to lookup new ways to sculpt my handlebar mustache I pop open the Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35-B3340 and in mere seconds I am browsing Google images for “cutting edge mustache styles”. When I am sitting around taking pictures of my food with my friends and we need to look up some old-timey drinks, I whip open my Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35-B3340 with its ultra sharp display and 4GB of ram and learn the fastest way to get a case of Switchel delivered!!! And when we are ready to go out drinking I whip open my Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35-B3340 and jump over to Google Maps to find the nearest craft beer bar to get some Doppelganger Doppelbock.
You might say that you don’t understand Chromebooks, and I get that… but for someone as hip and cool as I am… my Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35-B3340 really hits the spot.
Oh and I got VMP because it’s edgy to call the customers mediocre, and I really dig on that.
You won’t regret it - my brother and I bought a Chromebook for pops a couple of Christmases ago and I no longer have to do tech support. Best Christmas gift ever.
@AdmiralDave There’s no real need for anything at all high-powered. You’re not going to be playing the latest Call of Duty or whatever on it. Ryan Bliss is not going to render things on one. It runs a web browser and that is (with limited exceptions) all it needs to do.
I have one of these for ultraportable use (let me tell you, the ability to not have to plug it in for an entire workday or a complete cross-country flight with layover is amazingly liberating) and a real laptop for compiling stuff, editing photos, and other intense things. I use them about half and half. If they crammed an i7 in this it would need twice the weight of battery for half the run time.
@kensey Thanks for the info, but woosh goes the joke over your head. Never used a Chomebook myself but already have a Yoga 11e, which has a Celeron, for my ultraportable computing needs.
I installed GalliumOS on mine which is a pretty new linux distribution created specifically for Chrome devices. Installing it is not for the faint of heart but not rocket science either. All the hardware (touchpad, keyboard, batterylife etc) works great on Gallium and I can now do more things than I could with ChromeOS.
@Dizavid how come my comment got deleted? I thought we sould say whatever on this forum. I guess the guys at MEH must have (pulled a mermaid’s tail) and read at the same time- they’ll have to be more careful next time. I do own this exact chromebook. Pefect size full HD screen, loud sound, 4GB RAM and Intel chipset make it ideal to run Ubuntu via Crouton in addition to ChromeOS. I have minecraft, on the Ubuntu side, for my son to play if he doesn’t have his laptop around. I also have Kodi installed on the Ubuntu side. For $160 you will not find a more versatile device for everyday use that has great battery life. This is a cheap daily user that you can beat the shit out of and not mind it. It’s not an end all replace all, but it’s very versatile for what it can do, and if it gets lost or stolen you’re not out a whole lot of jack (can’t say that about the surface).
@gak0090 I suspect @Thumperchick may have had an objection to one of the words you used… and used again. That or the all-out assault it consisted of was deemed inappropriate.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@jbartus so what’s the point of having a meh discussion forum if I can’t be a completely obnoxious asshole. I’m really good at it. Great- now I feel like I have to go (pet) MY (hippogriff).
I bought one of these new from Amazon earlier this year, and I LOVE it: ultra fast surfing; beautiful screen; streams media flawlessly; sleek design; back-lit keyboard; and HDMI-out. The best Chromebook next to Google’s “Pixel” (which starts at $1000).
I don’t regret buying one of these for for full price. $160 is a friggin’ steal.
I got one last time. Installed Ubuntu on it. Everything works fine but the newest kernel broke my sound (apparently a known issue with these) so I had to go back to an older kernel. Other than that, works great.
Its pros: (relatively) cheap, good screen, reasonably fast for the price. The cons are: terrible keyboard (whose idea was it to remove Del, and PageUp/PageDown keys?), a mousepad without buttons (too common nowadays), installing another OS takes some doing (removing a screw after taking the case apart, then dealing with the OS itself), the ‘harddrive’ is pretty small but that may not be too much of a problem for most people. Finally, it has an annoying ‘feature’ (no doubt thought up by the UX geniuses at Google) that it starts up every time you plug the cord in or open the lid (and no, this cannot be disabled). If you install Linux on it (look at GalliumOS first), make sure you boot it without any flash drives plugged in, otherwise it would try to boot from one of those whether bootable or not. No disabling this either.
I’m holding out for the CB35-C33X0 personally. It’s got a replaceable SSD, so that when I eventually get fed up with ChromeOS I can swap in a 120 GB SSD and install Linux on it.
@jnwc Why get rid of ChromeOS, you can run Linux simultaneously withOUT a performance hit via crouton. You can even switch back and forth without rebooting (3 keys and an arrow). It doesn’t run it in virtual mode. It’s really great to have both, ChromeOS is stupid easy, light and effective for what it does. Linux is great because now you have a real OS for things that ChromeOS can’t do. Most of the time I just use the ChromeOS, but booting into Ubuntu just requires me to open up terminal, type shell, then sudo startunity. After the session is started 3 keys and an arrow allow you to switch back and forth.
@gak0090 That’s a fair point. I’ve touched a Chromebook only a couple of times, and always somebody else’s. I haven’t bought one of my own yet to really muck around with, so I’m just assuming that eventually I’ll say “screw Chrome” and put a “real” OS on there.
Have it. Paid 2x this price for a new one. Still glad I did. Would get it in a heartbeat if I didn’t already have one. I’ve spent more than this on dinners I’ve not enjoyed.
“Turns out it was mostly driven by mass Chromebook purchases by schools.”
Let’s not forget that Apple built its market share by essentially giving devices to schools some years ago. When this was going on I called Cupertino and asked one of their corporate people which engineering software packages would run on their machines so that the students could get some experience with them.
“Uh, I think we have a good drawing program that might do that”.
@Thinkerer Schools wasted so much money on Ipads. But for most classes the Chromebooks really are all that’s needed. No, they don’t do engineering, CAD, or heavy video/photo editing. But you can do research papers, make power points, do testing, and lots of other stuff. And for $225-300 a shot you can buy 2 for the price of most adequate Windows machines.
@regnowsin I’m referring to 90’s era machines at universities which is how they kept any market share at all. The real problem is that we have whole departments that have never learned anything else since and it drives the students to buy them (big surprise).
You’re preaching to the choir with regard to Chromebooks - I’m typing on a HP chromebook refurb I got from Woot (pre-Meh days). It’s what I use for 90% of my daily work.
@Thinkerer They are fantastic little machines, for what they are. And thankfully I missed the big mac push. Although the interim business dean at our local college came in and sold the AS400 mini computer and terminals, and a couple of other things and put in a shiny new Mac lab “because that’s what all businesses use now” right after I graduated. (He didn’t inform the Information Systems department until it was done). From what I heard from friends, those were sold 3 or 4 years later, and had never been powered on. That Interim Dean lasted one semester.
WHY CAN’T I SAY THE WORD PUSSY ON THIS FORUM??? It’s being changed to “pulled a mermaid’s tail” What the fuck is that all about? I could have said cunt, I thought I was being a lot cleaner with the word pussy though. Did they change the rules regarding language? I mean what the fuck?
@mauisean how about I calm my nutsack in your mouth? I’m just asking a simple fucking question. If the shit is all getting censored now, that would be the appropriate response.
@jbartus I’m curious why she hasn’t chimed in if that were the case. Perhaps they are having a (Pegasus pedicure) pandemonium at meh. You know I’m at the point now where I just have to keep running with it.
@gak0090 I haven’t chimed in because I have other shit to do besides babysit you and @Dizavid. It’s not necessarily the word that’s the issue. Since I happen to have a vagina, other terms for it don’t really bother me. It was the context you used the word in that was the issue. I wasn’t even the one who deleted it the first time - that was a staff member. I edited it the following times because the rest of the comment was part of the overall conversation.
It’s not actually free-for-all here, as you mentioned in another comment. There are rules, though they’re applied liberally, with the hope that a group of adults can converse with one another, using their every day language, without needing much oversight.
To be clear - directly insulting or attacking another user is going to be moderated by someone. Whether it’s edited or deleted depends on the content, context, and person moderating it. If you consider that censorship, I understand that. Context is more important than the language. Isn’t that delightfully subjective?
@gak0090 The Internet is not a place for Strong Language. Our Blessed Angels (children) could be Reading these POSTS right now and could learn to use Fowl Language which degrades our Society.
@Thumperchick Dizavid welcomed the comment, it was all meant in good fun. If in the case he were an Apple user (and fortunately he is not) I was truly concerned that he might injure himself while trying to shave his pussy. So in that context, I find my comments being sympathetic. I see your point though, because if I were really concerned I could have mentioned a Brazilian wax as a safer and longer lasting alternative. Perhaps a more solicitous suggestion would be a Brazilian wax with anal bleaching package deal that would be more frugal- what do you think?
Doubt I’ll ever grab one of these because it’s a bit on the large side for what I want in a laptop, but if I did the OS would immediately get wiped for a minimalist Ubuntu install… I assume it scans like any other key, but just to be certain - can that goofy search key be remapped to ctrl? Not having ctrl over there would be… painful.
@gak0090 So, ‘yes.’ Thanks, good to know, though I’m thinking I may just get an 11″ HP Stream and be done with it. Smaller, potentially cheaper, and pinker.
Something I want to point out about this Chromebook, it has an N-series Celeron (N2840), which means it is based on an Atom achitecture (this one is Bay Trail-M specifically) and is not based on the Core achitectures like the non-N-series Celerons and Pentiums are (ex. Celeron 2955U in the Toshiba CB30 is Haswell based). Trust me, even just for light web surfing, these N-series Celerons and Pentiums (or “Atom chips in disguise”) are still way under powered. I love Chromebooks, but you will have a dramatically better experience with one that has both a Core-series architecture (Skylake, Haswell, etc…) with 4 GB of RAM. Anything less will be sluggish as hell. I haven’t had great experience with the ARM based Chromebooks either.
Toshiba does sell a version of the Chromebook 2 with either a Celeron 3215U or an i3-5015U, and both of those work great, but the model sold here today is not that one…
@XadRav You’re completely right with regards to the N2840 not being very powerful, but I have this Chromebook, and even pushing a full HD display it does pretty well (especially considering the price point). Ubuntu doesn’t flow as quick, but my kid says that playing minecraft on it is fine, and Kodi streams well. I agree- most definitely stay away from the ARM powered Chromebooks. I would never suggest using this processor in a windows pc, but ChromeOS is a lot lighter. I also have the Acer Chromebook 15 CB5-571-C09S, the 3205U is definitely snappier, but the N2840 is still definitely usable.
@XadRav . I have this Chromebook. The processor really doesnt make much of a difference. I can open 15-20 tabs with no issue. I can steam HD video. It does everything I need it to. You need a fast processor for a windows machine, this is just fine for a chromebook.
It is possible to buy a dozen of these, just by marketing for Meh really hard.
My business partner/boss lives in a cohousing community. There are a bunch of comparatively small houses with tiny yards, a huge shared common house and lots of shared land. This means everyone knows their neighbors.
My boss had a bunch of his neighbors get Meh accounts and buy a Chromebook. He is trying to get enough for 2 classes of 10 Chromebooks each. He texted me that we are more than half way there.
It will be interesting to see how many of his neighbors become long term Meh customers.
@snapster has said in the past they won’t penalize multiple accounts per address, but I just want any new staff members to know that if they see a dozen orders that only differ by name and unit number, those really are all real people, except for the ones that end “LLC”. He has a corporate credit card for each of his business entities. He used those to buy Chromebooks too.
Damn, missed it again! To those who say it should be $99: the first rule of selling is YOU DON’T REDUCE THE PRICE WHEN THEY SELL OUT AT THE PRICE YOU SET!!! By definition, it is worth what someone will pay for it.
Hoping this one isn’t broken like the last one I bought from woot. It already had an rma# on the box when it arrived. I opened it and it had a broken keyboard both visibly and functionally
You are liars.
I bought a laptop which has specified 4Gb of RAM. Actually it 2GB…
The biggest problem that I can’t even contact the service center of Toshiba. Because I’m from Russia. Even the shipping cost me so many nerves and money.
I am very upset. Very disappointed.
@Veter9 hey, looks like you posted this in another thread, too. You should definitely contact meh.com/support and let them know the product you received was not what you ordered.
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Estimated Delivery: 6/13 - 6/15
Shipping: $5 or free with VMP
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1x Toshiba Chromebook 2
1x AC power adapter
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What part of $99 do you not understand, Meh? Is it the 99 part?
@elpepe I would go $125…maybe…
@elpepe they sell out every. Single. Time. at 160. What part of basic economics do you not understand?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
AGAIN!?!
Deal doesn’t compute
@AttyVette Computers do not use contractions
@AttyVette It computes… IN THE CLOUD!!1!
Still not sold on these so-called computers. Nothing but a fad, will never catch on.
@MehnofLaMehncha http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/19/11711714/chromebooks-outsold-macs-us-idc-figures
@MehnofLaMehncha You may not be. But the Education community is. The low price and long battery life have made them extremely popular. The only thing that you can’t do with them for most classes is print. (You can, but it’s a real pain to set up on a network).
I agree @MehnofLaMehncha! Let’s keep rocking our abaci!
@regnowsin It’s not hard, if you’re running a print server.
@sligett Thanks. I haven’t tried in a while. I’ll give it another spin this summer.
@regnowsin I use CUPS on Linux. It supports Apple AirPrint for iOS, as well as Mac, Windows, and Chrome clients.
@MehnofLaMehncha these things are great, ive had an Acer C720 for years now, and its the laptop i use most, and being a Computer Science major that should say alot, tons of what people do now is on the internet, and when i need to do stuff online or just browse, its light, cheap, lasts long, and very quick. I do have a gaming desktop i built as well, and tablets and laptops, but most of the time i use the chromebook, which is what im on now.
@sligett Awesome. I’ll look into that while I’m waiting for all my classrooms to be put back together.
@regnowsin The other thing about them is they are very hard to screw up, software wise. Chrome OS is remarkable resistant to malware, and if somehow some kid does manage to screw the machine up, all an administrator has to do is hit the “power wash” option and it resets to factory. Easy peasy.
@thismyusername
You realize I said “computers” and not chrome books. Obviously sarcasm pointing at computers as a whole
@thismyusername
Did you know, a computer discovered Mt Everest?
Charted by explorers, who had no idea which peak was the tallest
Two years after the BOG mission, a “computer” realized Chomolungma was the tallest peak in the world
A computer being a human who crunched numbers for a living
So again, given that computers were humans for a few thousand years and have been electronic for around half a century, I still say, probably just a fad.
Maybe Meh knows something about Moore’s Law that we don’t. Maybe the forever-steady pricing of this old, used computer hardware is a forebear of diminishing returns in the physical computing realm.
Maybe this Toshiba Chromebook is the final achievement of computer science and no further improvements will be reached, mankind forever grasping at air trying to make progress into an endless void of entropy.
@elpepe https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601441/moores-law-is-dead-now-what/
Here are all the previous sales of a Toshiba Chromebook:
@cengland0 Next time it’ll be $170…
@eeterrific these things are only appreciating in value.
@cengland0 just reMeh.mber, if you have an old laptop laying around, you can get a free download and install of the ChromeBook OS (or close enough)
@DMlivezey I would do that if I had an old laptop laying around that had 4gb or better RAM, a 9 hour battery life, and a 1080P screen.
@cengland0 That one facing left is a bargain, though.
@El_Oel That was the special left-hand edition. The one being sold today is for right-handed people.
@cengland0 how did you compile this?
@spacemanspiff85 , @lichme created an awesome site that archives all the previous meh sales and it’s searchable. It’s called mehstalker and I used that site and did a screenshot then posted it here.
One day, Meh is going shock the world and actually have the 2015 Toshiba for sale…
@madmaxmedia But in 2030, everyone will wonder what “Toshiba” is.
I don’t think this is one that Google said was gonna be able to run Android apps…is it?
@eeterrific According to Google, they’re supporting both models.
I’d want a touchscreen then if I planned to run Android apps on it.
i’m working (that’s a loose term) on one write now - thy screem is most awesome ma’ lady (yea, whatever)
@DMlivezey Thy mother (now that is a loose term) sayeth thine Olde English nae be so gooder.
I know I sound like a…
but mehbe at $99…
@thismyusername
/giphy broken record
Bought one for my stepdaughter for her birthday last time they were up and she loves it. So much so that now my stepson just ordered one also.
This is one of my favorite Chromebooks. The Dell and the HP are pretty close runners too. For most folks, it’s all the computer they need.
Jumping on the $99 train. Hell, even charge me shipping as a VMP member, I don’t care.
$104 or bust.
Maybe we just got a bum one, but our kids broke the screen inside of 24 hours. They won’t say how it happened, but that’s never happened with any other cheap laptops they’ve had access to. I certainly wouldn’t trust it to a backpack that gets tossed around.
@mtb002 I take mine cross-country all the time when I fly to work headquarters in SF. It’s gone stuffed in the middle of my checked bag, and as my small carryon item. So far, so good (knock on wood).
To be honest, 160 USD is a big deal, this is a really good chromebook, top of the line, believe me, so please, STOP CRYING and BUY IT!!
@armambos I can get a Lenovo 100S with Windows 10 for less, and it’ll let me work without an internet connection.
Mehpants.
@stinks Sure, an Atom computer with 2 GB of ram and a crappy 11" HD display running Windows 10, what a nice idea! it might be even faster than a MAC right?, What a GREAT idea!!,
MEH!!!
Here the specs of Lenovo 100s.
@armambos I’ve got one. Pretty well made, and heck, I run Visual Studio on it and do some console app dev on it.
Guess I just don’t buy into Chrome OS. Can’t say you’ve done much to convince me otherwise. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Nice all caps Mac though. I see what you did there.
@stinks Yes I know that they are well really made, and that Lenovo leads the laptops industry, don’t get me wrong on that, what I meant is that the construction, and the propose of this device is really nice, it’s snappy and with really high quality, a really good deal for what it does as it does it good!.
I’m super happy with mine. The screen is outstanding
Came to say the same thing.
@jorlyfish Yep!
My business partner wants half a dozen of these so we can use them for teaching robotics to 8 to 15 year old kids. We’ve been using Codebender.cc for teaching Arduino programming, and these machines are just fine for that. I bought my one. My son is buying one. My partner will buy one, if he wakes up before they sell out.
Sorry, @thismyusername, @elpepe you won’t be able to buy these at $99, until they stop selling out at $160.
@hamjudo you don’t understand meh at all do you?
Super tempting because of the incoming Android support, but I feel like a combination of having a touchscreen Ultrabook now AND the Android apps is going to make this thing drive me nuts without it.
Why can’t I buy 2?!
@j8erg @moose is it on purpose?
@j8erg Despite what some whiners believe, this is a very good price for these, and the supply is quite limited.
There is a way around the only buy one limitation. My wife and I had the foresight to produce children in the 1990s. In 1995, we brought one home from the hospital. It only took about 18 years for him to become a Meh customer. I didn’t realize he was a Meh customer until I saw Meh packages on the porch that weren’t addressed to me.
@j8berg @thismyusername: everything that @hamjudo just said.
@j8erg ok so basically make another account… they are going to extremes to get that extra $5 out of ya…
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As a professional esports commentator for the always exciting CFBL (Competitive Flappy Bird League), I am exposed to all manner of top-of-the-line state-of-the-art gaming equipment and boy let me tell you, the Toshiba 13.3" Chromebook 2 is one mean piece of hardware. I can remember just last week at the Second Annual Flappy Bird Grand Series of World Championships four out of the five competitors were using Toshiba 13.3" Chromebook 2s. I’m not saying skill wasn’t a factor but I don’t think I have to tell you which of them went home in the first round, and he had a bye!
If you want to take your competitive gaming to a new level, buy a Toshiba 13.3" Chromebook 2 today! Next thing you know your kill-to-death ratios will be through the roof and your friends will be calling you a gaming god. While you’re at it, pick up a VMP membership, becoming a VMP member is the first step in esports stardom, it’s the best value in high end gaming equipment!
@SHillman yea… I own a chromebook and it’s pretty bad ass. The kids fools.
Found a handy little guide on how to install Linux on this Toshiba Chromebook 2.
http://www.fascinatingcaptain.com/howto/install-ubuntu-on-the-toshiba-chromebook-2-in-5-steps/
Now it’s easy to replace the shortcomings inherit in ChromeOS with those inherit in Linux!
@ralphie I followed these steps to install elementary on one of these purchased here in January. The steps were easy to follow and I’ve had no problems.
I’m still happy with the machine, and if I needed another laptop, I’d consider getting another of these.
@ralphie appreciate it.
*inherent
@formshaper oops
As a young mobile hipster I live in the clouds…and that is why I love my Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35-B3340!!! When I need to lookup new ways to sculpt my handlebar mustache I pop open the Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35-B3340 and in mere seconds I am browsing Google images for “cutting edge mustache styles”. When I am sitting around taking pictures of my food with my friends and we need to look up some old-timey drinks, I whip open my Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35-B3340 with its ultra sharp display and 4GB of ram and learn the fastest way to get a case of Switchel delivered!!! And when we are ready to go out drinking I whip open my Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35-B3340 and jump over to Google Maps to find the nearest craft beer bar to get some Doppelganger Doppelbock.
You might say that you don’t understand Chromebooks, and I get that… but for someone as hip and cool as I am… my Toshiba Chromebook 2 CB35-B3340 really hits the spot.
Oh and I got VMP because it’s edgy to call the customers mediocre, and I really dig on that.
@cshillaber
+10 Points for edgy
@cshillaber if you say you are a hipster, you are not
I love mine. The screen is great & the battery lasts for many hours. I don’t regret it at all.
In for 1 for my dad.
@mamawoot
You won’t regret it - my brother and I bought a Chromebook for pops a couple of Christmases ago and I no longer have to do tech support. Best Christmas gift ever.
Had me at Toshiba. Lost me at chromebook.
@JT954 It had me at Skullcandy and lost me at Celeron.
@AdmiralDave There’s no real need for anything at all high-powered. You’re not going to be playing the latest Call of Duty or whatever on it. Ryan Bliss is not going to render things on one. It runs a web browser and that is (with limited exceptions) all it needs to do.
I have one of these for ultraportable use (let me tell you, the ability to not have to plug it in for an entire workday or a complete cross-country flight with layover is amazingly liberating) and a real laptop for compiling stuff, editing photos, and other intense things. I use them about half and half. If they crammed an i7 in this it would need twice the weight of battery for half the run time.
@kensey Thanks for the info, but woosh goes the joke over your head. Never used a Chomebook myself but already have a Yoga 11e, which has a Celeron, for my ultraportable computing needs.
i am still waiting for meh to sell a laptop that will play dota 2 even at low settings but until then
@sp3ar They had that. It’s called the Microsoft Surface Pro 2. I use mine almost every day.
I hate you, Toshiba.
Bought one for my granddaughter last time. She no longer speaks to me. Brat
@Bkmack Get Hangouts. She’ll text you from it.
@djslack doubtful but nothing ventured
I installed GalliumOS on mine which is a pretty new linux distribution created specifically for Chrome devices. Installing it is not for the faint of heart but not rocket science either. All the hardware (touchpad, keyboard, batterylife etc) works great on Gallium and I can now do more things than I could with ChromeOS.
@pm314 Neat. A distro just for Chrome devices is news to me.
@pm314 thanks for the info. I’ve been debating about doing that with one of mine, but didn’t have luck with Chromium.
Still a terrible product. Still overpriced. Still MEH as fuck.
@Dizavid …why don’t you tell us what you REALLY think.
@AwRy108 @gak0090 he’s a troll just ignore him.
@gak0090 There we go! That is the kind of fire I like to see!
But no, fuck Apple. I have a Surface, three regular computers, two Android phones, one Android tablet.
@Dizavid how come my comment got deleted? I thought we sould say whatever on this forum. I guess the guys at MEH must have (pulled a mermaid’s tail) and read at the same time- they’ll have to be more careful next time. I do own this exact chromebook. Pefect size full HD screen, loud sound, 4GB RAM and Intel chipset make it ideal to run Ubuntu via Crouton in addition to ChromeOS. I have minecraft, on the Ubuntu side, for my son to play if he doesn’t have his laptop around. I also have Kodi installed on the Ubuntu side. For $160 you will not find a more versatile device for everyday use that has great battery life. This is a cheap daily user that you can beat the shit out of and not mind it. It’s not an end all replace all, but it’s very versatile for what it can do, and if it gets lost or stolen you’re not out a whole lot of jack (can’t say that about the surface).
@Dizavid I’m betting you have never touched one. Or if you did it was for 5 minutes and you were already determined to hate it.
@gak0090 I suspect @Thumperchick may have had an objection to one of the words you used… and used again. That or the all-out assault it consisted of was deemed inappropriate.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@jbartus so what’s the point of having a meh discussion forum if I can’t be a completely obnoxious asshole. I’m really good at it. Great- now I feel like I have to go (pet) MY (hippogriff).
I bought one of these new from Amazon earlier this year, and I LOVE it: ultra fast surfing; beautiful screen; streams media flawlessly; sleek design; back-lit keyboard; and HDMI-out. The best Chromebook next to Google’s “Pixel” (which starts at $1000).
I don’t regret buying one of these for for full price. $160 is a friggin’ steal.
I got one last time. Installed Ubuntu on it. Everything works fine but the newest kernel broke my sound (apparently a known issue with these) so I had to go back to an older kernel. Other than that, works great.
Its pros: (relatively) cheap, good screen, reasonably fast for the price. The cons are: terrible keyboard (whose idea was it to remove Del, and PageUp/PageDown keys?), a mousepad without buttons (too common nowadays), installing another OS takes some doing (removing a screw after taking the case apart, then dealing with the OS itself), the ‘harddrive’ is pretty small but that may not be too much of a problem for most people. Finally, it has an annoying ‘feature’ (no doubt thought up by the UX geniuses at Google) that it starts up every time you plug the cord in or open the lid (and no, this cannot be disabled). If you install Linux on it (look at GalliumOS first), make sure you boot it without any flash drives plugged in, otherwise it would try to boot from one of those whether bootable or not. No disabling this either.
@qmirage Terrible keyboard strictly in the layout sense, or terrible to type on as well?
@brhfl layout, mostly; typing is not superb but not totally awful, either.
@qmirage A glowing review! thanks
I’m holding out for the CB35-C33X0 personally. It’s got a replaceable SSD, so that when I eventually get fed up with ChromeOS I can swap in a 120 GB SSD and install Linux on it.
@jnwc Why get rid of ChromeOS, you can run Linux simultaneously withOUT a performance hit via crouton. You can even switch back and forth without rebooting (3 keys and an arrow). It doesn’t run it in virtual mode. It’s really great to have both, ChromeOS is stupid easy, light and effective for what it does. Linux is great because now you have a real OS for things that ChromeOS can’t do. Most of the time I just use the ChromeOS, but booting into Ubuntu just requires me to open up terminal, type shell, then sudo startunity. After the session is started 3 keys and an arrow allow you to switch back and forth.
@gak0090 That’s a fair point. I’ve touched a Chromebook only a couple of times, and always somebody else’s. I haven’t bought one of my own yet to really muck around with, so I’m just assuming that eventually I’ll say “screw Chrome” and put a “real” OS on there.
Have it. Paid 2x this price for a new one. Still glad I did. Would get it in a heartbeat if I didn’t already have one. I’ve spent more than this on dinners I’ve not enjoyed.
No brainer for anyone seeking a chromebook.
“Turns out it was mostly driven by mass Chromebook purchases by schools.”
Let’s not forget that Apple built its market share by essentially giving devices to schools some years ago. When this was going on I called Cupertino and asked one of their corporate people which engineering software packages would run on their machines so that the students could get some experience with them.
“Uh, I think we have a good drawing program that might do that”.
@Thinkerer Schools wasted so much money on Ipads. But for most classes the Chromebooks really are all that’s needed. No, they don’t do engineering, CAD, or heavy video/photo editing. But you can do research papers, make power points, do testing, and lots of other stuff. And for $225-300 a shot you can buy 2 for the price of most adequate Windows machines.
@regnowsin I’m referring to 90’s era machines at universities which is how they kept any market share at all. The real problem is that we have whole departments that have never learned anything else since and it drives the students to buy them (big surprise).
You’re preaching to the choir with regard to Chromebooks - I’m typing on a HP chromebook refurb I got from Woot (pre-Meh days). It’s what I use for 90% of my daily work.
@Thinkerer They are fantastic little machines, for what they are. And thankfully I missed the big mac push. Although the interim business dean at our local college came in and sold the AS400 mini computer and terminals, and a couple of other things and put in a shiny new Mac lab “because that’s what all businesses use now” right after I graduated. (He didn’t inform the Information Systems department until it was done). From what I heard from friends, those were sold 3 or 4 years later, and had never been powered on. That Interim Dean lasted one semester.
@regnowsin what era was this? o.o
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I did the deed! Now I get the Toshiba booty! [1]:
For anyone in the “this ain’t no real 'puter. It’s just a fake” that wants to actually open their brain - http://gizmodo.com/why-i-bought-a-chromebook-instead-of-a-mac-1778403065
I just wish it was not such a pain in the arse to print, otherwise they are great…
@regnowsin I use mine all the time while my 2 other “real 'puters” gather dust. (I do miss the delete key though, I make a lot of mistakes)!
How many web browser tabs can you have open at one time?
@kmasserant I’ve had about 10-15.
@kmasserant I have had about 20 before it bogs down and that is with a 2 gig Acer Chromebook.
So. Tiny.
@LordFluffy HEY! Oh. Wait. you meant the computer.
WHY CAN’T I SAY THE WORD PUSSY ON THIS FORUM??? It’s being changed to “pulled a mermaid’s tail” What the fuck is that all about? I could have said cunt, I thought I was being a lot cleaner with the word pussy though. Did they change the rules regarding language? I mean what the fuck?
@gak0090 calm yo tits
@mauisean how about I calm my nutsack in your mouth? I’m just asking a simple fucking question. If the shit is all getting censored now, that would be the appropriate response.
@gak0090 perhaps @Thumperchick can provide insight
@jbartus I’m curious why she hasn’t chimed in if that were the case. Perhaps they are having a (Pegasus pedicure) pandemonium at meh. You know I’m at the point now where I just have to keep running with it.
@gak0090 I haven’t chimed in because I have other shit to do besides babysit you and @Dizavid. It’s not necessarily the word that’s the issue. Since I happen to have a vagina, other terms for it don’t really bother me. It was the context you used the word in that was the issue. I wasn’t even the one who deleted it the first time - that was a staff member. I edited it the following times because the rest of the comment was part of the overall conversation.
It’s not actually free-for-all here, as you mentioned in another comment. There are rules, though they’re applied liberally, with the hope that a group of adults can converse with one another, using their every day language, without needing much oversight.
To be clear - directly insulting or attacking another user is going to be moderated by someone. Whether it’s edited or deleted depends on the content, context, and person moderating it. If you consider that censorship, I understand that. Context is more important than the language. Isn’t that delightfully subjective?
@gak0090 The Internet is not a place for Strong Language. Our Blessed Angels (children) could be Reading these POSTS right now and could learn to use Fowl Language which degrades our Society.
@Thumperchick Dizavid welcomed the comment, it was all meant in good fun. If in the case he were an Apple user (and fortunately he is not) I was truly concerned that he might injure himself while trying to shave his pussy. So in that context, I find my comments being sympathetic. I see your point though, because if I were really concerned I could have mentioned a Brazilian wax as a safer and longer lasting alternative. Perhaps a more solicitous suggestion would be a Brazilian wax with anal bleaching package deal that would be more frugal- what do you think?
@PoopFeast420
This is just PLAIN FOWL!!!
@gak0090 maybe concern yourself a bit less with the genital and anal hygiene of other users.
/giphy eww
@Thumperchick why would I do that? I must have hit a nerve, you just don’t like the word pussy.
@gak0090 Idk. That fowl looks fancy to me.
Doubt I’ll ever grab one of these because it’s a bit on the large side for what I want in a laptop, but if I did the OS would immediately get wiped for a minimalist Ubuntu install… I assume it scans like any other key, but just to be certain - can that goofy search key be remapped to ctrl? Not having ctrl over there would be… painful.
@brhfl http://askubuntu.com/questions/279822/chromebook-map-search-key-to-ctrl-ubuntu
@gak0090 So, ‘yes.’ Thanks, good to know, though I’m thinking I may just get an 11″ HP Stream and be done with it. Smaller, potentially cheaper, and pinker.
Something I want to point out about this Chromebook, it has an N-series Celeron (N2840), which means it is based on an Atom achitecture (this one is Bay Trail-M specifically) and is not based on the Core achitectures like the non-N-series Celerons and Pentiums are (ex. Celeron 2955U in the Toshiba CB30 is Haswell based). Trust me, even just for light web surfing, these N-series Celerons and Pentiums (or “Atom chips in disguise”) are still way under powered. I love Chromebooks, but you will have a dramatically better experience with one that has both a Core-series architecture (Skylake, Haswell, etc…) with 4 GB of RAM. Anything less will be sluggish as hell. I haven’t had great experience with the ARM based Chromebooks either.
Toshiba does sell a version of the Chromebook 2 with either a Celeron 3215U or an i3-5015U, and both of those work great, but the model sold here today is not that one…
@XadRav You’re completely right with regards to the N2840 not being very powerful, but I have this Chromebook, and even pushing a full HD display it does pretty well (especially considering the price point). Ubuntu doesn’t flow as quick, but my kid says that playing minecraft on it is fine, and Kodi streams well. I agree- most definitely stay away from the ARM powered Chromebooks. I would never suggest using this processor in a windows pc, but ChromeOS is a lot lighter. I also have the Acer Chromebook 15 CB5-571-C09S, the 3205U is definitely snappier, but the N2840 is still definitely usable.
@XadRav . I have this Chromebook. The processor really doesnt make much of a difference. I can open 15-20 tabs with no issue. I can steam HD video. It does everything I need it to. You need a fast processor for a windows machine, this is just fine for a chromebook.
@gak0090 How does your kid play Minecraft on this ?
@gdog2009 http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/2014/03/how-to-install-ubuntu-and-minecraft-on.html
@gdog2009 basically you install Ubuntu first via crouton, then you install the Linux version of Minecraft when you’re in Ubuntu
It is possible to buy a dozen of these, just by marketing for Meh really hard.
My business partner/boss lives in a cohousing community. There are a bunch of comparatively small houses with tiny yards, a huge shared common house and lots of shared land. This means everyone knows their neighbors.
My boss had a bunch of his neighbors get Meh accounts and buy a Chromebook. He is trying to get enough for 2 classes of 10 Chromebooks each. He texted me that we are more than half way there.
It will be interesting to see how many of his neighbors become long term Meh customers.
@snapster has said in the past they won’t penalize multiple accounts per address, but I just want any new staff members to know that if they see a dozen orders that only differ by name and unit number, those really are all real people, except for the ones that end “LLC”. He has a corporate credit card for each of his business entities. He used those to buy Chromebooks too.
Damn, missed it again! To those who say it should be $99: the first rule of selling is YOU DON’T REDUCE THE PRICE WHEN THEY SELL OUT AT THE PRICE YOU SET!!! By definition, it is worth what someone will pay for it.
Hoping this one isn’t broken like the last one I bought from woot. It already had an rma# on the box when it arrived. I opened it and it had a broken keyboard both visibly and functionally
You are liars.
I bought a laptop which has specified 4Gb of RAM. Actually it 2GB…
The biggest problem that I can’t even contact the service center of Toshiba. Because I’m from Russia. Even the shipping cost me so many nerves and money.
I am very upset. Very disappointed.
@Veter9 hey, looks like you posted this in another thread, too. You should definitely contact meh.com/support and let them know the product you received was not what you ordered.
@Veter9 I just got mine today, and I confirmed it’s 4GB. If you’re sure yours is 2GB, then definitely contact meh support as you’d have gotten a dud.
@dunda thanks, i’ll write them.
@dunda unfortunately memtest86+ and any linux live USBdistr shows only 2Gb instead of 4Gb.