@thismyusername technically, you probably could. You won't have any disk space left, but could add an external drive. And to be legit, you'd have to buy a windows license. Wouldn't recommend it....
@eeterrific I heard that MSFT will allow illegitimate versions of Win7 and Win8 to be upgraded to Win10 for free (and activate it with a legitimate license). Not saying it's legit, but it would mean no need for a license.
@brhfl Thanks for the info. I've been thinking of getting one to replace my older, heavier laptops. It looks like I know what I'm getting myself for Christmas this year.
@ccyoun In my experience buying more than a dozen chromebooks in the last couple of years, mostly all of the time, the Google Drive offer has been redeemed, but it'll probably still have some, if not all of the Gogo internet passes since people rarely ever use them.
@dannyjoe08 I am not sure why you would call them garbage. I am on one right now, my laptop is sitting on the floor. This device is awesome for surfing the web and watching videos. I do all of my homework on it and use it for skype, now that skype has a beta web version. I could not be happier with mine.
My Chromebook is my go-to computer. My laptop is infected with windows until I can get Linux installed on it. Chromebook has NEVER given me a problem & goes everywhere. Crazy good battery life, too.
@conandlibrarian May I ask you to elaborate on how you do your homework on it? I'm considering getting this for my daughter, to replace an aging tablet, but am trying to decide if I should just get her a laptop instead.
@Achromatter I use Office365, so I have access to Word and Excel. My college uses a distance learning program call Desire2Learn which works fine on my Chromebook. Office 365 is great for school, I can do a paper in a format that is familiar to me, and accepted by my professors.
@Achromatter Google Drive is free and very robust, I use it at work all the time. She may have access to Office365 for free. Check with her school. Many schools/districts have deals with Microsoft to offer the product for free to their students and staff.
BTW, if she recieves a Word documents, she will be able to view them, it will just open on Google Drive.
@dannyjoe08 Yeah, but they are built quite well. My wife's Chromebook is still in perfect shape, while my much-more-powerful Lenovo has had the screen break twice, power connector broke twice and my "Y" key falls off. I'd recommend the Chromebook in a heartbeat.
@SteveL Amazing! Congrats! That had been my goal, but every month or two there is someday I don't remember until its too late. I don't think I'll ever get past my 135 consecutive meh clicks.
@SteveL That's amazing, congrats! I was trying to get to a year and failed, first due to the 9/11 Meh. curse where clicks disappeared, then due to forgetfulness. I'd suggest you celebrate tonight by not clicking :).
Just to one up you, since that's how I roll (unfortunately, according to my wife) take the product of your age in days, times the amount spent in your one year report/statistics from Meh. in pennies, times your longest streak of Meh. clicks (500 I guess in your case). I'll bet I win this one and will proudly claim to be the oldest, dumbest aMeh.rican.
My Meh. ageSpendClick production ANSWER = 1.42933E+12
My regular laptop's touchpad just stopped working and nothing I've tried has worked to fix it. A wireless mouse doesn't work on it either, so now I'm stuck with no laptop (keyboard still works though).
Strongly considering buying this.
As a side note, anyone know what might be wrong with my laptop?
@Thumperchick I'm not by the laptop now (in the library using their computer), so what will pushing F6 do? From what I can google it looks like it switches between desktop files/taskbar/system tray and navigates browser window items. This is definitely a huge help, but it doesn't really fix the trackpad/mouse lol
@sohmageek I reinstalled the track pad driver. It's still sorta broken though because it won't recognize my Logitech keyboard/mouse combo (km350). The keyboard works but the mouse doesn't. And neither show up on the device manager. I think I'm just gonna reinstall the OS
@BkrT try different USB port. Or try a different dongle. We have about 30 wireless keyboard/mouse combos at work and occasionally I swap dongles out as they stop pairing properly.
@sohmageek Unfortunately I'm only have 1 usb 3.0 port to work with, the other one shorted out or something (another problem I need to troubleshoot lol). And if the dongle wasn't working wouldn't both the keyboard and mouse not being working? As of now, just the mouse won't work. Keyboard works fine
@BkrT maybe. Try I pairing and repairing the mouse. We had one mouse where the optical part came loose and was up inside it somewhere. The buttons worked fine. For the $15 it was better to buy a new one than ship it back. I took a screwdriver to it and popped the optics where they should be. Makes you almost miss ball mice....
Perhaps this could push our old bullet-proof Toshiba NB505 (1024 x 600) netbook into the back corner of the closet. (Been using it with an external drive to watch DVD's whilst camping.) Full HD 1920 x 1080 crammed into 13 inches on this Chromebook? Monster improvement. But something tells me there might not be a resident DVD player app in Chrome?
@RedOak everything I have ever read has said that chromebooks can't play dvds due to licence restrictions (they don't wanna pay the $5 fee, same reason windows quit playing by default, the downside here is there is no VideoLan (VLC) for chrome os (yet).)
If I hadn't just bought a Chromebook 2 I might have been tempted. And if the 1s screen is anything like the 2s, it IS definitely wonderful. Especially for the money.
Well I'm a power user (dev, sysadmin) I use a Toshiba CB35-A3120 as my main machine. I think it is the same as Meh's offer but with 2GB instead of 4GB. I can open about 20 tabs before it auto-defecates. I use the Tabs Outliner extension to shuffle groups of tabs around.
I do a lot of command line stuff so it's basically just running a terminal window (using tmux on remote host) and a few browser tabs 99% of the time. Works great for that. You can also just install Linux on it, or run Linux in a container within it, or other weird stuff.
I was using MacBooks religiously but I realized I was just using Terminal most of the time which seemed kinda silly. I put an Apple logo sticker on the lid and the experience is pretty much the same for me.
If it was $100-$125 I'd buy another one, but honestly $150 is a little... meh.
I'll make a decision on this tomorrow, barring any sellout situation, but has anyone rocked a minimal Ubuntu install on one of these with crouton? Thoughts?
Picked one up basically because why not. I've been doing a lot of flying for work lately; it might come in handy for that, and if not, I know I can find it a home.
So for anyone on the fence about this thing, it's a pretty good deal. The screen is amazing - the average Chromebook screen is usually a crappy 11.6"~@ 1366 x768 display. The formfactor is awesome: .75" thick @ 2.9lbs w/ a 13" display make this great for a travel laptop that you can beat the shit of without feeling too bad about if you break it.
The 4gb RAM is also great, it's double what the "baseline" Chromebooks are. (My Asus only has 2gb and runs fine with KDE/Ubuntu).
The processor and the storage are the mehest part about this thing. Passmark has the processor at 1059 (vs. the older C720's 2955u's 1462). The SSD is only 16gb, so you probably already figured out that sucked. I run a micro/slim USB3 thumb drive in mine though, super fast and cheap without having to upgrade the SSD.
Real talk though dawg, it's a Chromebook. You're probably going to be using it for watching cat videos or porn (realistically, probably both.. maybe not at the same time.) and for $150 it's a good deal.
I just bought a real laptop during recent Thanksgiving/Black Friday deals, so meh. This does seem like a decent deal though, would probably buy if 100 to 125 $...
@lapisa22 The deal resets at midnight everyday. So right now its 12:50 a.m EST. T-minus 23 hours and 10 minutes until the deal is gone. Or it might sellout early, which is unpredictable.
@lapisa22 Deals last for 24 hours from 11pm CST If it sell out you will have to wait til 11pm to see what the new deal. I have a gut feeling this might sell out.
@lapisa22 recently, some deals have been extended for six hours to very mediocre people (VMP's) which is meh's free shipping club that costs $5 for 30 days and also gets you other cool stuff at times... but mostly it is what they ^^ (above me) are saying.
You know we're living in the future when the main complaint about this laptop, which would outperform almost every single option on the market 10 years ago is that its not $25-$50 cheaper lol.
@BkrT 10 years ago... maybe less than 10... 10 years ago was about when I think I purchased my first laptop... came with 1 GB ram, and I think a 30 GB hard drive... maybe we were up to 100 by then, but I doubt it... black Friday sale at walmart, I think I paid the same amount as Meh is asking for this... so From a technical aspect, yes this laptop is much better than what I got 10 years ago... but I'm also not trying to install Windows XP on it where 4 GB was AWESOME, and 16 GB hard drive (let alone that it's faster) was ok, but still not preferred...
Anybody know if there's been any progress towards getting versions of Matlab or Stata on chromebooks? I'm not in market - got a laptop ~6 months ago - but am still curious.
@njd@henare I probably should have phrased the question a bit differently: do you know if chromebooks are trending to a place where they will have more functionality or are they pretty much going to stay like this? (maybe internet and video will get sharper in subsequent versions, or something)
@Mehntok Video capabilities will improve, but the trend Chromebooks are counting on is the cloud. The capabilities are hosted elsewhere, and your device is just your interface to it. So Matlab in the cloud is how this would happen.
@djslack@mehntok yup. capabilities will improve (there's mumbling about smooshing chromeos with android) but all the heavy lifting happens elsewhere. the whole point is that you can do it in a browser...
Can't do this with presents to buy yet, but,but,but...I'm smitten! Nice price, nice screen , and an sd slot. All I need for surfing and doing light photo editing.
So I went off and read that wirecutter article linked above and convinced myself to bite, only to return to a sellout. I probably didn't need it anyway, to be honest.
I've been using a chromebook for a year now I would not have bought this one because I already have one and one is all you need. The battery life is great and it does all the internetty things well. keyboard kinda sucks but is good enough for typing blurbs. I also bought a new laptop to do real work on though.
Regarding Chromebooks: It really is a "get the right tool for the job' situation. There are those that find these a perfect fit for their needs, those who find NO good use for them and those who want to "adapt" them to make them into something else. The confusion happens when some new potential buyer reads comments without understanding this.
Urgh... I would've bought 2 of these instantly. I wish I checked earlier. When did it sell out... no don't tell me. Just bring more Chromebooks, please.
@JerseyFrank Thats why I created a script that runs every day at 10PM MDT and sends me a text message with what the item is and a link to meh (mainly so I don't forget to click the meh face but the script always fails at least once every 100 days or so and then I forget to click the meh face and lose my streak :(... happened like 3 times already).
@djslack Yeah but where's the fun and challenge in that?! :) I like the satisfaction of being able to build something like that myself and try and figure out how to fix it when it breaks.
What is this psychological phenomena where I don't remember what I bought, but the stuff that I wanted to buy and sold out beofre I could get it---I remember that stuff forever?
Woot has these occasionally as well. Suggest using @lichme's wootstalker to set up an alert if you're still on the hunt.
I purchased one of these new from Amazon last April and it was worth the $300 I paid for it then. So, yes, this was a steal IMO. My daughter uses it for everything -- school, entertainment, writing, etc. The screen is amazing for a Chromebook, maybe even for a laptop. It's light, powerful and easy to use.
If I had one gripe, the body is plastic and feels a little cheap, but my attitude on laptops is that it's what's on the inside that really matters. So, like the opposite of people.
@Thumperchick Respectfully, I have no intention of paying two cents to send this unit to be fixed after it arrived defective, irregardless of it being new or refurbished. meh can refund my purchase, send me a shipping invoice, I'll send it back to them and they can do with it what they want, and meh can retrieve their cost from the company (Encore computers) that refurbished it because Encore sold a defective unit to meh which in turn sold it to me.
I have done so, their email stated they will get back to me on Monday and included a case#. Thank you for your reply on a Saturday. I recognize my frustration was showing - refurbished electronics sold online, I should know better. Have a nice evening.
Has anyone received one of these Toshiba Chrome books and the power supply plug is too big for the laptop? Whoever did the refurbishing put in the wrong power supply.
I ordered a replacement on eBay until I get meh or Toshiba to get me a replacement. I don't want to run out of power until I find out who screwed up. The male DC power jack connector on the eBay replacement power supply is definitely different and smaller than what I received in the package. I am expecting to see other postings soon, I can't be the only one.
Still using this Chromebook as my all-purpose laptop for more than 3 years. I don’t find any significantly better deals than this Chromebook even 3 years later. Though it doesn’t support Crostini which is “Linux on Chromebook”, but I connect to my Android phone with mosh to develop softwares with this laptop.
Specs
Condition: Refurbished
Warranty: 90 Day Toshiba
Estimated Delivery: 12/18 - 12/21
Shipping: $5 or free with VMP
What’s in the Box?
1x Toshiba Chromebook 2
1x AC power adapter
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Price Comparison
$299.99 List, $269 (New) at Amazon
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Monday, January 28th - Monday, February 4th
meh?
Gonna have to book it.....idk
Meh. I'll take a Mac Air for $150, though... 😜
@haydesigner You are in luck, I found one at your price point. http://www.ebay.com/itm/APPLE-MACBOOK-AIR-13-3-2009-NEW-APPLE-BATTERY-NO-HD-SOLD-AS-IS-REPAIR-PARTS-/121833962543?hash=item1c5ddebc2f:g:mkAAAOSwAYtWPDDi
@rileyper don't have to travel to that page to see why.
@rileyper SWEET, sold! Community Meh comes through again…
Mehshiba
Can I install windows 10 on it?
@thismyusername
@rileyper ahh, I might buy it then, all my machines keep getting infected with windows 10... this might be the way to stop it?
@thismyusername technically, you probably could. You won't have any disk space left, but could add an external drive. And to be legit, you'd have to buy a windows license. Wouldn't recommend it....
@thismyusername chromebooks are nice, its hard to get them infected.
@eeterrific I heard that MSFT will allow illegitimate versions of Win7 and Win8 to be upgraded to Win10 for free (and activate it with a legitimate license). Not saying it's legit, but it would mean no need for a license.
@rileyper @thisismyusername. I got Windows 10 to work on an HP Chromebook 14. SO, I say yes.
@minktheshrink MS will upgrade any legit or ill-legit version of windows 7 on... EVEN IF YOU DON'T WANT IT TO. :)
Good deal. Too bad I've got five laptops already...three Windows 10, two Linux mint..
@eeterrific to bad every turd in cali bought them all up
I feel like I'm entering the Mehlight Zone in the last pic.
I wish I had more than one meh to give.
The screen really makes this, as does the 4gb of ram.
WAY nicer than the typical 13 blah blah by seven sixty yuck 2 gig stuff that adorn most chrome books
@Comedian exactly. sorry i missed it ...
If it was refubbed for $125 I might budge.
Looks like a solid chromebook, 4gb ram and 1080 HD display. reviews look great.
@rileyper $99 here :)
@thismyusername $99 would turn my 'might' into a 'will'.
@rileyper I authorize meh to charge me 100$ in evchange for this
@rileyper I just bought a chromebook for $99 (refurbished) but it's not as big as this one.
Well shoot, what a sparkling-gleaming-market this is... Don't make the same mistake I did and do research on how great this Chromebook is.
I too would bite at $99
I got one, because 1) my laptop has stealth become my desktop and 2) I can always use this as a Xmas gift and feel real magnanimous.
I wish I could put a decent OS like Windows 10 on it, I'd be all over it at this price.
@Froggy HP makes a similar type with Windows 10 (or Windows 8.1 with an upgrade to 10)
http://store.hp.com/us/en/mdp/Laptops/stream-notebook#features
Office Depot / Office Max sells the Stream 13 with the 13.3 inch screen compared to the 11 inch on the HP website.
@TheTexasTwister HP Streams are quite nice, I maintain them for a couple of family members. For the price, hard to beat.
@brhfl Thanks for the info. I've been thinking of getting one to replace my older, heavier laptops. It looks like I know what I'm getting myself for Christmas this year.
Does the refurbished one come w/ 12 free Gogo Internet Pass & 100G Google Drive?
@ccyoun In my experience buying more than a dozen chromebooks in the last couple of years, mostly all of the time, the Google Drive offer has been redeemed, but it'll probably still have some, if not all of the Gogo internet passes since people rarely ever use them.
Chromebooks are garbage. They are barely any more powerful than your smartphone.
@dannyjoe08 I am not sure why you would call them garbage. I am on one right now, my laptop is sitting on the floor. This device is awesome for surfing the web and watching videos. I do all of my homework on it and use it for skype, now that skype has a beta web version. I could not be happier with mine.
@dannyjoe08
My Chromebook is my go-to computer. My laptop is infected with windows until I can get Linux installed on it. Chromebook has NEVER given me a problem & goes everywhere. Crazy good battery life, too.
@conandlibrarian my Chromebook played choppy hbo, but my phone has no problem.
@dannyjoe08 As powerful as my $600 phone but only $100-$200 and a bigger screen. And a keyboard. And actual ports.
@conandlibrarian May I ask you to elaborate on how you do your homework on it? I'm considering getting this for my daughter, to replace an aging tablet, but am trying to decide if I should just get her a laptop instead.
@Achromatter I use Office365, so I have access to Word and Excel. My college uses a distance learning program call Desire2Learn which works fine on my Chromebook. Office 365 is great for school, I can do a paper in a format that is familiar to me, and accepted by my professors.
@conandlibrarian Thanks. So I guess without office365 this wouldn't be very usefull?
@Achromatter Google Drive is free and very robust, I use it at work all the time. She may have access to Office365 for free. Check with her school. Many schools/districts have deals with Microsoft to offer the product for free to their students and staff.
BTW, if she recieves a Word documents, she will be able to view them, it will just open on Google Drive.
@conandlibrarian Thanks Much, appreciate it.
@dannyjoe08 All generalities are wrong.
@dannyjoe08 Yeah, but they are built quite well. My wife's Chromebook is still in perfect shape, while my much-more-powerful Lenovo has had the screen break twice, power connector broke twice and my "Y" key falls off. I'd recommend the Chromebook in a heartbeat.
Definitely tempted.
Doooo Eeeet!
The Meh face needs some more transparency.
@atannir Thanks, fixing that now.
@dave You are awesome.
lifeless-packed-cough i suck
Love my Samsung Chromebook!
Got this for a spare. Or a gift.
Or just because I hate windows so much.
I'll have you know that auto-cad eats my memory like nuts
WHY!?!?!?!?! Why, Meh Why????? Two days in a row you've put up something for sale that I just bought one of or at least a similar one.
A Curse on you and your Servers
Just like to say I reached 500 consecutive meh button clicks in a row today! Meh...I really do have a life...I think.
@SteveL Amazing! Congrats! That had been my goal, but every month or two there is someday I don't remember until its too late. I don't think I'll ever get past my 135 consecutive meh clicks.
@SteveL That's amazing, congrats! I was trying to get to a year and failed, first due to the 9/11 Meh. curse where clicks disappeared, then due to forgetfulness. I'd suggest you celebrate tonight by not clicking :).
Just to one up you, since that's how I roll (unfortunately, according to my wife) take the product of your age in days, times the amount spent in your one year report/statistics from Meh. in pennies, times your longest streak of Meh. clicks (500 I guess in your case). I'll bet I win this one and will proudly claim to be the oldest, dumbest aMeh.rican.
My Meh. ageSpendClick production ANSWER = 1.42933E+12
My regular laptop's touchpad just stopped working and nothing I've tried has worked to fix it. A wireless mouse doesn't work on it either, so now I'm stuck with no laptop (keyboard still works though).
Strongly considering buying this.
As a side note, anyone know what might be wrong with my laptop?
@BkrT push F6.
@Thumperchick I'm not by the laptop now (in the library using their computer), so what will pushing F6 do? From what I can google it looks like it switches between desktop files/taskbar/system tray and navigates browser window items. This is definitely a huge help, but it doesn't really fix the trackpad/mouse lol
@BkrT Sorry, on my newer laptop, that turns the trackpad on/off. I thought I'd said that, sorry I only posted one part of a full sentence.
@BkrT try another usb mouse and or move the wireless mouse usb receiver to another usb port
@Thumperchick Haha no worries! Thanks for the advice. I'm gonna troubleshoot it some more tomorrow before maybe pulling the trigger on this meh deal.
@BkrT Just got home and fixed my mouse/trackpad, google is the best
@BkrT What was it?
@sohmageek I reinstalled the track pad driver. It's still sorta broken though because it won't recognize my Logitech keyboard/mouse combo (km350). The keyboard works but the mouse doesn't. And neither show up on the device manager. I think I'm just gonna reinstall the OS
@BkrT try different USB port. Or try a different dongle. We have about 30 wireless keyboard/mouse combos at work and occasionally I swap dongles out as they stop pairing properly.
@sohmageek Unfortunately I'm only have 1 usb 3.0 port to work with, the other one shorted out or something (another problem I need to troubleshoot lol). And if the dongle wasn't working wouldn't both the keyboard and mouse not being working? As of now, just the mouse won't work. Keyboard works fine
@BkrT maybe. Try I pairing and repairing the mouse. We had one mouse where the optical part came loose and was up inside it somewhere. The buttons worked fine. For the $15 it was better to buy a new one than ship it back. I took a screwdriver to it and popped the optics where they should be. Makes you almost miss ball mice....
I'd rather surf on a tablet and use a powerful computer when I want to type, Meh Chromebook.
@Stallion If it were Meh Branded and Meh provided tech support 24/7/365 (1 year) maybe... but... I'm pretty happy with my Mac Air :)
@Stallion What-all are you typing that you need a powerful computer to do it?
@InFrom A really Meh book to take over the world! I should have said when I want to "Work", not type.
Perhaps this could push our old bullet-proof Toshiba NB505 (1024 x 600) netbook into the back corner of the closet. (Been using it with an external drive to watch DVD's whilst camping.) Full HD 1920 x 1080 crammed into 13 inches on this Chromebook? Monster improvement. But something tells me there might not be a resident DVD player app in Chrome?
@RedOak I'd like to know that, too.
@RedOak everything I have ever read has said that chromebooks can't play dvds due to licence restrictions (they don't wanna pay the $5 fee, same reason windows quit playing by default, the downside here is there is no VideoLan (VLC) for chrome os (yet).)
@thismyusername Thanks. That beautiful Full HD IPS screen is tempting tho...
@RedOak Google has a Android runtime that you can use to run the android version of VLC on Chrome OS.
@thismyusername There is VLC - just not announced to the public - http://get.videolan.org/vlc-android/1.7.0/VLC-Android-CHROME-ALL.zip
@RedOak also spotted this, no idea if it would be fast enough to drive video under linux though http://www.fascinatingcaptain.com/howto/install-ubuntu-on-the-toshiba-chromebook-2-in-5-steps/
and dang now I want one... sure wish it was $99 :)
@azndante How do you run the vlc app (the link you referenced is a zip)? I currently use the vlc chrome extension. It is quite limited in options
@redhat27 it is in the chrome app store now. Just install it from there.
If I hadn't just bought a Chromebook 2 I might have been tempted. And if the 1s screen is anything like the 2s, it IS definitely wonderful. Especially for the money.
@DataMeister This one's a 2. Updated the title just to make that clearer.
@dave shoot that might have just gotten me to purchase...
Ah yes, the Google official virus free porn machine.
Well I'm a power user (dev, sysadmin) I use a Toshiba CB35-A3120 as my main machine. I think it is the same as Meh's offer but with 2GB instead of 4GB. I can open about 20 tabs before it auto-defecates. I use the Tabs Outliner extension to shuffle groups of tabs around.
I do a lot of command line stuff so it's basically just running a terminal window (using tmux on remote host) and a few browser tabs 99% of the time. Works great for that. You can also just install Linux on it, or run Linux in a container within it, or other weird stuff.
I was using MacBooks religiously but I realized I was just using Terminal most of the time which seemed kinda silly. I put an Apple logo sticker on the lid and the experience is pretty much the same for me.
If it was $100-$125 I'd buy another one, but honestly $150 is a little... meh.
@awk Hah, so did you name yourself after the Unix program?
@cutroil Nope those are my initials, but I do look a little like the guy on the right:
I'll make a decision on this tomorrow, barring any sellout situation, but has anyone rocked a minimal Ubuntu install on one of these with crouton? Thoughts?
@brhfl you're gonna be mad at me when you wake up...
@TaRDy Oh! I'm slipping. I'd forgotten. Curse you, goat, for my waking up too late to buy 3 of these.
Ah, I feel a tiny bit better now.
@sligett did you get mad because you were @tardy to the sale?
Ok... that's not quite @attyvette but still ;)
I've been watching that last image for the last 15 minutes! When does it end?!?!?!?!??!?
@bluejester It was at the 13 minute mark, refresh and watch it again cause you missed it.
Picked one up basically because why not. I've been doing a lot of flying for work lately; it might come in handy for that, and if not, I know I can find it a home.
brainy-tampered-dragonfly
Dual boot? I only run Ubuntu!
Echo what some are saying, I think 100$ would be my biting point.
@wyk3d apparently there are more suckers willing to pay a $50 premium over what you'd want for it to last very long....
@sohmageek I say congrats to them. There's an ass for every seat.
So for anyone on the fence about this thing, it's a pretty good deal.
The screen is amazing - the average Chromebook screen is usually a crappy 11.6"~@ 1366 x768 display.
The formfactor is awesome: .75" thick @ 2.9lbs w/ a 13" display make this great for a travel laptop that you can beat the shit of without feeling too bad about if you break it.
The 4gb RAM is also great, it's double what the "baseline" Chromebooks are. (My Asus only has 2gb and runs fine with KDE/Ubuntu).
The processor and the storage are the mehest part about this thing. Passmark has the processor at 1059 (vs. the older C720's 2955u's 1462). The SSD is only 16gb, so you probably already figured out that sucked. I run a micro/slim USB3 thumb drive in mine though, super fast and cheap without having to upgrade the SSD.
Real talk though dawg, it's a Chromebook. You're probably going to be using it for watching cat videos or porn (realistically, probably both.. maybe not at the same time.) and for $150 it's a good deal.
ETA: Battery life is banaynay. 9hrs~.
I just bought a real laptop during recent Thanksgiving/Black Friday deals, so meh. This does seem like a decent deal though, would probably buy if 100 to 125 $...
I'm new...how long is this good for? Never heard of meh
@lapisa22 The deal resets at midnight everyday. So right now its 12:50 a.m EST. T-minus 23 hours and 10 minutes until the deal is gone. Or it might sellout early, which is unpredictable.
@lapisa22 Deals last for 24 hours from 11pm CST If it sell out you will have to wait til 11pm to see what the new deal. I have a gut feeling this might sell out.
@lapisa22 recently, some deals have been extended for six hours to very mediocre people (VMP's) which is meh's free shipping club that costs $5 for 30 days and also gets you other cool stuff at times... but mostly it is what they ^^ (above me) are saying.
@lapisa22 SOLD OUT.
Devilish-artsy-gremlins. What? No square trade option? 90 day wty. Yikes. Hope this bodes well.
Deals last for 24 hrs or until sold out. Buy it now if you Want It.
You know we're living in the future when the main complaint about this laptop, which would outperform almost every single option on the market 10 years ago is that its not $25-$50 cheaper lol.
@BkrT 10 years ago... maybe less than 10... 10 years ago was about when I think I purchased my first laptop... came with 1 GB ram, and I think a 30 GB hard drive... maybe we were up to 100 by then, but I doubt it... black Friday sale at walmart, I think I paid the same amount as Meh is asking for this... so From a technical aspect, yes this laptop is much better than what I got 10 years ago... but I'm also not trying to install Windows XP on it where 4 GB was AWESOME, and 16 GB hard drive (let alone that it's faster) was ok, but still not preferred...
It is a deal for " keyed" up people --
This is an incredible steal since this is TheWirecutter's pick for best Chromebook you can buy
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Anybody know if there's been any progress towards getting versions of Matlab or Stata on chromebooks? I'm not in market - got a laptop ~6 months ago - but am still curious.
@Mehntok running serious software in a browser with a 16 GB SSD, what could you do?
You might be able to install on a remote Linux server and SSH from the Chromebook..
@Mehntok seems unlikely. this is not something you use for processing-intense computing.
@njd @henare I probably should have phrased the question a bit differently: do you know if chromebooks are trending to a place where they will have more functionality or are they pretty much going to stay like this? (maybe internet and video will get sharper in subsequent versions, or something)
@Mehntok Video capabilities will improve, but the trend Chromebooks are counting on is the cloud. The capabilities are hosted elsewhere, and your device is just your interface to it. So Matlab in the cloud is how this would happen.
@djslack @mehntok yup. capabilities will improve (there's mumbling about smooshing chromeos with android) but all the heavy lifting happens elsewhere. the whole point is that you can do it in a browser...
Thanks everyone :-) I bought one! I have never bought a refurbished anything before but sounds like it doesn't matter :-) thanks for the info!
@lapisa22 good thing you went ahead and bought cause it already sold out. Around here if you snooze...ya lose
Can't do this with presents to buy yet, but,but,but...I'm smitten! Nice price, nice screen , and an sd slot. All I need for surfing and doing light photo editing.
Ha! I don't have to worry about it anymore. Sold Out.
@wew same
have a couple chromebooks sitting in the office, collecting dust. i'd waste money on 3 amazon fire tablets before buying one of these things.
I missed a nice deal, sigh.
So I went off and read that wirecutter article linked above and convinced myself to bite, only to return to a sellout. I probably didn't need it anyway, to be honest.
Congrats Meh on another sellout!
Oh my goodness! I'm so glad! Thanks @hippiechik now I'm even more glad I bought it!
I've been using a chromebook for a year now I would not have bought this one because I already have one and one is all you need. The battery life is great and it does all the internetty things well. keyboard kinda sucks but is good enough for typing blurbs. I also bought a new laptop to do real work on though.
Thank you fellow mehtizens - saved from hoarding instincts by another sellout. Wanted to add it to the tech pile but certainly did not need.
BTW, speaking of sellouts, isn't it about time to sell out the remaining pallet of JBL Mini speaker docks? Tomorrow's Friday.
Not much time left for the pre-Christmas gift-a-second-one to family members push.
Regarding Chromebooks: It really is a "get the right tool for the job' situation. There are those that find these a perfect fit for their needs, those who find NO good use for them and those who want to "adapt" them to make them into something else. The confusion happens when some new potential buyer reads comments without understanding this.
for whatever reason, these are giving me fond memories of the @Barney OLPC story :3
@Lotsofgoats Aww... (purple blush)
Urgh... I would've bought 2 of these instantly. I wish I checked earlier. When did it sell out... no don't tell me. Just bring more Chromebooks, please.
@JerseyFrank Thats why I created a script that runs every day at 10PM MDT and sends me a text message with what the item is and a link to meh (mainly so I don't forget to click the meh face but the script always fails at least once every 100 days or so and then I forget to click the meh face and lose my streak :(... happened like 3 times already).
@mehybe you could just text follow @wearemeh to 40404 and save all that work and potential script failure
@mehybe please send me the script and instructions for the somewhat technical ;)
@djslack really?, what is the text? "follow @wearemeh"?
@DMlivezey I'm sorry, leave the @ sign out. It's Twitter's text message alerts. See https://meh.com/forum/topics/how-to-get-meh-deals-as-a-daily-text-message
@djslack Yeah but where's the fun and challenge in that?! :) I like the satisfaction of being able to build something like that myself and try and figure out how to fix it when it breaks.
Looks as if by the posts, 9 hrs+ ago. 0030, maybe. They didn't have many to sell. 300 +. We shall see if we got lucky when they arrive.
@Mandamm sold out at 1:28 am ET.
Front page, scroll down - you'll find sales stats and sell out times.
@Thumperchick i am really happy to say i woke up on my Meh. pseudo alarm at 3:30 EST and it was sold out, i would have bought this for no good raisin.
missed it dangit
Only 347 to sell? Lower than mediocre!
This is the Chromebook for POWER Chromebook users. Too bad the stock ran out as I was placing my order last night.
What is this psychological phenomena where I don't remember what I bought, but the stuff that I wanted to buy and sold out beofre I could get it---I remember that stuff forever?
@wew photographic meh-mory
non-buyers remorse?
Woot has these occasionally as well. Suggest using @lichme's wootstalker to set up an alert if you're still on the hunt.
I purchased one of these new from Amazon last April and it was worth the $300 I paid for it then. So, yes, this was a steal IMO. My daughter uses it for everything -- school, entertainment, writing, etc. The screen is amazing for a Chromebook, maybe even for a laptop. It's light, powerful and easy to use.
If I had one gripe, the body is plastic and feels a little cheap, but my attitude on laptops is that it's what's on the inside that really matters. So, like the opposite of people.
Just received mine, the "k" and "l" keys don't work, how do I return it?
@kjg715lvphx For warranty replacement, you could contact Toshiba.
@Thumperchick Respectfully, I have no intention of paying two cents to send this unit to be fixed after it arrived defective, irregardless of it being new or refurbished. meh can refund my purchase, send me a shipping invoice, I'll send it back to them and they can do with it what they want, and meh can retrieve their cost from the company (Encore computers) that refurbished it because Encore sold a defective unit to meh which in turn sold it to me.
@kjg715lvphx easy enough. Contact meh.com/support and they'll help you with that.
I have done so, their email stated they will get back to me on Monday and included a case#. Thank you for your reply on a Saturday. I recognize my frustration was showing - refurbished electronics sold online, I should know better. Have a nice evening.
@kjg715lvphx No worries! It sucks when you get something and it's busted. Have a good weekend.
Has anyone received one of these Toshiba Chrome books and the power supply plug is too big for the laptop? Whoever did the refurbishing put in the wrong power supply.
@cyberroger1 that's super weird. You should hit up Toshiba for warranty coverage to see if they'll replace it.
I ordered a replacement on eBay until I get meh or Toshiba to get me a replacement. I don't want to run out of power until I find out who screwed up. The male DC power jack connector on the eBay replacement power supply is definitely different and smaller than what I received in the package. I am expecting to see other postings soon, I can't be the only one.
Still using this Chromebook as my all-purpose laptop for more than 3 years. I don’t find any significantly better deals than this Chromebook even 3 years later. Though it doesn’t support Crostini which is “Linux on Chromebook”, but I connect to my Android phone with mosh to develop softwares with this laptop.