Is a $25 Chromebook Worth It?!? (2023)

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@leximurphy5754 Жыл бұрын

I installed GalliumOS on an old, no longer supported Chromebook, and it works fantastically! I would honestly recommend it, it wasn't very difficult, and all told took me about 20 minutes (although that was after trying out different linux distros that did not work as well, but Gallium worked first try).

@a.lawrence4969 Жыл бұрын

Gallium OS is no longer in development but it was excellent distro

@judithensomo5758 9 ай бұрын

how can buy this chromebook?

@typingcat 8 ай бұрын

Arch works?

@tjn6278 6 ай бұрын

what about Armbian or Debian for ARM?

@crsv7armhl 6 ай бұрын

@@typingcat I have arch on one 4GB Ram Samsung Chromebook 3 after removing the write protect screw, and another of the same model/specs running manjaro. They work great and were ~$40

@ThailandDantotherescue Жыл бұрын

I bought a later generation chromebook that came in the original box and honestly looked brand new. It wasn't a convertible but a decent screen, snappy web browsing and perfect to play movies off an external drive. I gave one to my 81 year old father with a external drive full of over 500 movies. Totally worth it.

@krisowskyy Ай бұрын

so sweet. now i understand why people would buy it

@Boogie_the_cat Жыл бұрын

Thanks for mentioning to first unplug the battery. As someone who has experienced a lithium battery fire firsthand, I can positively say that it's not so much the fire that is dangerous, but the HUGE volumes of ultra toxic smoke that are released. If you are indoors when this happens with a large battery, and you do not quickly move it outside (which is not easy to do with an object that is on fire) you can pass out from the toxins, and you're gonna have a bad time either way. It's good to be readiness 😂

@lindastone6868 Жыл бұрын

Chromebooks are quite tricky when it comes to putting a new operating system on, but if you get the right model it's reasonably straightforward.

@escapetherace1943 2 ай бұрын

that's almost entirely untrue now. Most of them can be modded and you only have to enter dev mode, open crosh (chrome terminal) and run 2 script commands. wow big hard

@aeregreenway8096 Жыл бұрын

Try installing ChromeOS Flex on it. My Chromebook was no longer supported with updates, less than 2 years after I bought it. But ChromeOS Flex installed successfully on it, and got updates. Yet, its 12 -hour battery life, made it more valuable as a music performance machine, so I re-wrote its firmware with a version that works with Linux, and made it into a Linux machine, which works fine, and I continue to make good use of it.

@andrewlidholm5866 Жыл бұрын

I love when you do content covering older hardware! Great video Matt!

@mikerodgers7620 Жыл бұрын

I have an old Commodore 64 system.

@_blank_224 Жыл бұрын

yes finally ive always wanted a video like this but couldn't find one thank you soo much please make more videos like this!

@somethingboutthekiss Жыл бұрын

Going through the process of installing linux on your chromebook is worth it in my opinion, I did it for a Samsung Chromebook 3 that I have. It's definitely a task given that I had to remove the write protection screw and find a linux distro that actually worked with my hardware (The now discontinued GalliumOS was the only one that worked for me), but being able to use a more full featured operating system that is much better than the bare bones ChromeOS made the process all worth it.

@pixx6974 9 ай бұрын

I have the same chromebook installed bodhi linux it but there are minor issues like the first time you plug in charger it will not charge or show if its charging idk there's no indication but i plugged it out and put it back in it starts to charge the second one the micro sd card slot doesn t detect any sd card and the multimedia keys aren't mapped but you can manually do so and finally the hdmi doesn't give video output but sound out works

@crsv7armhl 6 ай бұрын

I have two of those, one running manjaro and one running arch. It takes some doing to setup the keyboard hotkeys (brightness) but after everything works fine. I specifically search Samsung Chromebook 3's out. Cant beat $40 for 4GB of ram and linux for specific projects.

@RealJonDoe Жыл бұрын

Honestly, the real value in these devices is similar to both the Raspberry Pi or the One Laptop Per Child Project. In developing nations, something so simple to us, with a good Linux install, can be the difference between reading and illiteracy. I work with a non-profit that does just that, providing one machine as a server, and many cheaper machines as clients to allow access to educational resources that would otherwise be unobtainable, in an area that lacks the very prospect of reliable internet connectivity.

@matthews4159 Жыл бұрын

One Laptop Per Child ,,,, its a pity about that,, an opportunity lost

@electricwalden8964 6 ай бұрын

Cool! What's the server OS/config? Is it basically just sharing folders?

@RealJonDoe 6 ай бұрын

@@electricwalden8964 The current build is working on Debian, with Kolibri and Kiwix serving web applications, as well as HTTP folder access to extra files. Older builds used Gallium, but with a lack of support, it's best practices to switch, in case these machines do make it to the internet in the future.

@NickABQQm Жыл бұрын

I had my $100 Chromebook as a travel laptop for 4 years. I don't run programs on it, I use it to remote my PC at home. Low-end Chromebook from 2018 on itself take like 20-30sec to load 2000+ rows Google Sheets. KZfaq/Twitch works well in 30fps, mine has a framedrops streaming 60fps videos

@karolz8377 Жыл бұрын

I also have ThinkPad 11e Chromebook, but the 3rd gen. I have installed Windows 10 on it and it works surprisingly well, although 16 GB it’s not a lot of disk space and without SD card it’s almost impossible to use it on a daily basis

@sfatini7097 5 ай бұрын

Can you share any references do this ?

@DiamondDepthYT 9 ай бұрын

I have a Chromebook from my brother's middle school still laying around. It's from when he was in 8th grade, and because we went into COVID at that time, we never returned the Chromebook to the school. I'm thinking of doing some simple touch ups to it and giving it to my grandmother, who currently uses an over complicated windows 11 laptop that best buy recommended to her (all she does is browse Facebook and play basic mobile games like slot machines).

@FlameSoulis Жыл бұрын

Lately I've been noticing many 2 in 1 laptops, Chromebooks or otherwise, have been suddenly going for low prices in the used market. I recently refurbed a Dell 5290 for about $130, and with a full LInux install, it's super performant, minus the stylus not pairing right. I mostly use it as an advanced Chromebook with higher flexibility.

@silvy7394 6 ай бұрын

Its cuz nobody wants that linux trash. I used to work at a computer recycle plant and the chromebooks went for dirt cheap because nobody wanted them. At one point we even started installing Windows on some, but decided it wasnt worth the time in the long run with all the devices we got daily.

@pptemplar5840 6 ай бұрын

@@silvy7394Why would you ever put Windows on a Chromebook? Yeah, maybe it's more marketable but you're basically just turning something that's cheap into something that's still cheap but worse to use.

@silvy7394 6 ай бұрын

@@pptemplar5840 I mean you either have a linux OS thats useless, or Windows which is vastly more capable. 2GB of RAM and todays dual cores are more than enough to run 10 smoothly.

@TylerFurrison 6 ай бұрын

Only if you're running 32-bit Windows, will 2 GB be fine. Plus, the laptops on the used market are usually several years old.@@silvy7394

@NotTheGaslighter 14 күн бұрын

@@silvy7394 what's so useless about Linux?

@daveh4914 8 ай бұрын

I never messed with them before, but it seems there are a metric buttload of old chromebooks out there. Once they get to their last update, I guess schools or whoever are just selling them off in bulk. I bought a couple Dell chromebooks for around 40-50 each including the shipping. They are still quite usable.

@FrostWolfve Жыл бұрын

Did you try to test that chromebook with FydeOS??

@MattyzTech Жыл бұрын

Tiny11 but for chromebooks

@techmatt997 Жыл бұрын

great video amazing content ! keep it up :)

@CrocoDylianVT Жыл бұрын

for basic use is useful, specially for such low price, I already have a pretty powerful game desktop at home, so a cheap portable one is useful for uni works and study

@robertfurr4678 6 ай бұрын

In middle school we were given a later model version of these 11e Chromebooks that had USB-C charging instead of the Lenovo proprietary charging port. I keep forgetting how thick they are especially compared to more modern devices like my Latitude 5490.

@theloosetrigger4514 Жыл бұрын

This is kinda the best I can do, these are pretty great for when money's super tight.

@DaMu24 8 ай бұрын

If this laptop was offline by default with only online connections for syncing remote files, it's really damn good for $25. Hence, only reason why it's worthwhile to try a custom Linux OS, because as long as the display and keyboard drivers work, you'd only get the same limited features as-is with the outdated Chrome OS, possibly more, but very rarely a brick.

@garagemancave666 Жыл бұрын

I scored a refurbed HP chromebook for 50 bucks from woot, removed the internal write protect screw and installed galliumOS. System runs so much smoother and has consistent updates. Makes a perfect burner laptop!

@antoarre Жыл бұрын

GalliumOS is no longer being developed/supported. I would recommend looking for another solution that includes up-to-date security and bug fixes, unless you are keeping GalliumOS updated yourself. If you are, then more power to you. I tried that myself, but couldn't hack it :-)

@escapetherace1943 2 ай бұрын

@@antoarre yup he should move to arch or arch-based or debian 12 or mint

@antoarre 2 ай бұрын

@@escapetherace1943 I went with Manjaro on my Chrome book. I haven't had the time to sort out the "top row" buttons, but it is on my todo list 😄

@seth-blank Жыл бұрын

Been meaning to buy one of these for a lubuntu programming laptop, dont need super high specs so a used chromebook is perfect. Love these vids though

@JoeCole_social 6 ай бұрын

Linux Mint would run well on this. Worth the investment if you can continue to find hardware in the sub $50 range. A superb netbook.

@entryofemotion12 7 ай бұрын

Back when Chromebooks were still catching on, I remember looking around and finding work arounds to FORCE install newer versions of ChromeOS onto systems that didn't exactly support them, and it wasn't too much work. I'm curious if that's still something that's possible to do so that you COULD use Chrome to do more, and you could get access to the Play Store. Especially now that Android has become usable on Windows(With some stuff you can do to access the Play Store) and things like the Google Play Games beta ALSO exist on Windows. I of course don't expect Windows to be doable, But I do wonder if there's any chance of turning something like this into an older Windows system, like XP or something like that.

@LovelyAlanna 7 ай бұрын

I had that computer but the windows version, I used to like it a lot, so I bought one that looked just like it, the yoga 11e that I remembered, but I got the exact model wrong and got the 11e 3rd gen, which has a skylake based pentium processor, vulkan support and everything, and it used an m.2 sata drive, it's waaaaay better than the original in this video, no joke, I like it even more, looks the same as the one I remember and is way more powerful than the one I had

@soucouyant Жыл бұрын

man, I was hoping to see you mod it. But thanks .....finding a way to give these older chromebooks new life can really save some E-waste. thanks again

@youzernejm Жыл бұрын

I'd definitely love a vid with Gallium instalation. Google is really incredible with their lack of support for older hardware. If at least they didn't lock it down the way they do. This way, old chromebooks often become chromebricks.

@sihamhamda47 Жыл бұрын

Yeah it's weird, while most Linux distro could run and update itself just fine until at least 10 years, Chrome OS only has average support time of 5 years

@RealJonDoe Жыл бұрын

There are multiple reasons to drop official support after a time, the most common being inability to obtain an ongoing stream of parts. Individual chips simply become harder and harder to get unless an ongoing supply has been arranged and stored ahead of time. With the newer chromebooks, this is being done, and with the older chromebooks, the information to move them to linux is, at least for the intel-based machines, is available and utilized by many. For the ARM-based machines, once they have reached end-of-life, (EOL) they are mostly useful for clients, but guest mode leaves that available, especially in non-internet environments, where security is built on the air gap from the outside world.

@youzernejm Жыл бұрын

So basically, we should be fine with engineered obsolescence? Or making it unfixable on purpose? I've seen plenty of windows computers made over 10 years ago that work perfectly fine, fixed some too. There wasn't that much of a problem to find a replacement part. While Windows 11 doesn't officially support older computers, installing it isn't that hard - you'll still get security updates regularly, and we're not happy with that solution. Installing Linux on it is a breeze, maybe you'll have to disable secure boot if you want a smaller distro at most. An expensive pixel chromebook will, on the other hand, get 5 years of updates in total. After that, hope you'll have a way to install Linux. Even that isn't for everyone. Not every Intel based model can be unlocked. If it can, it's not a simple process. As for arm based models, what do you do with a device that has pretty much nothing but a browser, yet can't go online? Use it as a paper weight?

@RealJonDoe Жыл бұрын

@@youzernejm Stopping support does not mean they are completely obsolete, just that they are no longer updated by Google. Any of those not upgradable still have a browser, and can be used as client machines in offline networks. I fix these things all the time, sadly, there is a point where this is unreasonable, such as when whole machines are still available for $20-25 in bulk.

@youzernejm Жыл бұрын

@@RealJonDoe we are talking edge cases now, where you would have to run in house offline web server with software set up just for your usage. That's something most businesses would prefer a bit less hacky route. Any sbc computer could do a more efficient job. If you need a bit more power, there are great embedded solutions. Making a whole network with no Internet access and a web server just for these machines though, it's just too much of a hack job for most business cases. As for that $20-25 price tag, would they really be that cheap if they had security and chrome updates? Even if Americans wouldn't pay more, there are always poor markets like mine. They would end up getting dumped here. Our prices are significantly higher for old used tech - as long as it actually works. As far as average person is concerned, these don't.

@alinoumiere3122 7 ай бұрын

hi i see your video i have the same laptop i removed the protection screw then i installed windows 10 normally But i am running into a problem that the storage is so small 16 gig is so low the question is there any solution to install the windows on SSD without any cable outside the laptop without losing anyharddisk speed since this laptop comes with no sata cable???

@JanJanJanJanJanJanJanJanJan2 Жыл бұрын

Could you PLEASE solve that Rubik's cube on your desk. It's driving me insane.

@coolcars302 11 ай бұрын

I use my old Chromebook just for work purposes works pretty good

@Echo_Sierra 6 ай бұрын

Had you done further research, you'd find out that the plate that looked like a 2.5" bay in fact IS a 2.5" bay albeit with no SATA cable. The Yoga 11e is the Chromebook version of the Thinkpad 11e laptop that came before it, which ran windows (poorly). The internals are almost all the same, except with the full laptop version, there is a 2.5" bay, a RAM slot, and the keyboard has the standard windows layout instead of the Chromebook layout which lacks a Windows key (hence the large CTRL and ALT keys). Linux works OK on this device, but I haven't been able to find any distro of Linux or drivers that's able to detect the fan, so it will run hot on Linux.

@richobrien3417 6 ай бұрын

I bought a Chromebook, returned it and will never buy another because chrome books have no DELETE key.

@lancerdeltarune Жыл бұрын

got an acer chromebook tablet thing for about $45. was supported until january 1st this year.

@user-um6hb9bd3y Жыл бұрын

good usage might be a small little server for small applications

@leonidas14775 6 ай бұрын

There's not much point in buying an old chromebook unless you're going to bios-mod it and install another operating system. Most of that process is automated by scripts you can find online. So if you can follow guides for removing a write protect screw, holding key combinations at startup, and typing commands in a terminal, its doable

@haydenc2742 Жыл бұрын

I would throw a variant of linux on it...otherwise you open yourself up for issues with hacks and whatnot Might even been a cyanogenmod firmware for it out there

@georgeboyd4172 Жыл бұрын

i bought one of these iap top 28.99 it's meade by lenovo and called n42 touch it works great i have on probaim with it but i do have to get use to the touchscreen and not haveing a cd player on it when my laptop came it was nice and clean like new but i did notic that they wrap the computer in carbon fiber to hide the school that came from i don;t how old it is but it still working for me i do avriged computing.

@batto271 Ай бұрын

Hey @techbymatt any ideas to reporpouse and old Chromebook Acer C720? battery is dead only works with power adapter and it has 4gb ram and 20gb ssd.

@igorschmidlapp6987 6 ай бұрын

Chromebooks are basically what we used to call netbooks...

@gersoncampos2783 Жыл бұрын

I have an Acer c710 that has a slower processor and only had 2gb ram and 16gb SSD. I upgraded ram to 16gb and SSD to 240. I am currently running Chrome os flex but have been able to run win 10 and Ubuntu with no problem at all even with an Intel 1007u CPU.

@thelonercoder5816 Жыл бұрын

I'm not surprised theyre that cheap. I've seen cheap $80-120 laptops at electronic stores.. In alot of cases, these chrome laptops are on par with modern android tablets.

@rustkitty 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, a lot of school chromebooks get periodically replaced so it's a steady supply of obsolete machines. Probably great for any projects you'd use a Raspberry Pi for were form factor isn't a concern. Sadly it's pretty much only a US thing so for everywhere else in the world the shipping cost ruins the deal.

@corvusaflame713 Жыл бұрын

I was hoping I could install proxmox to run a battery backed up HomeAssistant server... It wouldn't load the image even after I patched it to allow custom uefi. :,/

@STEVieLOL3 Жыл бұрын

Is it okay to install custom OS onto it? like windows 10? cause the specs is promising i supposed at least

@surferbrg Жыл бұрын

I miss my old Chromebook. I use to have an Acer one I paid $120 for it brand new. But ended up letting it go after I got a message saying there are no longer going to be updates for that model by certain date. So sometimes I question shelf life of them and only use I had was for basics stuff.

@ilovewall.e Жыл бұрын

You could've installed Linux or Windows on it

@egbront1506 7 ай бұрын

ChromeOS Flex is what you install when support ends. You won't even notice the difference from ChromeOS as it is pretty much identical. You will need to open up your Chromebook and remove a security screw or something similar in order to root your device. Still using my 2014 Toshiba Chromebook and it handles the latest release like a champ. Updates are very frequent.

@richardcutts196 3 ай бұрын

The listing shown at 00:14 shows a chromebook with play store for $25.59 with free shipping. I take it you didn't buy that one for some reason.

@hugejazz2737 8 ай бұрын

I have this exact laptop except it's not a Chromebook. It's a Windows machine and it also has the ethernet port unblocked. It also has a a SSD and non-soldered ram that is actually removable.

@mysteriomonkie 6 ай бұрын

For $25 you can get a much more modern 2nd hand chromebook than that atm. They just don't hold value the moment they hit the 2nd hand market, and they are a totally different beast these days in terms of storage, support and specs. You can't do loads of gaming on them, but you can do proper office work on them and retro game emulation. My last one was an ideapad 5 14ITL6 at $20, which is still currently available to buy new. I'm assuming resellers are flooded with them and getting them sold on quickly is more profitable than hanging onto them for ages to get a better price

@angelstrife Жыл бұрын

you should do a video flashing it with chrome os flex!

@Seven71987 Жыл бұрын

I need to buy it!

@CommanderMouse72 6 ай бұрын

there was a windows version of the yoga 11e that did have a SATA drive, hence that spacer

@jackwilson5542 6 ай бұрын

That held up pretty good compared to an old Windows laptop (from 2016, for $400- Atom x8350, 4GB of RAM, 128 GB of EMC storage, 1080p touchscreen) I have. Up until recently I used it to print documents as I forgot the printer password. That being said it is totally unusable as of today. The computer takes 10 minutes to boot up, due to flash storage rot and the machine barely works. Last time I turned it on I literally wanted to throw it against the wall. I need to hack the printer on my newer laptop/gaming PC.

@matthews4159 Жыл бұрын

... before you by any Chromebook ... always check "Auto Update policy" most last 5 to 8 years,, if its out of its policy it will not be receiving os or security updates and since you can buy refurbished in policy machines with a few years still avilable its not worth getting out of policy machines....

@agactual2 Ай бұрын

I think i bought the same model of Chromebook that came from the same school. It has the same etched logo thats scratched out on the lid.

@lastinline1958 7 ай бұрын

Since that is an Intel CPU, you can reflash the firmware and install any distro of Linux you want. I did, and now I have a fully functional laptop.

@On_the_Ron Жыл бұрын

NICE!

@LupinxJigenTTV 6 ай бұрын

Things a beast compared to the Acer my Mom gave me after she got a new one. 1GB of ram with Vista, Linux saved that thing. Ya get what you pay for, throw something like puppylinux on there and it is gonna be a good time. Also awesome FreeDOS machine I bet.

@jameswest6161 3 ай бұрын

I haven't played with cromebooks much but have played with there cousin android some, the fact you don't have the play store makes me wonder if A removed by the school tho i think is unlikely because you reset it, maybe there's something in the bios disabled. or B if its hidden somewhere also can you come back to this cromebook and activate the Linux capabilities through cromeos??? i would love to see what happens. or even try and install play store throught an apk or something

@duck_mangrove Ай бұрын

You can definitely get a newer model that supports the latest chrome os for that price, maybe not the best condition tho

@David_Quinn_Photography 11 ай бұрын

hey if you want to tinker with this device some more, look up guides on how to install any Linux distro you want on it I bet someone has already done it for this laptop considering it's 10 years old at this point, it won't be much better but at least you can run Crunchy roll now. so far of the Chromebooks, I have converted its as easy as undoing some special screw and running some firmware that cracks it so it gets a BIOS to allow you to install it and so far I have noticed Mint works the best, Ubuntu and its lighter versions like Kununtu, Xubuntu, and Lubuntu don't run or run very poorly.

@mraidymaddful 6 ай бұрын

Maybe cleaning the screen might be a good start. You will probably gain a few pixels by cleaning it.

@thakillers Жыл бұрын

Why didnt you use Google Flex to update your os?

@chrisdavis8625 Жыл бұрын

Loved the review. Except I paid $70 😢 Still cannot get the touchscreen to function after all available updates.

@strayiggytv 3 күн бұрын

I bought a 500e off mercari for $50 and use it daily as a Google docs only machine. Its battery life is wild thanks to its kind of crappy yet low power screen. Honestly ill miss it when it finally dies. Its been a workhorse.

@ThatDroid Жыл бұрын

Most chromebooks or emmc laptops have a higher end version, hence why it had a caddy for a ssd/hdd.

@nhansgoofyvideos7581 Жыл бұрын

For 40$ in mid-March I got a Lenovo Chromebook 300E gen 1 MTK. It has much more modern ports, and still getting updates. I would say for chromebook, the bottom-of-the-barrel approach might not be the best.

@johnpinion8033 Жыл бұрын

I have one, and it's nice with ChromeOS, however, the mediatek arm processor is generally unsupported by the linux distros (the celeron on his thinkpad will boot almost any linux version), so it's pretty locked down as far as future use goes.

@nhansgoofyvideos7581 Жыл бұрын

@@johnpinion8033 I would agree the part that the future of ARM Chromebook might be limited. Just a thought that the bottom of the barrel Chromebook, passed the AUE date is not the best value

@ilovewall.e Жыл бұрын

I got a 500e 1st gen for 40$ with a Celeron and it's good on Linux.

@catafest-work 5 ай бұрын

try to use with Fedora 39 Linux distro and sway desktop environment ... I think will works better !

@half-qilin Жыл бұрын

Wait, couldn’t you install Chrome OS Flex on it?

@bruces4515 6 ай бұрын

Could this be connected to a Rasberry Pi to be used as a monitor?

@LRJ4 Ай бұрын

I have a 2 - 4 year old hp chromebook and it can’t open google or anything without waiting 30 minutes and every click takes about 30 seconds to process

@WaltBankes Жыл бұрын

Please try installing Chrome Flex. I have tried it on several machines and was impressed. But I am leary about whether Google will allow it to be installed on old Chromebooks. I have not been able to find out if they will allow it and the answer to that question will greatly influence my future decisions about whether or not to buy another Chromebook. The one I have now, I like, but don't like the policy that in another year that machine will be sidelined due to no op sys updates and no access to more apps and updates. Thank you in advance for investigating that issue.

@AndrewMalcolmson 9 ай бұрын

ChromeOS Flex will install on Chromebook but requires a UEFI firmware flash first.

@egbront1506 7 ай бұрын

I did it on a Toshiba CB30 I was gifted. The trickiest thing was rooting the device by scraping off a foil connector inside. After that, just follow the nearest guide for your Chromebook as to how to install ChromeOS Flex. Google doesn't support it and there is a chance that some hardware on your device will not be work. Sound stopped working for mine but it's no biggie as a small USB sound dongle works just fine when needed.

@silvy7394 6 ай бұрын

Wonder how possible it would be to sideload chromeOS flex instead of Linux

@AlexBoneChannel Жыл бұрын

You are better off saving up another 10-20 bucks buying a 1th, 2th, 3rd or 4th gen core i3 or i5 laptop with SSD for only a few dollars more with Windows 10 then buy a chromebook with an outdated OS. I saw a i3 380M laptop with Win10, 6GB of DDR3 and 128GB SATA SSD for $30

@quisqueyanguy120 Жыл бұрын

True but the only remarkable of this thing is that is $25

@ilovewall.e Жыл бұрын

Absolutely but you miss the portability, 2 in one, and battery life. Although it will be significantly faster. I wouldn't recommend anybody first gen Intel I processors though

@AlexBoneChannel Жыл бұрын

@@ilovewall.e The reason that this chromebook is $25 is that it runs on outdated software and it is a Chromebook. It is so old you cannot run any android apps so what are you realistically going to do with that touchscreen exept scroll up and down in an outdated and unsafe version of Google Chrome?

@neurobioboy 6 ай бұрын

Cool video! I think to me this might be useful to play music from an usb stick while I tinker and renovate my old country side house without internet access yet. If I damage it, I would not care. If I loose it I will not care. If I forget it there I would not mind. Basically just a glorified jukebox with an cheap Bluetooth speaker. ^^

@MrJ0mmy Жыл бұрын

i have one of these lubuntu runs great on it

@marksmith9566 6 ай бұрын

Current Chrome is 119. For $75, you can get one with a couple of years of updates.

@awesomeiphone597 Жыл бұрын

I wonder how well ChromeOS Flex would work on that

@matthews4159 Жыл бұрын

im not sure you can install anything like that on a chromebook

@IcyNylon Жыл бұрын

@@matthews4159 ChromeOS Flex is just ChromeOS but for older and less powerful computers.

@egbront1506 7 ай бұрын

@@matthews4159 I installed it on my Chromebook when support ended.

@AlbertoXP35 6 ай бұрын

I like how the Chromebook are all locked and when not supported it becomes e waste

@cheapme1850 Жыл бұрын

When you can get old MacBooks for $50, easily upgradable with OpenCore, this doesn’t seem like a prudent option.

@fyom 6 ай бұрын

Have one of these that is also expired. You're better off getting a refurbished Windows Thinkpad and installing ChromeOS Flex.

@penboyasgod6103 Жыл бұрын

Is a $25 Chromebook Worth It? Hell yes. It's fine at least for writers and simplistic worksheets as well as simple graphics. Besides, you can always toss out the "chrome" and install a decent and more useful Linux.

@eterncr1462 Жыл бұрын

i have on old Acer C720 from like 2013 and I have managed to get it on the latest version of ChromeOS. I installed a custom BIOS using the Mrchromebox tool, so it functions like a normal laptop then I installed ChromeOS Flex on it, and it still works great even though it only has 2gb of ram. it was also fairly easy to do.

@dantheman1998 9 ай бұрын

I loved that laptop and would still be rocking it if I didn't drop it and shatter the screen

@electricwalden8964 6 ай бұрын

@@dantheman1998 Good news! There're a bajillion of 'em out there. :)

@ebodaman Жыл бұрын

Picked up a nice Dell Chromebook 3400 for $20 dollars at my local flea market.

@sunbeast68 6 ай бұрын

since the os is from 2019, you could try to play flash games

@raikoh05 Жыл бұрын

Might be able to install a newer version of chrome os. Would like to see more videos on this exploring the potential

@daytimerocker3808 Жыл бұрын

how do people even sell thing like that on ebay and make money? after 13% ebay takes and 10 dollar shipping do they make like 5 bucks?

@RealJonDoe Жыл бұрын

When they are getting them for $2 apiece by the pallet, in bulk, it adds up.

@IAmStillNotMatthew 4 ай бұрын

On the note of the Thinkpad logo, there is an IT store in the city near that makes ~10% of its income by selling badges removed from laptops and PCs. Yeah, they don't make much money.

@IanC14 6 ай бұрын

I wonder if that chassis is used for other devices from that time, hence the faux drive bay?

@CommanderMouse72 6 ай бұрын

yep the 11e windows version

@nickreec Жыл бұрын

Somehow you know I'm just running normal old come os my system still takes up 11 gigabytes on my 32 gigabyte model no idea why but since I'm 10 I Have to live with it This is my laptop that my dad got me Chromebook 11A Still get security updates for 8 more years at least

@qwertykeyboard5901 Жыл бұрын

Looks like that trackpad is _social distancing itself_ from the body of the laptop.

@lisagibson2975 Жыл бұрын

*bum bum tiss* :D

@qwertykeyboard5901 Жыл бұрын

@@lisagibson2975 You can thank Shango066 for that one. I didn't come up with it.

@bryankeller3492 Жыл бұрын

Why didn't you consider upgrading the sd drive while you were in it? A 64gb or 128gb?

@richardcutts196 5 ай бұрын

For the last roughly 10 years, almost all chromebooks have their ram and storage soldered on. You can still find some really old chromebooks with upgradeable ram and storage but they are very rare and very old.

@singlehorn2520 5 ай бұрын

I don’t know meant, an iPad or android tablet might be a better performer (minus keyboard/mouse) for the simple tasks that chromebooks are designed to do.