I'm looking at an Acer Chromebook Spin 311 and I found one on eBay for only 100 bucks

I like chromebooks I like android I like that stuff and for the people saying that it's a spy book every laptop is every cell phone is every TV is every tablet is everyone is to be honest unless you don't want to have anything electronic you're being watched all the time 20:04 7 anyways I'm kind of like this I don't care Google if Facebook and all that knows where I am or who I am as long as I don't get a knock on the door by 2 FBI agents I really don't give a s***

very disappointed in mine.Mouse did not work proper from day 1. The camera works when it wants too. I would smash it with a hammer if I did not have a bunch of files on it.

I use my android phone and dell optiplex destop. I brought tv tuner for my pc and phone. I need to watch local tv without internet, play dvd , play some steam game, writing or open documents, like windows for my pc and android for my phone. If you have phone with you all the time and pc at home then you don't really need chromebook.

Am about to buy one I want to know if I can edit my YouTube videos are do my online work ❓

I like it. I bought a new one for $250. It's 17.3" it streams at the highest resolutions just fine, 10+ hours of battery life, I can get linux. I don't need to do much with it, just homework, youtube, and other web stuff.

I've been a staunch Windows user since the mid 90's and never used anything else. I have a desktop PC at home that runs Windows 10 and serves me well….I use it for 'heavy lifting' applications like Photoshop, video editing etc and it does the job.
I was looking for a laptop that I could use in the bedroom, or away from home and my needs were lightweight – surfing, checking emails, YT, the usual…..I got looking at Chromebooks and – even though I had doubt in my mind about them – eventually dived into the deep end, into the unknown – I bought a secondhand (pretty much nearly new) Asus C433T Flip Chromebook from Amazon.

It is brilliant!! It's speedy, lightweight, serves my lightweight needs online. It is well built, premium and the screen flips right over to be used as a tablet etc. It does everything I need it to do. I've also just bought a secondary portable , super slim monitor to go with it too. Just plug into the USB-C port and away you go.

Just a decade ago, if you needed to do simple basic work on a PC, Windows or a Mac was our only real choice. Chromebooks aren't for everyone, and eveyones needs are different, but for me (and perhaps most peoples General Purpose needs) a Chromebook will fit the bill.

If I had to introduce an elderly relative to the internet, I'd get them a Chromebook. Surfing, shopping, paying bills, email, video calls etc….superb!

Windows will always have its place, but for lightweight stuff, a Chromebook is worth a look at. Sadly, I find that Windows OS's do slow down over time for one reason or another, but with my Chromebook, that has NEVER happened. It just keeps on running, no questions asked.

Love my Chromebook, never looked back.

Your beating around the bush

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I hated ours. I spent more time trying to work out how to do the most simple things like change user or save a document for kids school work.
Stick to a normal laptop

Why bother with this crap. Just get a mac and make this fools pick their act up. Google is nothing but lies and scams.

Buying a $1000 chrome book was the worst thing I have ever done.

I would buy a chromebook if it somehow had an apple m1 chip in it and thus 18+ hours of battery life lol

I choose my Chromebook because Windows sucks and macOS is overkill. I don't trust Microsoft to stay out of my settings as I've heard they keep trying to force Edge on you as the default. I don't trust Apple to do the job right. AirTags seem a direct ripoff of Tile's IP and the iPad Pro should have Final Cut Pro on it and have an optional accessory that turns it into a poseable clamshell laptop. They're too concerned about money. Google still screws things up regularly and can't be trusted to honour old promises for a literally browser-only operating system. A few updates ago, they slowed down Android, too, because the architecture it ran on was no longer properly optimized.

All these companies and platforms are compromises but my Asus Flip C234 has a nice touchscreen, is ruggedized, and has a water-resistant keyboard. It's only 1366×768 but it's a responsive computer, and I got it for only $250 Canadian. I don't think I could bring myself to spend $1500 Canadian on a MacBook Air when its screen is probably more fragile, not being a touchscreen, and it won't do anything better than this Chromebook other than what the CPU/GPU can do, which isn't much on the internet.

Nobody is trying to make the best computer possible, all things considered, and sell it at a reasonable price. I think if they did, it would sell very quickly. Imagine a $1000 computer that ran desktop Linux (Windows optional) and every aspect of it was carefully chosen to be the best it possibly could be, within reason? Nobody does that because they're too busy counting pennies for everything and trying to get people to buy things in ways they don't want just to squeeze more money off each sale. Google and its partners are included in this.

I do wish this machine was faster and more powerful, at least as powerful as a decent smartphone. But I think I have the best computer available to me and I'm proud to have gotten such a great deal on it rather than suffer the embarrassment of paying over $1000 for something I'm not going to use and is easily ruined from a company I don't trust running an operating system I don't need or is downright sloppy in security, performance, and appearance.

im on a overpriced tablet when i needed a computer