I got one and it’s been a great pick up for working night shift. Put Linux on it and can load up some basic steam games like FTL. Definitely needs a storage upgrade though.
Finally used my Surface Pro fiasco coupon code, so I got it for a cool $110. I think its worth it as an update to my aging HP Chromebook, especially with the Android update coming this summer.
I kind of want a Chromebook to replace my tablet (I cracked the screen pretty bad) but I really want a big screen. This one is close to what I’m looking for, but I really want it to have a touchscreen.
I got one last time and really like it. As everyone says, the screen is awesome, and the speed has been just fine for everything I’ve used it for. It’s my default travel laptop now.
Ah, I thought meh was going with, “If it’s all in the cloud, The Man can confiscate anything and everything and they won’t have a byte of your information.”
Please sell out this time. I can’t stand more Chromebookige. Where’s a good Tweety-bird mp3 player when you need it?
I’m typing this on mine. If you thought “Yeah, but that’s not enough memory/too slow a CPU/too small a screen/whatever”, well, for some things, yeah. I still have a laptop for running VMs and real office apps and some stuff that requires exotic helper apps like BlueJeans/Zoom/Webex. I was skeptical as all get out of Chromebooks at first, and I think their marketing has a lot to do with it – “you use Google for everything anyway, this is all you need” doesn’t work for a lot of people, because they need, say, Office, not Google Docs, for work. Or better photo editing apps than you get from the Chrome Store (let me tell you, once you learn how to use it, GIMP is a whole lot better than a poke in the eye).
But this is a hell of a thing for $160. There are basic photo apps and such for it. And portability is a much bigger, more valuable thing than you think until you experience it. Every day I wake up and know I don’t need my full-size laptop that day because all I have is meetings, is a day I grab this little Chromebook off the couch, toss it in the car and know I can go anywhere there’s reliable Wi-Fi or LTE, because I don’t have to charge it till I get home whenever I want. I find myself, when I do need the big hefty Sager with the blinkenlights, putting off doing that part of whatever I’m doing till later, so I can go out at least for awhile and not have to drag the beast along.
Don’t think of it as a dinky laptop that can’t do anything heavy. Think of it as a $160 add-on to your laptop (or desktop) that lets you “un-dock” the 10% of it you use for 90% of your computing, so you can take just that 10% with you instead of the whole thing (and its support system if you plan to be anywhere for longer than a few hours).
@stinks Hm! Interesting! Although one notable thing about this Chromebook is the truly fantastic screen. Seriously, it’s better than most laptop screens I’ve had. I wonder how that Lenovo stacks up display- and weight-wise.
@communist I was able to place an order for 2 using a new account. I hope that Meh doesn’t cancel one of the orders, I’m not selling any of these, I need both for family members that love Chromebooks. An added bonus is that it reduces the amount of support I have to provide!
@jzmacdaddy The only laptop I could find is a 2 in 1 tablet by NuVision 8.9" HD Windows Tablet PC Hybrid that is sold by OfficeMax/Office Depot. Never heard of this brand before.
Just for amusement I tranzizzled part of the write up. Apologies to @JasonToon.
Yeah. Yo ass need suttin’ else. Right back up in yo muthafuckin ass. Some other thang ta handle yo’ underground shit. If you already have one, use dat shit. If you don’t, here you go.
This Toshiba Chromebook runs fast, has a 9-hour battery game, n’ has a pimpin’ sharp optical display. Everythang it do be all up in a funky-ass browser, all up in apps, n’ up in tha cloud, which is what tha fuck make it so skanky fo’ realz. And if you loot it, it’s straight-up 100% yours. Da Man might not care dat you binged on Archer when you was on call, or dat you gots tha fuck into a skanky ballistical Facebizzle brawl wit yo’ idiot nephew. But it’s still none of Da Man’s bidnizz…
I bought one of the newer models of this one during Prime Day (CB35-C3350). The screen is really amazing, and so far I’m loving it. It’s great for day to day surfing tasks while I’m sitting on the couch, and when it comes to work… well I do all my work in a VDI anyway. And the Chromebook can connect right up via the HTML5 citrix receiver no problem.
Bought one and I really like it. Love the battery life! My wife likes it better than her macbook pro because it is much lighter and cooler on the lap to surf the web while chilling on the couch.
Bought one of these last time they were up. It has a row of stuck pixels (red is stuck on) about half the screen width. I’ve also had a lot of issues where it would drop wi-fi after two or three minutes while connected to my quite new high end router. Sometimes I could reboot two or three times and it would come back. Twice the only way to get reconnected was to wipe the machine and strat from scratch. After reading dozens of articles about this I finally dusted off a 5 year old Linksys and added it as a second access point and it seems to stay connected to that just fine.
When it is connected it is crazy fast and great for just browsing. Chrome OS seems to be very finicky with the codec used to encode videos that I’ve tried to watch locally. Most times I needed to re-encode the movies to be able to watch them.
The last time these were on sale, my boss got twelve. The way around the one per customer rule is to have a lot friends, neighbors, and former students, that trust you enough to spend $160 + $5 with the promise that you will pay them back later.
Many of them are visible in this picture, . Note how clean the room was at the beginning.
Here is a picture from later in the week. One of the students releasing the autonomous Arduino controlled helicopter that they built. Sorry for the bad focus, I mean, picture intentionally blurred to ensure privacy.
@communist No complaints so far. Quite a few noticed how small and light they were compared to their parents’ laptops. I overheard a couple of them comparing the screen quality to some lesser quality laptops.
Worth mentioning that if you’re a bit tech savvy and google around a little, it’s easy to get one of these running Linux (or even dual-booting Linux with ChromeOS). You basically have to flash the firmware and then format a partition from a USB stick. I bought one of these last time they were up, and got a little frustrated with how limited it was, but putting Linux on it solved that. You’re still not going to be running fancy games on it or anything, but it can be turned into a pretty snappy little laptop that is one hell of a deal for the price.
@njd I installed Gallium (which is a linux distro designed for Chromebook ), it maps the meta key to the search key or to right-alt. There’s a few different keyboard setups you can pick to compensate for the weird keyboard.
The free 100gb is once per device. In the last round we got a dozen laptops. None of them had any signs of wear. I am guessing that the vast majority of them were returned due to instant buyer’s remorse. Perhaps some were DOA for the original owner. It didn’t look like any were used for a few months then returned under warrantee.
I think refurbing consists of cleaning them, putting back the standard ancient version of ChromeOS, adding the return sticker, then packing them in fresh packing material.
I bought one, I like it, use it rarely. What I Really need to do is figure out where the hell I put the charger… LOL However, with all the powerbanks I own, it hasn’t been an issue. Alot lighter than my Dell 17". Easier to travel with, etc…
My screen was destroyed randomly after a couple weeks of use when I bought this. Wasn’t handled hard or anything, just opened up and it had a line down the middle with rainbow pixelation. Too bad. Toshiba had me send pictures of it to them and then I never heard anything back.
@thismyusername Same response using the Buy It button on the order page. I came here second to leave a time stamped record on the forum.
Oh well, I am sending a message to meh support, they’ll figure it out since they put the “excellent” in meh.
(A little shameless sucking up never hurt.)
@najeebzs Update: Just got an email saying it’s been shipped!
The tracking says it’s already in my city so I hope I receive it before the estimated delivery of July 28th
Just got mine and it’s stuck in enterprise mode which makes it useless until the company that previously registered it deactivates it. So I gotta wait a couple more days to go through the official channels. Lame sauce.
I’ve had mine for a couple weeks now, the screen looks very nice and the sound is good for a laptop. I do see a lot of flex when I open it up or try to pick it up with one hand. I’m wondering if the flex is the reason some have had screen problems? I plan to open the screen from the center to avoid the flex I see when I open it from the corner. I had problems with some AVI files but that was cured with VLC. I am happy with it so far.
I a have to be the only person alive that wishes these these came back up for sale again. My screen in mine got broke and I am now in love with it. Like I almost should be locked way type in love … …
Specs
Condition: Refurbished
Shipping: $5 or free with VMP
What’s in the Box?
1x Toshiba Chromebook 2
1x AC power adapter
Pictures
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Front view
Top/keyboard view
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Warranty
Warranty: 90 Day Toshiba
lame
@Skylord123 extremely
Enough with the Chromebooks!
@mcemanuel Holy $hit, how many of these damn things do they have???!!!
Book 'em, Dan-O
Meh chrome book- compute that
Whee! A Chromebook.
Eh… Uh, never mind .
Already have one
Even a bluetooth of any variety looks better at this point
@mcemanuel Do not worry. They come equipped with bluetooth. Chrome OS support keyboards, mice and audio devices. They don’t support serial devices.
Chromeh-book.
Keep in mind, in less than a year, this will support Android apps.
https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-supporting-android-apps
/giphy interesting…
I mean, that’s as good as any reason if I ever heard one.
So many Chromebook offers, Meh. Howz about a nice name-brand tablet?
@heartny This.
I get the feeling we’re getting flash drives tomorrow to make up for the 16 GBs in this chromebook.
P.S: Meh.
@JT954 that’d be fine by me…
Interested, but with android apps coming to chromebooks, I want a minimum of 32GB…
@eeterrific Good call, was about to pull the trigger…didnt think of that.
i’m getting god use out of mine, very nice form factor and screen
@Yoda_Daenerys GOD USE!!!
/giphy Kratos chromebook
I got one and it’s been a great pick up for working night shift. Put Linux on it and can load up some basic steam games like FTL. Definitely needs a storage upgrade though.
Toshiba Chromebook 2- the Meh 2016 speaker dock
Finally used my Surface Pro fiasco coupon code, so I got it for a cool $110. I think its worth it as an update to my aging HP Chromebook, especially with the Android update coming this summer.
I kind of want a Chromebook to replace my tablet (I cracked the screen pretty bad) but I really want a big screen. This one is close to what I’m looking for, but I really want it to have a touchscreen.
Isn’t form factor the same thing as just form?
Very nice form. Says it all.
Like pre-heating the oven. You’re just heating it. Or pre existing condition. It’s just an existing condition.
Form is a noun. If you say form factor, is form an adjective? Form factor means the part of the factor that is form-centric?
@MehnofLaMehncha In short, no.
I got one last time and really like it. As everyone says, the screen is awesome, and the speed has been just fine for everything I’ve used it for. It’s my default travel laptop now.
@RedOak No, no, sure, no, that’s not an upgrade.
/giphy not an upgrade
@sligett Thanks. We just saved about 30 inches of e-paper below.
Ugh I just bought a Chromebook during that Prime Day sale. If there are some in the morning I will order this and return the other one.
Ah, I thought meh was going with, “If it’s all in the cloud, The Man can confiscate anything and everything and they won’t have a byte of your information.”
Please sell out this time. I can’t stand more Chromebookige. Where’s a good Tweety-bird mp3 player when you need it?
/giphy tweety bird mp3
@stinks This gif reminds me of all those effing glitter themes in MySpace.
@ruouttaurmind I can’t account for /giphy’s lack of taste.
I’m typing this on mine. If you thought “Yeah, but that’s not enough memory/too slow a CPU/too small a screen/whatever”, well, for some things, yeah. I still have a laptop for running VMs and real office apps and some stuff that requires exotic helper apps like BlueJeans/Zoom/Webex. I was skeptical as all get out of Chromebooks at first, and I think their marketing has a lot to do with it – “you use Google for everything anyway, this is all you need” doesn’t work for a lot of people, because they need, say, Office, not Google Docs, for work. Or better photo editing apps than you get from the Chrome Store (let me tell you, once you learn how to use it, GIMP is a whole lot better than a poke in the eye).
But this is a hell of a thing for $160. There are basic photo apps and such for it. And portability is a much bigger, more valuable thing than you think until you experience it. Every day I wake up and know I don’t need my full-size laptop that day because all I have is meetings, is a day I grab this little Chromebook off the couch, toss it in the car and know I can go anywhere there’s reliable Wi-Fi or LTE, because I don’t have to charge it till I get home whenever I want. I find myself, when I do need the big hefty Sager with the blinkenlights, putting off doing that part of whatever I’m doing till later, so I can go out at least for awhile and not have to drag the beast along.
Don’t think of it as a dinky laptop that can’t do anything heavy. Think of it as a $160 add-on to your laptop (or desktop) that lets you “un-dock” the 10% of it you use for 90% of your computing, so you can take just that 10% with you instead of the whole thing (and its support system if you plan to be anywhere for longer than a few hours).
@kensey But the Lenovo 100S does run GIMP and friends for the same price. Underpowered, sure, but no silly Google services restriction.
Not that you can’t use Google services on the Lenovo. It’s like a Chromebook++!
@stinks Hm! Interesting! Although one notable thing about this Chromebook is the truly fantastic screen. Seriously, it’s better than most laptop screens I’ve had. I wonder how that Lenovo stacks up display- and weight-wise.
later this year , early next year, this chromebook will support android apps
https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chrome-os-systems-supporting-android-apps
OOPS, SORRY. YOU CAN’T BUY ANY MORE OF THESE (YOU ALREADY BOUGHT 1).
Why?
@Kyser_Soze resellers, you can buy these and resell for a small profit.
@communist
@communist I was able to place an order for 2 using a new account. I hope that Meh doesn’t cancel one of the orders, I’m not selling any of these, I need both for family members that love Chromebooks. An added bonus is that it reduces the amount of support I have to provide!
You can get a low end win 10 laptop for that price. Much more useful.
@jzmacdaddy Like what? Windows would run like shit on a $150 laptop.
@andrewpatrick Agreed. I would love to see one of these low end win 10 laptops you refer to. Please post.
@jzmacdaddy The only laptop I could find is a 2 in 1 tablet by NuVision 8.9" HD Windows Tablet PC Hybrid that is sold by OfficeMax/Office Depot. Never heard of this brand before.
Typing this on the exact same model. This is a fantastic machine, and the display really is as nice as everyone says! Absolute steal for the price.
I also have the exact same model. Love it.
Warrenty less than one year? Meh
@hachi05 Thanks for pointing that out. I hadn’t noticed the warranty is only 90 days.
Just for amusement I tranzizzled part of the write up. Apologies to @JasonToon.
Yeah. Yo ass need suttin’ else. Right back up in yo muthafuckin ass. Some other thang ta handle yo’ underground shit. If you already have one, use dat shit. If you don’t, here you go.
This Toshiba Chromebook runs fast, has a 9-hour battery game, n’ has a pimpin’ sharp optical display. Everythang it do be all up in a funky-ass browser, all up in apps, n’ up in tha cloud, which is what tha fuck make it so skanky fo’ realz. And if you loot it, it’s straight-up 100% yours. Da Man might not care dat you binged on Archer when you was on call, or dat you gots tha fuck into a skanky ballistical Facebizzle brawl wit yo’ idiot nephew. But it’s still none of Da Man’s bidnizz…
@KDemo "So don’t try to change my mind, I’ll try to tell you one more time
It’s none of your business."
Mic drop Salt’n’Pepa out.
@KDemo English, please.
You better not stop the model number reviews.
@sjwillis1 that has become my favorite part of the write up. Especially if it turns out to be ZIP-related
chrome book… yeah…
I bought one of the newer models of this one during Prime Day (CB35-C3350). The screen is really amazing, and so far I’m loving it. It’s great for day to day surfing tasks while I’m sitting on the couch, and when it comes to work… well I do all my work in a VDI anyway. And the Chromebook can connect right up via the HTML5 citrix receiver no problem.
Bought one and I really like it. Love the battery life! My wife likes it better than her macbook pro because it is much lighter and cooler on the lap to surf the web while chilling on the couch.
Bought one of these last time they were up. It has a row of stuck pixels (red is stuck on) about half the screen width. I’ve also had a lot of issues where it would drop wi-fi after two or three minutes while connected to my quite new high end router. Sometimes I could reboot two or three times and it would come back. Twice the only way to get reconnected was to wipe the machine and strat from scratch. After reading dozens of articles about this I finally dusted off a 5 year old Linksys and added it as a second access point and it seems to stay connected to that just fine.
When it is connected it is crazy fast and great for just browsing. Chrome OS seems to be very finicky with the codec used to encode videos that I’ve tried to watch locally. Most times I needed to re-encode the movies to be able to watch them.
@Odn contact meh.com/support they might be able to help
The last time these were on sale, my boss got twelve. The way around the one per customer rule is to have a lot friends, neighbors, and former students, that trust you enough to spend $160 + $5 with the promise that you will pay them back later.
Many of them are visible in this picture, . Note how clean the room was at the beginning.
Here is a picture from later in the week. One of the students releasing the autonomous Arduino controlled helicopter that they built. Sorry for the bad focus, I mean, picture intentionally blurred to ensure privacy.
@hamjudo how do the kids like them?
@communist No complaints so far. Quite a few noticed how small and light they were compared to their parents’ laptops. I overheard a couple of them comparing the screen quality to some lesser quality laptops.
One kid brought in a mouse from home.
Worth mentioning that if you’re a bit tech savvy and google around a little, it’s easy to get one of these running Linux (or even dual-booting Linux with ChromeOS). You basically have to flash the firmware and then format a partition from a USB stick. I bought one of these last time they were up, and got a little frustrated with how limited it was, but putting Linux on it solved that. You’re still not going to be running fancy games on it or anything, but it can be turned into a pretty snappy little laptop that is one hell of a deal for the price.
@SRavingmad What about the lack of keys? Do you just not have a meta key?
@njd I installed Gallium (which is a linux distro designed for Chromebook ), it maps the meta key to the search key or to right-alt. There’s a few different keyboard setups you can pick to compensate for the weird keyboard.
15$ tax, insane
@neelvp Talk to your state. meh doesn’t set the tax, they just collect it.
I just picked this up! Question- will I be able to gain access to the 100GB Drive storage, what with it being a Refurb and all…?
@najeebzs Probably, but no guarantee.
The free 100gb is once per device. In the last round we got a dozen laptops. None of them had any signs of wear. I am guessing that the vast majority of them were returned due to instant buyer’s remorse. Perhaps some were DOA for the original owner. It didn’t look like any were used for a few months then returned under warrantee.
I think refurbing consists of cleaning them, putting back the standard ancient version of ChromeOS, adding the return sticker, then packing them in fresh packing material.
@hamjudo Just got delivery of my chromebook and i’m pleased to say it’s in pristine condition. Plus I did get the 100GB storage. Victory!
Kodi?
This is tempting, especially with the hints here:
http://bgr.com/2016/07/18/some-chromebooks-have-finally-been-hacked-to-run-windows/
I bought one, I like it, use it rarely. What I Really need to do is figure out where the hell I put the charger… LOL However, with all the powerbanks I own, it hasn’t been an issue. Alot lighter than my Dell 17". Easier to travel with, etc…
I’m surprised this hasn’t sold out this time. Last few were gone in a couple hours.
mehbe at $99?
My screen was destroyed randomly after a couple weeks of use when I bought this. Wasn’t handled hard or anything, just opened up and it had a line down the middle with rainbow pixelation. Too bad. Toshiba had me send pictures of it to them and then I never heard anything back.
/buy
@2many2no We wanted the morning crowd to have a shot at this too, so we’re holding back some of these until 8am ET.
@mediocrebot What?
It’s VMP Last Call. There’s not supposed to be a hold back on Last Call, it’s over at 6:00 AM.
@shawn @hollboll What’s up with this?
@2many2no just do it from the order page if you really want one… but yea that is a bug for sure.
@thismyusername Same response using the Buy It button on the order page. I came here second to leave a time stamped record on the forum.
Oh well, I am sending a message to meh support, they’ll figure it out since they put the “excellent” in meh.
(A little shameless sucking up never hurt.)
Its been 3 days and my order is still “Processing”. Is my order okay? Should I be concerned?
@cpr Same here. Hoping to get an answer on this too as it had said I could expect it on Aug. 2nd.
@najeebzs Update: Just got an email saying it’s been shipped!
The tracking says it’s already in my city so I hope I receive it before the estimated delivery of July 28th
Was supposed to get delivered yesterday, looks like FedEx misplaced it. I’ll give it a couple days.
Just got mine and it’s stuck in enterprise mode which makes it useless until the company that previously registered it deactivates it. So I gotta wait a couple more days to go through the official channels. Lame sauce.
I’ve had mine for a couple weeks now, the screen looks very nice and the sound is good for a laptop. I do see a lot of flex when I open it up or try to pick it up with one hand. I’m wondering if the flex is the reason some have had screen problems? I plan to open the screen from the center to avoid the flex I see when I open it from the corner. I had problems with some AVI files but that was cured with VLC. I am happy with it so far.
I a have to be the only person alive that wishes these these came back up for sale again. My screen in mine got broke and I am now in love with it. Like I almost should be locked way type in love … …
My wife just killed it…spilled water on it. I did the same thing a few years ago with a $700 i7 windows laptop, so can’t get to mad about it.