I Bought A New Laptop For Less Than $100...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ก.ย. 2022
- I bought this Lenovo Chromebook on sale for less than US$100. Links below!
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Lenovo likes hiding screws under the glued on feet at the bottom of the laptop. That's probably why you couldn't get it open lol.
Same with HP.
Every manufacturer does that!
@@ernstoud And almost all laptops are also having warranty stickers covering one of the screws, so it's preventing any possible upgrades without voiding the warranty, especially in the laptop that's offering fully upgradable RAM and storage slot
@@ernstoud not asus
At least it has screws ,Microsoft
"This laptop puts out less warmth than the soul of an Nvidia exec".
Holy FUCK that was savage
It made me thankful I was not taking a big gulp from some drink before that line. Pure gold and timing (relative to today's date) impeccable.
I was literally about to comment the same thing.... fucking savage
GOTTEM!
I was hanging out, almost not listening with this in the background doing two things at once and was like, DAYUM. 🤣😂🤣
Love the shade
Reminds me of my Lenovo 100e, those were selling for $99 in 2019. Wasn't fast but it sure did the job and survived everything. Sat in a car for 8 months through both summer and winter, got thrown around, went with me on several road trips and plane rides, got dropped pretty hard from a good height. Only broke when someone ran it over with a car 3 years after I got it.
Can't really complain for $99
do you play catch with your laptop dude
how did it got ran over wtf
i'm reading this with a 100e
I recently bought a 100e for around $70 after taxes. It's a good chromebook if you have extra storage with it and if you don't overload the memory.
what on God's green earth kind of torture have you been putting that poor laptop through?
Wait a touch screen for a $100. That's actually insane. This is so worth it
And just where the fuck did he get it for 100$, on every retailer or even their website it's above 400.
yeah it is of no use you can get a normal laptop from dell or hp for 300$ which will last you very long
@@moonlaid2689 Dell sucks in the Us, and Canada... and South Korea... And well, everywhere to be honest lol. Never buy a dell or alien-ware made PC, their practically a waste of money.
HP is actually really really good, their gaming laptops like the Pavilion 15 gaming laptop is AMAZING value for the money spent, I've had mine for almost 3 years and it still fast and good or gaming.
Weather you get a laptop, desktop, HP or another brand make sure you pick out one that has a CPU made by AMD. Intel made CPU's are slower, run hotter, and as a result of running hotter they will slow down and die sooner. Avoid newer Intel's if you can, ESPECIALLY if your looking for a laptop.
@@moonlaid2689 India itself sucks
@@RefractArt thats for the one with windows this ones a chromebook
The impressive thing is that it comes with both a keyboard and a touch screen and it is easily turned into a tablet by flipping. Those features alone would probably inflate a macbook's price for about a kidney and half a liver.
I mean a MacBook is also 40x more powerful and runs a real os so it’s price makes sense
real os is debatable 🤣. I use one for work and it's annoying af
@@DerpyUniverse Well I miss the feeling of carrying a nokia 3310, if you know what I mean.
@@TerminalHeatSink better than using an os where you have to use a web browser for everything
What’s the laptop called
the sarcasm is why i stick around......your entertaining entertainment is why i love this channel
His entertaining entertainment is very entertainy..
"your entertaining entertainment"
Damn, that's actually pretty cool. I wouldn't have a reason to buy one of these now of course, but if this existed at this price back when I was in middle school, I would have been one happy kid.
im using the laptop as I watch the vid
Damn, $99 chromebooks have gotten way better than 5 years ago when I got one! Mine was a 10 inch screen, keyboard that felt bad, touchpad that felt bad, no touchscreen, no tablet mode, etc...
Yeah my first one back in 2018 was the Acer R13 which was already "affordably premium" for the price.
But not a total surprise given how Chromebook marketshare is growing even faster than Macbooks. 👌
arm is doing good things to Chromebooks. they can put more money in better components because the cpu and SOC is more "cheap"
@@HQbaracuda the good old Asus. i have a aspire one netbook rocking antix Linux. works pretty well
@@diegomillan2806 I think you mean Acer, not Asus.
lots more competition
For the issue disassembling it, there are screws under the rubber feet strips. I found that in a HP laptop and it gave me a run for my money.
I have a slightly older Celeron-based Lenovo Chromebook very similar to this. One of the first things I did was set up the built-in linux VM and get Shovel Knight running in Steam. It was 100% playable, which might not SOUND impressive, but you have to remember that it's a 2D game using cleverly hidden 3D assets. I'm amazed that it even launched in that environment. On top of that, it had 4k60hz video out over USB-C on BOTH PORTS.
Find the right chromebook and you have yourself a very capable little box for light tinkering, media playback and probably even linux server applications. Not a bad alternative to a raspberry pi considering their current asking price.
bro when i was 11 (I think) I just used crouton for a linux chroot to play minecraft. That was 7 ish years ago.
wait with celeron? i have ideapad duet 3 with celeron but for daily taksts and you tube works horoble how is possible to have better performance in android?
@@ototurmanidze5578 the web takes much more ram due to it being for all purposes. Android apps are closer to native performance.
do not underestimate the celerons, i was playing 60fps oblivion with those 6 years ago
@@ototurmanidze5578 the problem is Windows. Too much processing is used for bloatware inside the system
I actually bought that laptop and took it with me on a business trip. I only needed it to do web based invoice type stuff and it did well. It runs similar to my Lenovo Duet, I believe it's a similar if not the same processor.
Hey guys I just bought this exact model, the delivery came 30 mins ago.
First of the screen is much brighter than I expected, hell only slightly less bright than my 13 mini. Viewing angle is phenomenal.
The keyboard and touchpad feels extremely good.
The built quality is superb on every inches.
Now it’s updating, I’ll let you know about the day to day performance and speakers once it’s done.
Bought it for $210 not $100 but still is a bargain.
Speakers are nothing to write home about but plenty loud and very very decent.
For day to day task it’s just a little bit sluggish but very doable. As long as I can use Canva it’s good.
The only gripe is it’s a lil bit on the heavy side, still comfortable tho.
Overall, 11/10 for the price.
is it laggy and all?
@@andrewjiaxinchen4925 for what I do I would say not really, I do very simple tasks like browsing, watching TH-cam, Netflix, sometimes editing on Canva etc. It’s by no mean fast but it’s not laggy. One advice is: use the TH-cam app but the web Netflix. Using TH-cam app is much snappier but Netflix app has worse video quality.
Were you able to find an active stylus that works with it?
@@sruthi2708 unfortunately it doesn’t have pen support.
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@@DanxoBlade based
I've been using Lenovos for about 10 years. I love them. The keyboards are fantastic, build quality is good, and they last forever. I still fire up my 2400 dollar think pad from 2014 sometimes and it honestly still works just fine.
LOL 0:08 SuperGary69 with a GT710 profile pic. Its these little bits I love. Keep up the great work.
I worked fixing chromebooks in highschool and sometimes it is common for the keyboard to open as opposed ti the back (making for easy keyboard/track pad replacements) maybe that's why you weren't able to access it?
I have the same laptop with an Intel celeron in it, and the thing is passively cooled! I bought it in India, and it was ₹25k (roughly $312).
whats the name of the laptop
@@speedyplays9413 Lenovo Flex 3 Chromebook
Fucking scam
I was able to score a 17" Chromebook for about $100 from Best Buy on a liquidation sale. It's not bad for the money.
Lenovo's Thought-Pad laptops (Thinkpad, Ideapad, etc.) are great machines though they always seem to lack in certain areas and excel in others, most of the time it's budget CPU and GPU options for obvious reasons assorted in with great features like the keyboard or camera quality. The Thought-pads that are equipped with something like a Duo Core or Celeron and running integrated graphics are usable but I wish that basic models just had a little more to offer sometimes.
Any ThinkPad basic model nowadays (2017+) is decent. Source: Someone who owns a thinkpad 💀
The only thing I would advise staying away from is the ideapads, they're usually terrible
@@naxzed_it Yes, I agree although I've never used an IdeaPad to find out, I simply believed Lenovo kept the fundamentals of various ThinkPad models in spirit. I can also imagine that Lenovo takes the basic models more seriously since 2017. My thoughts from earlier were made by experience with used Brickpads built 2015 or older, I suppose it's safe to assume that older basic models don't have much offer anyways unless it had a faster processor, such as an i5 or i7.
Lenovo have by far the best build quality for the price, got an ideapad in 2019 for around £300 that was solid metal. You never find that at that price point! Dell and Lenovo are definitely the best in the field. They've had a long run of it I guess 😅
These are great computers for someone who doesnt need a computer to be super capable. I have a chromebook at my shop that I use to tune cars and motorcycles and I love it. I never think twice about touching my chromebook with dirty hands since it cost me a total of $45 brand new (on sale), and it does everything I need it to. I dont have excel or word or anything on it, just a few tuning programs and it works fantastic for the price.
chrom books don't have excel or word but the have alternatives pre installed
@@azexy21 untrue, office online, the docs-like web applet version of the Microsoft office suite is by now just as capable as the offline version and can easily be used on Chromebooks
All you need is WPS
@@bmona7550 I downloaded WPS a month or so after leaving this comment! Cheap laptops + WPS has been my go-to in the shop, im writing this comment from my Chromebook rn
"Fortnite. It's not a great gaming experience..." Dawid 2022
I've had my issues with Lenovo laptops in the past, but the keyboards are typically way better than similarly priced alternatives. Super subjective, but I think they do a great job there. Thanks for the video!
Subjective yes, I could not stand typing on the Lenovo L480 school laptop I had. Got fatigue instantly and couldn't finish even shorter hand-ins and had to do most work at home on my desktop after school.
Note that I used a 12 year old dell keyboard haha
That is crazy for $100. I'm always most interested in how Chromebooks could be made to run more useful OS's though :)
Search for galliumOS
Chromebooks really are great little laptops. I got a 14" 1080p model for under $250, and it's my go-to device for browsing the internet and watching youtube while lounging around the house/in bed.
At that price point Chromebooks just don't make any sense for me. As you can get a refurbished (condition good to even as good as new if you hunt) ThinkPad T470 with a i5-7400u, 8gb DDR4 RAM, 14 inch Full HD matt screen, 256gb NVMe SSD, a battery life of about 3-4 hours browsing and you get the ThinkPad experience of good amount of ports, a hot swappable battery (for 70-90$ you can easily get another 6-8 hours), good upgrade ability and the nice mouse knob thingy for typing without any interuption.
Reminds me of the netbooks back in the windows XP-Vista era. They were normally powered by the Intel atom and costed anywhere from $200-$400
You were mentioning about how with chromebooks it is possible to have such small power bricks, I have an ASUS Vivobook with an 11th gen i7, OLED and the power cord has a square at the end the plugs into the wall and nothing but a cord to go to my laptop. The laptop is a very nice one and is speced really good as well.
Less than a $100? What could go wrong? Ugh, a ChromeBook! Screws are probably under the rubber bumper.
I went from watching a LTT video about one of the most powerful laptops available on the market today...
to this.
Not disappointed.
same lol
these low-tier education workhorses are the unsung heroes of the computer market
"it does feel like we're gaming on a casio digital watch" that was a good savage comment about chromebooks
Fun fact, the emmc Lenovo likes to use is pretty infamous for cooking itself due to poor cooling so you have to replace the entire internal board. I have a Lenovo 14" chromebook on its 3rd board already showing signs its about ready to cook.
Maybe getting some kind of metal cooler on it will help? Some strip of copper or something glued down? A whacky job but maybe better than going through main boards continuously.
Any way to prevent that?
@@SayAhh buy a better chromebook i guess 🤷♂️
I know that this is a year old, but is every Lenovo like that? I'm going to buy a Lenovo LOQ and I do not want it combusting into flames when I launch half life 2
@@zerbutterftw don't get a chromebook, thats the only solution
I was slightly disappointed that you didn't try running Crysis on it, that would have been a useful benchmark.
Sorry to say, you used the wrong symbol in the thumbnail. Should have been ''
Hahaha!! Thank you for pointing that out. Will fix it now. 👍
Been 2 months 🗿
He didn't...
@@h_ass_an he did, but he fixed it so it's correct now
@@briti1543 sorry my bad
Wow, that's not bad at all. For kids for school or beginners this would be amazing. Honestly this would probably be great for my mom who's not great with tech.
Having ideapad in the past, it's definitely opens by taking keyboard off. Also running Asphalt 9 in tablet mode with tilt control is a nice workout for hands.
I just turned a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon into a Chromebook by installing Chrome OS Flex.
Intel i7 with 8gb ram, 250gb SSD.
I bought it on eBay for $350 Canadian and it runs like a $1000 premium Chromebook.
For about 3 years back when I was in high school, I used a 2GB ram 16GB emmc intel chromebook as my main device. Stuck Ubuntu on it and used to play counterstrike source all the time. If you get an intel model and take Chromeos off they make great netbooks.
This is an amazing value! Im watching this on the duet 5
One of the older variants of this made a MEAN Linux machine for some developers I know a few years back. If you're the type of weird who writes low-level hardware code and compiles stuff on servers... you can get insane battery life out of these on an extremely lightweight custom install!
My favourite video category: cheap hardware pushed to it's limits. Love you David 💕
My old laptop bricked so I sold it for parts and bought a X220 ThinkPad for £80, having 8gb of ram and a 128 GB SSD, it's quick! It's been many months and I've felt almost no need to upgrade from my "temporary solution", only upgrading the battery and adding a double-usb 3.0 express card (though the fact these are possible are advantages in themselves for a modern laptop!)
Wow , this Chromebook has the good (old) style of lid hinges that are vastly superior to nearly all (since 2007) modern laptops (incl. Macbooks) ... very impressive , it should be standard again
The size of it (And cost) kinda reminds me of the little Asus eee pc laptop I had years ago. Which weirdly enough was pretty cool, in my opinion despite it being pretty lacking in just about every other aspect ha.
I had one with XP on it. Terrible experience. But I wish I had it back to try me some Linux on it to see if I could make it useable.
I keep a cheap used Asus Chromebook I got like 5 years ago for nothing because it needed a battery (which actually was more expensive than expected). But I love having it for traveling for a wifi touchpad keyboard internet machine nobody will (want to)steal. It more than paid for itself after an airport flight mishap and I needed to find another flight asap in the terminal. Never could have done that on a phone- AND the battery life is phenomenal I guess because the CPU/iGPU so weak? Is it possible to install Linux on that and then Steam? Might be fun to try some old PC games that Steam now supports on Linux.
If it's intel or AMD then sure. The steamdeck has made the linux/steam combo a lot more compatible fairly quickly.
the eMMC storage will hold most chromebooks back and gives them a fairly short lifespan if the storage gets used much tho.
I got a Chromebook a long time ago and recently dug it out and I kind of like the feel of the keys. It’s kind of satisfying to type on.
As always, great video Dawid! I actually bought this laptop after this video posted. It is a great little Chromebook. Replaces my 7 yr old laptop with 1 hour battery life. This thing seems to last a long time.
I dont recall seeing it in the video, this is a Lenovo Flex 3 Chromebook, Best Buy near me has them for $119, marked down from $179. Not a bad deal, but the screen resolution is 1366 x 768 (HD), not ideal, but at this price who cares?? Would be fine for watching Dawid videos, but I cannot imagine trying to do any gaming on this. Would be a real steal if it had a 1080 display.
thank you!
The chip used in the laptop is in fact by Mediatek, who have been existed for a while on laptops now, mostly Chromebook
Do you know which model is this?
This video really helped me. Thank you very much!!!
I grabbed this a month or so ago from Best Buy and love it - it handles a decent amount of Android games well and the screen is tremendous given the price point and how garbo a lot of cheap Chromebook screens are.
IDK how there are people that don't get the sarcasm; I'm autistic and even *I* get it.
Most autistic people are very intelligent. Consider how stupid the average "normal" person is... and then consider that half of them are even dumber than that!
I bought a brand new Lenovo chrome book a few months ago for $70 bucks. I use it to play stadia games. I attached an usb game pad and works pretty nice.
Well good luck with that because Stadia is shutting down. Lol. Another failed Google product to add to the list. You can get refunds for any games you purchased thou so there is that.
@@ScaryClown338 yup unfortunately… I will see if my game data can be export it so I don’t have to start from cero in another platform
They have had some screaming deals. I got my father a 15.6" CB from BB during Back to School sales and it is great. $129 and runs like a champ for the basics that he does.
I then stepped up for a slightly better one with more ram, more storage and a 17.3" screen and it is great. Enabled linux, threw on VS Code, Thonny, and Geany for playing with front end dev as well as python and it works great too. That did cost me a whopping $189 down from $389 regular price.
Chromebooks are so great for most people and, less you are AAA gaming, likely all people less you need some specific app that won't run under a windows VM or doesn't have a linux version.
That one has too small of a screen for my use but it I was just road dogging it and needed to check in now and then with emails or update a spreadsheet or bang out a document, that would be pretty solid option for sure.
If someone was just a chrome user and does everything in chrome, they are the best machines. Lose it or it breaks simply go to Walmart, Best Buy, etc. buy another one turn it on, log in and within a few moments it will be setup just like the one that you just lost or broke. No trying to find install disks or some install file for a program you used. No settings to try to remember from your previous machine, etc. They all come over - part of the reason that I got my dad one.
Plus, if have a Windows, Mac, or Linux machine at home or in the office that you need to access for a program or work related emails that you don't forward you can use the Chrome Remote Desktop app. Works great and even when a machine at home gets reset from a forced windows update when you aren't home the Chrome RDT survives a full reset or power down and power up cycle. When you connect after a situation like that you just start off at the standard Windows Login screen (assume Mac and Linux are this way too). If you have your home or office PC's bios set to power back on after a power outage then you will never be without your other tools on your other computers. I've used my CB to tunnel into my home machine for 3D CAD work, coding, etc.
Just great tools and not really much you can do on them, especially with linux enabled. Well, that and don't quite go as low-end as this one if you want to play around with gaming or heavy programs in linux. But if you just need media access and emails or to connect to a home or office machine via remote connection - great way to go.
brings me back to when I had to unbox and enrol 55 of those exact ones for my School (I'm a student technician)
The cool thing with these cheap arm based machines is that they handle video codecs very well, which can't be said for most cheap x86 processors.
So for that alone it is a very interesting product for basically no money.
But 3x basically no money gets you a Laptop with Windows 10, upgradeabe 256gb SSD, upgradeable 8gb of ram, 15.5'' IPS display and a 5500U, which will hold up much longer and is much better to use out of the box. No touchscreen though
Man, that's basically a mobile phone in a laptop form factor.
Usually for ARM based Chromebook's you have to take out the keyboard to access the internals. Just a tip for the future.
that's a tech tip
I have a a 'convertable'? thingy too, it did cost me 170 EUR (incl. all taxes) and runs Win10Pro, touchscreen, 128GB 'ssd' and has Intel N6000 which is actually useable. Only downside it's limited by 4GB RAM. With 8GB I would consider using it. It's roughed and for the size 11"? Screen it feels heavy, has 2 USB-A, 1 USB-C, full HDMI and LAN io though. Its for some relatives and should work for them fine.
You can force most chromebooks to run linux, and they are surprisingly capable after that, though I've not tried linux on arm other than a raspberry pi.
Cool. I'm in the market for 2 new Chromebooks for 2 of my kids. I was thinking about ARM based because of Roblox. Going by your video that's a lot better than their current Celeron based Chromebooks.
Don’t go for chromebooks unless your budget is really tight or your kids need it for school. Celerons for gaming are really bad because it has terrible cpu bottlenecking. I would recommend a modern intel laptop for gaming or amd if you can get two for a good price. Spending a little more for a better 60 fps experience is better
@@Aceofspadez963 They're talking about kids... two of them. I doubt they're worried about getting a proper 60+ FPS experience and just going more for "It works well enough and doesn't cost an ARM and a leg".
This is copy of Acer Spin 1 from 4 years ago with unpromising MTK chip on unpromising OS. What a deal! Isnt it?
The best thing about this, is your awesome music track at the end. Where did you get that?
I'd buy it. My laptop is on it's last legs, I just paid $24 to get spare parts for an ancient chromebook to use as a backup and threw in linux.
I bought a 1070Ti and a Vega 64 for a combined price of 250€
Both are in good condition and the previous owner attached a Raijintek heatsink on the Vega 64.
Good cards for little money but that power usage is pretty high.
what AIB for vega?
dang that IS a pretty good price, 1070ti is a great card
The fact that this thing is just $99 makes you wonder about smartphone prices these days.
It's also way worse than most smartphones today
@@cckiller4378 fr chromebooks are shit
Tamper evident tape is designed to leave a mark on what its put on in a way that it cannot be easily opened without perminantly marking the tape that was used.
I love taking chromebooks and flashing coreboot onto it so I can run a minimal linux desktop for coding experiments and homelabs and website servers. there's a lot of cool stuff done on the chrultrabooks documentation for getting alternative software onto chromebooks. also depending on which model you get, you can upgrade the SSDs so it has a terabyte of storage and upgrade the ram to a 16gb. it might even be a good penetration testing laptop depending on how you use it.
SOooo..... Whats it called
Idk but link in description
Man, I love these types of videos 😂 haven't watched yet- but I know it's gunna be good Dawid style 👌 edit: I mean it's cheaper and runs emulators better than my £300 2015 macbook air I used for uni 😂 Gefore now is definitely the crutch for for chromebooks- which is great! :D (it would chug on that macbook air 😂)
I have this exact same chromebook but with a Celeron N4020, and it is decent for the price. I really enjoy using it on the go.
They gave these out in university at one point, but the tablet version with a detachable keyboard.
Hated these. but it was fun trying.
What kind of laptop is that
Chromebooks are phones with bigger screens and a keyboard. Would never call any chromebook a laptop lol
The hidden screws are under the grips, it prevents people from getting into it without kind of breaking it.
tamper evident tape is a tape that shows the surfaces marking when you peel it off so that you can't peel and put it back on without it being misaligned.
Yo dawid have you been starving yourself lately? You looking healthier. Keep it up!
Bestbuy does have a windows 10 HP laptop for $99 as well. Has the same specs (4Gb ram and 64gb emmc). It comes with windows 11 S, but can be switch to non s version easily. I bought one, a couple months ago. Not for gaming (unfortunately), but for work. It is decent.
What is the model?
@@Lp-ze1tg Lenovo Flex 3 Chromebook, about 120 usd on best buy
Fyi, there's screws under the keypad, it has to come off to get access. It's just clipped in around the keypad
Never thought about running a benchmark on the Chromebook. I have a Acer 314 with the same SoC. Running the benchmark sees slightly higher scores. Mainly in the CPU physics scores. In the GPU part of the test the CPU hardly gets above idle. The temperature went from 20°c to 22°c.
GForce Now probably runs well as the CPU performance is not to bad. It's the Mali-G72 MP3 that seems to be letting the side down. Petty they couldn't have added the MP18 varient in. It's was 3 years old by this point so no development costs really. Yes there would be a little extra chip costs and definitely power usage would be up but it's a Chromebook so nobody cares.
Ps. If you are traveling with your Chromebook and can charge it while it's off then leave the bulky charger at home and just use a standard phone charger.
I would highly recommend Tower of Fantasy as a game worth testing with, open world, flashy effects... should be more intensive for testing. Btw love you.
It's incredible how this costs only half the price of my phone.
damn this is 1/12th the price of my phone
Haha! That was entertaining! Very cute little Chromebook. I have an HP 14" CB and after you remove the screws from the back, then you turn it over and the top piece that surrounds the keyboard is the part that pops off. You have to use your little pry bits to crack it all around, but there will be a starting point somewhere. Maybe try again...or Google that specific device to see how it opens.
Oh, I just saw some of the other comments...about the hidden screws. Yes, I forgot about that...my CB also had a couple hidden under some rubber bits, but not the feet...there are a couple of small rubber bits just in the center that have to be removed to access more screws. Anyway...you probably don't care any more by now! Ha!
We got similar chromebooks in high school but with Intel CPUs and they actually got pretty hot if you were on a demanding website or if you were watching 1080p video which it could barely handle
I think if you can install Linux on it, you can consider it a laptop. Linux has box86 or (box64 if needed), you might be able to get some pc games running on it. Some work on raspberry pi.
Yeah, I would be curious to see this aspect visited.
And the internals are almost the same as an 800 dollar MacBook since their both RISC CPU based....
I mean, yeah they both have ARM CPUs. But comparing this low-end media tech chip to Apples ARM silicon offerings is like saying a 98 Honda Civic end of Bugatti Veyron are the same because they're both cars.
@@megan_alnico true but also not true, those Apple chips don't cost that much more to produce. Man thinking about, since they no longer need to kickback to intel but still sell for the same prices their margins went from ridiculous to stupendous, there is a harry potter joke in there somewhere but you get the gist
That exact model, the flex 3, is $180 on Best Buy’s website right now. Probably why you didn’t include a link in the description.
the link he did put in is broken😭😭
I have a Lenovo Flex 5 Chromebook and I love it. I also have a Lenovo ideapad PC with a DVD drive, it’s a little slow and I’m gonna upgrade the hard drive to a SSD, I was about to order the Lenovo M10+ tablet but I saw some reviews that there were problems with it freezing up. Well, I can say that their Chromebooks are pretty decent.
Chromebook is not laptop.
Stupid?
my laptop was 250euro
got an 45min battery
Gtx 1050 2gb
i5 8300h
keyboard with backlight
15inch ips screen
720p webcam
Solid bro but it costs tripple of the poor chromebook
It worked perfectly!!! Thank you so much
Just fairly recently bought locally a slightly used 14" HP laptop for a whole $50 US dollars. Specs of the laptop from the factory is Ryzen 3 3300U with Vega 6 GPU, 4GB of DDR4 RAM, 1TB HDD, Windows 10 Home.
Got it cheap cause the owner who had it dislike how darn slow it ran reason for that was the limited RAM it had. Ended up upgrading the memory in the laptop to 32GB and replaced the 1TB HDD with a SSD. Now the laptop boots up in 12 seconds and launches software quick. The best part yes the thing is capable of playing games at 60 FPS perhaps not triple AAA games.
4080ti laptop?
gg no reeee
Best advantage this laptop has is the touchscreen, and any small form factor laptop with such small keyboard/touchpad and very limited USB ports.
I’m thinking about getting this to just carry around the house. I have an older Lenovo flex with 1tb ssd, 16gb ddr4, it even has a graphics card that can handle all the way up to battlefield 4. I just want something with eternal battery life and portability
MacBooks don't cost $8,000 either. They only cost $6,000. I am very triggered that you said $8,000 because I have no sense of humor. reeeeeeeeeee
Yes, a Chromebook is a laptop. You can use them both online and offline now. You can download games, movies, documents and more. Its a device that sits on your lap and does computer things.
Chromebook: a Tool made for Tools
I got the Asus E410M from BestBuy for $99. It ran Windows 11 slowly, then turned it into a chromebook. Now it's well worth the money.
could probably get a bit more performance out of it, if you removed the back panel and placed a large fan under it.