I really wonder where Chromebooks are going with how well they are selling these days. I don't own one right now but I always have a soft spot for them, they make so much sense for so many people.
I’ve got one that I found for about 10 bucks and is one of the earliest to be compatible with the play store. It can’t even watch TH-cam at 1080p properly, but I still think they’re great little devices
The C710 is actually one of the most compatible Chromebooks when it comes to running Windows. So if you want Windows 10 (preferably ReviOS) then you can run it. On a Chromebook.
Though it wouldn't run great when you have a Celeron. Windows 10 seems to be one of the most bloated OSes out of the lot. Windows 7 often ran smoother than Windows 10 on the same hardware.
I have two of these. They are the most compatible for Windows because they were actually repurposed Windows laptops. Years ago I knew the exact Acer model for the Win version, but I've had mine since 2014 so...memory. Note that they actually have Windows keyboards too as opposed to Chromebook keyboards. DELETE key and CAPS LOCK key still on there. You'll not ever see another Chromebook to my knowledge with those buttons.
Thank you for showing that a old device can but still useful, I think that we must go back to having devices that can be updated , it is good for the environment
Sounds like an aberration. Vintage sounds like something worth collecting, keeping, and looking at. An old Chromebook tends to fall more into the despicable, useless junk category.
From watching this, it reminds me on how even old laptops can still do well with an SSD. I still have my old 2013 Thinkpad Edge with its I3-3110M and 4GB RAM and replacing the HDD, it actually does well. It obviously cant game, but for what I use it for, it does alright.
I'm watching this on an Acer C720 with upgraded SSD and Windows 10. Google stopped supporting it many years ago, but with Win10 it's still a decent netbook in 2021.
acer's a good brand, everyone in my family who's had one has had one has had a good experience with it, even my grandpa's and its from 2013 and still works fine.
I dont know why but your videos are so relaxing and interesting at the same time. Usually i dont watch tech videos till the very end, except ur vids! Thanks for entertaining me :D
I bought one of these recently and installed 8GB of ram as well as a 120GB ssd and windows 10. It makes it a nice portable windows device with good battery life.
Those case plastics gave me horrible flashbacks to my old Acer Aspire laptop which I think was around the same era. Brittle plastics and easily snapped parts were a plenty and I was so happy when I replaced it.
The first first laptop that i owned myself was a Chromebook, a thinkpad x131, that i eventually put linux on. It was about the same amount of upgradable. Anyway, great vid! :)
Our high school gave us these. Mine broke at least twice every year. It became such a problem that the school switched chromebook models to thinkpads for the all the kids that came into the school following us. I don’t miss that thing.
I own two of these C710's. I bought the first one in 2014, and upgraded it to 4GB. I never had a need to upgrade the drive since at that time I was dedicatedly using Google's online services. I used it until 2017 when I bought a CTL J5(?) which had a touchscreen. The C710 cost $199 at Walmart at that time. A couple years ago I dusted it off and gifted it to my dad who does only very simple online things with laptops. He liked it enough that about a year later he bought a new Chromebook of his own, so he returned the C710 to me. The second unit I bought for my wife as a birthday gift around 2016. She at first had no idea why I'd give her one...she didn't care at all about using laptops. But she's still using it today, unashamedly loves it, and it still performs just as quickly as it did when new. But the OS of course stopped updating in 2019 I believe. I never upgraded hers, so it has the original 2GB RAM. I bought hers refurbed from the Acer store for $99. A while back she somehow cracked her charger, so I gave her the one out of mine. The chargers are impossible to find now, but Acer fortunately used the same socket connection on many other laptop models so other different styles are compatible if I ever really need to get another charger. I too always really liked the upgradeability of these laptops. IIRC the next model after the C710, the C720, had soldered RAM and such, which was a bummer. One interesting thing about the Acer C710 is that the chassis was repurposed from one of Acer's mainstream Windows laptops, which is why we find so much upgradeability included. In reality it was a standard Windows machine converted to ChromeOS (I used to know which model). I didn't notice in the video, but my units have a DELETE button and a CAPS LOCK button...something regular Chromebooks never have...another holdover in a modified machine rushed to production. I've occasionally thought about converting my C710 to Linux, but since I have numerous other project laptops with better hardware (I'm typing this on a 2016 model Acer E11 that originally had Windows 7, was upgraded to Windows 10, and now has Linux Mint with the XFCE4 desktop), I just haven't seen the need. Besides, my wife may break hers and need a replacement. :D Great video that took me back a few years. Thank you!
Dang! A chromebook with user upgradeable parts! Must be nice!!! I did the same “jailbreak” on my chromebooks and they both have soldiered RAM and EMMC memory…
I have an Acer Aspire with AMD C-60 from 2011, similar specs but it can’t even play 720p TH-cam smoothly now :( it used to be able to play 1080p just fine when it was new.
This looks like the exact model my middle school had and 2013 sounds about right for when they got them. For context am graduating high school next year so this is a bit of a blast from the past and also yes the trackpad was that bad when new.
When I was in 8th grade at the end of 2015 our school got rid of the old white imacs and got a whole cart with about 40 of these little dell chromebooks. and im pretty sure they still have them to this day.
Just bought a c731 for 40 bucks on sale a couple days ago. You can't expand the ram or the HD, but after unlocking the device and updating the firmware I installed a lightweight Linux distro.
Ooh I had that exact same model of chromebook for a while until I got a used latitude e6420 in 2015. That thing has obviously aged a lot better than the chromebook for being about as old.
So, I had a similar situation with a Chromebook past the EOU date. It was in beautiful condition, but the original owner rightfully didn't want to use it without security updates. I put the new bios on, took off the security key and used Chrome Flex to renew it. It worked perfectly. I prefer to work with Linux, but this recycled Chromebook was to be given to a a computer novice with really just the need to do simple browsing and email.
I still have my Acer C720 Chromebook that I bought factory refurbished for $129 in 2014. I swapped in a 64GB m.2 and it's dual booted with Ubuntu and ChromeOS and still is useable for light tasks. I get around 45-50 fps in Minecraft 1.15 and Terraria is also unplayable. I even ordered a C720 with an i3-4005U and 4GB (soldered) ddr3 from Australia to the USA, but it never arrived. :( I still love mine and use it in my workshop to this day.
We have carts on carts of these things at my school and they are running chrome OS and have 4gb of ram. The school says these are an ‘upgrade’ over the windows 7 think pads we had a couple years ago with 8gb of ram if I can remember correctly an i3 6300 cpu (which wasn’t very old at the time) Now they expect us to edit videos for school projects on chromebooks.
Yeah, it's pretty crap how Google build in a 3 or 4 year redundancy into Chromebooks, they can clearly last much longer than that. Gotta make those $$$ I guess.
The insides of this laptop look exactly the same as an old netbook I bought recently! I wonder if they reused the same hardware for chromebooks when netbooks stopped selling.
That chromebook is probably better than the one I have to use provided by my school. My school chromebook takes about 3 mins to get to the login screen.
I think ChromeOS is a little bit underrated. And I think it was an extremly great decision from Google to release ChromeOS Flex. I have it running on my 2010 iMac(the 3.2 i3 version and not the basemodel) and it runs so well even from an extrenal USB 2.0 HDD. I quiet enjoy ot and it's much faster than High SIerra
Had this one too but gave it away. I did a similar thing but the SSD in mine was a 120GB SanDisk Ultra which costed me almost half of the price of the Chromebook back in the day (1 euro per GB) Mine came with a 4GB stick and i added 8GB to it. After all that the battery life was extremely good because it was designed with an about 5 times more energy consuming HDD in mind. The absurd high amounts of RAM made it so you have near unlimited amounts of tabs open. The SSD was taken out and is still in use in an older laptop that my sister uses. Fun device back in the day. Shame i gave it away. I will never make that error again.
Eyy I had the Acer C-720p which was a touchscreen from 2013. It was running a dual boot of Gallium OS and Chrome OS. Used that throughout Grade 6-7 before it slowed to the point that it took 3 hours to boot into Chromium.
Despite Chromebook pedigree, C710 have two SODIMM RAM slot and using SATA connector for SSD - just like typical windows netbook (unlike typical chromebook which is utilising eMMC + soldered RAM), so yeah, that's something different (and that ram slot, something that ThinkPad T440s until T480s only have one ram slot + soldered RAM)
I know this is a weird question, but how do you get over plugging in the all electronics because whenever I do that I feel like like it’s going to blow up in my face
Really not that bad for a relatively compact Chromebook! I definitely prefer laptops that are upgradeable: soldered on RAM and storage are a big no-no. Also, I'd have probably gone for 2x 4GB RAM sticks, since 10GB is quite an odd amount, and a bit overkill for a Chromebook which will be more limited by the CPU than anything else. Also good to know that there are lightweight Linux distros about. What are the best ones you would say for low end hardware? I wouldn't mind trying a few of these out on lower end systems. :)
The trick is that any Linux distro CAN be lightweight. Some come with more bloat out of the box, but can be stripped. Personally, I'm running Mint with the XFCE4 desktop (which is the lightest desktop version) on an Acer E11 from 2016 that has a processor just a tiny bit better than the C710, and it's pretty nice. I had put in 8GB back when this thing had Windows 10 on it, but Mint is using about 2.5GB, so 4GB would be fine. And I did the most required upgrade with an SSD, but you should do that with any laptop. What you're interested in is a distro that is light upon install, so look at Lubuntu. It's what I used first and it's very good, but I just wanted more bells and whistles.
I have this old Chromebook that I would like to give to a friend as it still works well. It won't allow me into my accounts anymore, it says my password cannot be "verified." I can get on as a guest but I can't add another user for some reason. Would resetting it to the factory settings allow me to enter everything again, or would it kill it? IF it's possible, how can I do it with this old machine? I can't find the right set of buttons.
This Chromebook is basically like my old Acer Aspire One AO756 netbook I use to use as my main laptop back in 2014 until 2018 it's just running chromeOS instead of Windows
This seems less annoyingly built than my 2011 and 2012 Acer netbooks, since those needed the keyboard pulled out to access any of the internals, which is a great way to scratch up the keyboard's backplate.
I saw the keyboard on the chromebook in the video had the search button where the windows key usually is and actually had a caps lock key. Why aren't chromebooks designed like this today?
Cool video, great seeing some TLC for old hardware. Just a thought, superglueing the plastic back together ensures it's not coming apart again right? Have you tried blue tack or another non-permanent adhesive for missing clips like that?
He only super glued the clips back on and the screw posts. It looks like everything except the display panel should be just as easy to take apart as it was before. Only difference is now it wont *fall apart*.
the laptop is very similar to the acer aspire one 756 that i have except the keyboard, the other part just the same, even the processor is celeron 847 too.
My grandmother has one of these and still uses it, the thing is bugged to shit with malware but she mainly just lets it sit on her desk and won’t get rid of it because she’s afraid that someone will get in it and hack her bank account or something.
It's an easy thing to do a refresh on it to bring it back to factory original status. I have never seen malware on a Chromebook since I bought my first one in 2014.
What is your opinion of the Lenovo Thinkpad T530? I got mine from my computer guy for free. When I got it, it had a 320 GB 5400 RPM HDD, 2 GB RAM, Intel HD 4000 GPU. I managed to upgrade to a 1 TB storage HDD storage drive, a 128 GB SSD boot drive and 16 GB RAM in addition to a 16 GB Dogfish SSD which I use for a few movies. Before I did the upgrades the system would barely run GTA 5 at less than 10 FPS. Now I get 25-35 FPS. By the way love your videos.
I have an old Lenovo Thinkpad t61 laptop that I found next to a dumpster in the rain, I don't have the correct charger and it didn't come with a battery. So I don't know if it works or not. Would you want to possibly make a video about it next week?
Hey dude, nice video, I was wondering about the oil spray you used to clean the laptop, and I kinda wanna get my hands on one, I'm not quite sure what to look up and if you've got more tips about dealing with second-hand laptops that would be great! Keep it up!
Eucalyptus oil naturally has solvents and organic compounds in it that other oils don’t. It’s essentially a replacement for using something like rubbing alcohol, with regard to dirt removal, germ killing, etc. Plus it’s a local product to Australia and smells good. But if you’re not in Australia there’s other things you can use (many use a light soap like window cleaner or diluted dish soap for large cleaning and alcohol for small cleaning) which will likely be cheaper for you.
@@kaitlyn__L Thank you very much! I might try the window cleaner but I worry if it might mess my stuff up? I'll see what I can find. I appreciate your help!
Interesting I replaced Mac OS on my MacBook Air with Neverware CloudReady OS. Maybe you could swap out the drive and test that laptop with that OS? Home version is free.
CloudReady is just precompiled chromium OS with some branding added. very similar to chromeOS, but with a slightly stripped down browser and less of the tight-knit app integration that makes it great
@@mecrumbly429___4 I checked for “officially supported” for cloud ready looks like my 2012 MacBook Air is supported till 2027. I as for gaming Google Stadia works great! Been testing Elder Scrolls online , Destiny 2, and Wolfenstein Young Blood on it. I found I’m using my Mac Book Air more especially light browsing or doing CE stuff online for my workplace. I like I get updates pushed to device from neverware so my build for chromium os is up to date. It’s nice to find second life for older hardware.
Thanks for watching 🙂 Can't wait to get more videos out to y'all again soon 👍
Love your t-shirt Nathan.
3rd reply lol
your knives look like cs go Knives
Thank you for providing more videos! Can't wait to watch them, it is really satisfactory how you refresh the older machines!
Nathan the labtop or (Chrome book) look like the Acer 756
"Vintage" and "Chromebook" aren't words i expected to hear in the same sentence.
I wouldn't really call anything from 2013 "Vintage"
When I filmed the opening shot I was going by what the description on the package said 🤣
@@classic_jam Fuckin Zoomers!
Yeah, I felt like I was 10 years older than I am just by hearing that lol
Probably because Google doesn’t support chrome books for more than 5 years
Every laptop that comes in nathan’s house never wants to leave
Ok I would have to disagree. He always gives them away to people who need them and sells them on eBay too for charity.
@@CardboardGuy I think he meant that because Nathan fixes them up, they don’t want to leave because he “took care” of the electronics
Yea cause they get drugged with eucalyptus oil
@@chef_latte >:) he drowns them in Eucalyptus oil
This is true lol
These vids are so ENTERTAINING!!!!
Ikr
Yup!
I really wonder where Chromebooks are going with how well they are selling these days. I don't own one right now but I always have a soft spot for them, they make so much sense for so many people.
I'm watching this on one, a Lenovo two in one model with an ARM CPU
watching this on an acer chromebook 14 (the one with the unibody).
I’ve got one that I found for about 10 bucks and is one of the earliest to be compatible with the play store. It can’t even watch TH-cam at 1080p properly, but I still think they’re great little devices
Not that much people like chromebooks since they run on locked software to the point where theres only a web browser
Chromebooks are super popular for schools, my school has thousands of them at any given time
The C710 is actually one of the most compatible Chromebooks when it comes to running Windows. So if you want Windows 10 (preferably ReviOS) then you can run it. On a Chromebook.
Though it wouldn't run great when you have a Celeron. Windows 10 seems to be one of the most bloated OSes out of the lot. Windows 7 often ran smoother than Windows 10 on the same hardware.
@@TheSpotify95 Hence, ReviOS.
@@TheSpotify95 revios is a super light version of windows that has bloat yeeted.
@@aetvrna It's great. I use it on Core 2 Duos and it makes them incredibly snappy.
I have two of these. They are the most compatible for Windows because they were actually repurposed Windows laptops. Years ago I knew the exact Acer model for the Win version, but I've had mine since 2014 so...memory. Note that they actually have Windows keyboards too as opposed to Chromebook keyboards. DELETE key and CAPS LOCK key still on there. You'll not ever see another Chromebook to my knowledge with those buttons.
Thank you for showing that a old device can but still useful, I think that we must go back to having devices that can be updated , it is good for the environment
Dude, my little sister had that back in 2012. I vividly remember going to get it for her at Best Buy. Crazy to imagine that's been 9 years.
what happened to it?
your a good brother for buying that
Watching you do some repairs to these old machines is soothing and giving me something to learn. Keep up the awesome work.
This guy looks like a protagonist from a Resident Evil game, but, when he "smirks", he looks like a Far Cry villain.
I owned the Acer C720 and used that for about 4-5 years. Absolutely loved that little machine.
I didn’t think I’d hear the phrase “vintage Chromebook”
Sounds like an aberration. Vintage sounds like something worth collecting, keeping, and looking at. An old Chromebook tends to fall more into the despicable, useless junk category.
@@BilisNegra ... unless you put Linux on it
@@trueouchys :)
From watching this, it reminds me on how even old laptops can still do well with an SSD. I still have my old 2013 Thinkpad Edge with its I3-3110M and 4GB RAM and replacing the HDD, it actually does well. It obviously cant game, but for what I use it for, it does alright.
I'm watching this on an Acer C720 with upgraded SSD and Windows 10. Google stopped supporting it many years ago, but with Win10 it's still a decent netbook in 2021.
I've never seen an upgradable Chromebook before, Nice Video (:
your videos have very good production and are very entertaining. and i love it
acer's a good brand, everyone in my family who's had one has had one has had a good experience with it, even my grandpa's and its from 2013 and still works fine.
I dont know why but your videos are so relaxing and interesting at the same time. Usually i dont watch tech videos till the very end, except ur vids! Thanks for entertaining me :D
I bought one of these recently and installed 8GB of ram as well as a 120GB ssd and windows 10. It makes it a nice portable windows device with good battery life.
Chromebooks are like Netbooks with a new OS
It feels like it, yeah
Exactly, and this one looks a lot like some Acer netbook model from years ago. Because it is one, of course.
that runs better than netbooks did,i mean with chrome os
My Samsung Chromebook is a pleasure to use. My old Acer Aspire One netbook, on the other hand …
@@MisterBrain lol
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I actually used that one, you need to be careful because the hinge is extremely bad. I've "repaired" the hinge with a binder clip.
Those case plastics gave me horrible flashbacks to my old Acer Aspire laptop which I think was around the same era. Brittle plastics and easily snapped parts were a plenty and I was so happy when I replaced it.
Acer chromebooks give me nostalgia because I used one in 2014
It’s about time the channel should be called ‘’EucalyptusOil4You’’ LOL
Idk maybe EucalyptusOil4Thee
“Vintage Chromebook”
Jeez I feel old now
Damn
I have a Dell Latitude E6510 that I’d love to send to you! It’s in excellent condition but some of the keys on the keyboard don’t work anymore.
I think you can email him
bruh
my first laptop was an e6410
one
one digit off
ONE
US laptop-"What's a eucalyptus and why does it give oil to me?"
I got literally this exact same model a few weeks ago, and it runs Ubuntu 16.04 and Minecraft 1.8 half decently with 4gb ram
The first first laptop that i owned myself was a Chromebook, a thinkpad x131, that i eventually put linux on. It was about the same amount of upgradable. Anyway, great vid! :)
Our high school gave us these. Mine broke at least twice every year. It became such a problem that the school switched chromebook models to thinkpads for the all the kids that came into the school following us. I don’t miss that thing.
I vibe with this so hard. I used my hp atom netbook from about 2011 to the beginning of 2017. Could still get around 4 hours of battery by that time.
I own two of these C710's. I bought the first one in 2014, and upgraded it to 4GB. I never had a need to upgrade the drive since at that time I was dedicatedly using Google's online services. I used it until 2017 when I bought a CTL J5(?) which had a touchscreen. The C710 cost $199 at Walmart at that time. A couple years ago I dusted it off and gifted it to my dad who does only very simple online things with laptops. He liked it enough that about a year later he bought a new Chromebook of his own, so he returned the C710 to me.
The second unit I bought for my wife as a birthday gift around 2016. She at first had no idea why I'd give her one...she didn't care at all about using laptops. But she's still using it today, unashamedly loves it, and it still performs just as quickly as it did when new. But the OS of course stopped updating in 2019 I believe. I never upgraded hers, so it has the original 2GB RAM. I bought hers refurbed from the Acer store for $99.
A while back she somehow cracked her charger, so I gave her the one out of mine. The chargers are impossible to find now, but Acer fortunately used the same socket connection on many other laptop models so other different styles are compatible if I ever really need to get another charger.
I too always really liked the upgradeability of these laptops. IIRC the next model after the C710, the C720, had soldered RAM and such, which was a bummer. One interesting thing about the Acer C710 is that the chassis was repurposed from one of Acer's mainstream Windows laptops, which is why we find so much upgradeability included. In reality it was a standard Windows machine converted to ChromeOS (I used to know which model). I didn't notice in the video, but my units have a DELETE button and a CAPS LOCK button...something regular Chromebooks never have...another holdover in a modified machine rushed to production.
I've occasionally thought about converting my C710 to Linux, but since I have numerous other project laptops with better hardware (I'm typing this on a 2016 model Acer E11 that originally had Windows 7, was upgraded to Windows 10, and now has Linux Mint with the XFCE4 desktop), I just haven't seen the need. Besides, my wife may break hers and need a replacement. :D
Great video that took me back a few years. Thank you!
Dang! A chromebook with user upgradeable parts! Must be nice!!! I did the same “jailbreak” on my chromebooks and they both have soldiered RAM and EMMC memory…
I have an Acer Aspire with AMD C-60 from 2011, similar specs but it can’t even play 720p TH-cam smoothly now :( it used to be able to play 1080p just fine when it was new.
This looks like the exact model my middle school had and 2013 sounds about right for when they got them. For context am graduating high school next year so this is a bit of a blast from the past and also yes the trackpad was that bad when new.
When I was in 8th grade at the end of 2015 our school got rid of the old white imacs and got a whole cart with about 40 of these little dell chromebooks. and im pretty sure they still have them to this day.
0:20 I’m surprised a scary looking knife like that is still legal in Australia.
I have used a laptop like this for a year to 2 years with Windows 7 and it worked quite well!
Thanks man, I look forward to sending my Hp2000 serie. Love 💕 your vids
Your content is well explained man. I sub!
Just bought a c731 for 40 bucks on sale a couple days ago. You can't expand the ram or the HD, but after unlocking the device and updating the firmware I installed a lightweight Linux distro.
This is the same model I used for years at school when chromebooks first came out. Ah, the memories I made on this machine.
Ooh I had that exact same model of chromebook for a while until I got a used latitude e6420 in 2015. That thing has obviously aged a lot better than the chromebook for being about as old.
5:20 maybe using optifine or sodium, you can get more fps 😉
It would keep crashing when I used optifine in version 1.17 😬
@@psivewri and sodium?
Edit: sorry, I forgot that Sodium hasn't been released to 1.17 yet.
@@psivewri use 1.8 its more faster
@@cristianmorello131 I used 1.7.10 on my old laptop, there's a bug on 1.8 where it crashes when you try to close it.
@@someperson1767 oh okay
So, I had a similar situation with a Chromebook past the EOU date. It was in beautiful condition, but the original owner rightfully didn't want to use it without security updates. I put the new bios on, took off the security key and used Chrome Flex to renew it. It worked perfectly. I prefer to work with Linux, but this recycled Chromebook was to be given to a a computer novice with really just the need to do simple browsing and email.
WOAH!
SOOO awesome and informative!
I still have my Acer C720 Chromebook that I bought factory refurbished for $129 in 2014. I swapped in a 64GB m.2 and it's dual booted with Ubuntu and ChromeOS and still is useable for light tasks. I get around 45-50 fps in Minecraft 1.15 and Terraria is also unplayable.
I even ordered a C720 with an i3-4005U and 4GB (soldered) ddr3 from Australia to the USA, but it never arrived. :(
I still love mine and use it in my workshop to this day.
I fell in love with your content
Oh I actually recently took an old C300 that I got years ago and installed Linux on it, pretty cool.
Why you didn't install a updated Chrome Os to see the performance of this machine
Thanks mate! I had one of these awful excuse for a laptop! Always positive vibes tho!
We have carts on carts of these things at my school and they are running chrome OS and have 4gb of ram. The school says these are an ‘upgrade’ over the windows 7 think pads we had a couple years ago with 8gb of ram if I can remember correctly an i3 6300 cpu (which wasn’t very old at the time) Now they expect us to edit videos for school projects on chromebooks.
Yeah, it's pretty crap how Google build in a 3 or 4 year redundancy into Chromebooks, they can clearly last much longer than that. Gotta make those $$$ I guess.
Ive actually just gotten myself one of these off of ebay for like $20 a month ago
This reminds me of an Acer Chromebook that I used in elementary school. Looked basically like that one, but more Ultrabook like.
The insides of this laptop look exactly the same as an old netbook I bought recently!
I wonder if they reused the same hardware for chromebooks when netbooks stopped selling.
That chromebook is probably better than the one I have to use provided by my school. My school chromebook takes about 3 mins to get to the login screen.
When you realize it’s basically just an aspire one lmao. Good video!
yeah, vendors seem to do that a lot with chromebooks. HP very often repackages their Probook series as chromebooks.
I think ChromeOS is a little bit underrated. And I think it was an extremly great decision from Google to release ChromeOS Flex. I have it running on my 2010 iMac(the 3.2 i3 version and not the basemodel) and it runs so well even from an extrenal USB 2.0 HDD. I quiet enjoy ot and it's much faster than High SIerra
"i normaly don't apply threadlocker..."
ChrisFix wants to know your location
I’m still using an Acer c720 but instead with windows. I’m quite surprised how well windows 10 runs with just 2GB ram and a cheap celeron 2955u
“A bit of TLC”
Me a BFDI fan: a bit of…tiny loser chamber….?
Eliminated
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special education children moment
This Chromebook kinda has the looks of the Acer Aspire One 756 I used to own. Pretty much great for productivity stuff and old games.
I'm still using that same chromebook, I did upgrade it to 4gb of ram for $7 off ebay last year
4:57 nice pattern on the Rubiks' men
Had this one too but gave it away. I did a similar thing but the SSD in mine was a 120GB SanDisk Ultra which costed me almost half of the price of the Chromebook back in the day (1 euro per GB)
Mine came with a 4GB stick and i added 8GB to it. After all that the battery life was extremely good because it was designed with an about 5 times more energy consuming HDD in mind.
The absurd high amounts of RAM made it so you have near unlimited amounts of tabs open. The SSD was taken out and is still in use in an older laptop that my sister uses. Fun device back in the day. Shame i gave it away. I will never make that error again.
thanks great well explained video
this chromebook model was my first laptop actually. did me good for years until i got my first windows pc.
Eyy I had the Acer C-720p which was a touchscreen from 2013. It was running a dual boot of Gallium OS and Chrome OS. Used that throughout Grade 6-7 before it slowed to the point that it took 3 hours to boot into Chromium.
Why not installing the original os and try that?
Despite Chromebook pedigree, C710 have two SODIMM RAM slot and using SATA connector for SSD - just like typical windows netbook (unlike typical chromebook which is utilising eMMC + soldered RAM), so yeah, that's something different (and that ram slot, something that ThinkPad T440s until T480s only have one ram slot + soldered RAM)
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I know this is a weird question, but how do you get over plugging in the all electronics because whenever I do that I feel like like it’s going to blow up in my face
You loose that feeling after some time.
Just stand back when you turn it on. :p
Really not that bad for a relatively compact Chromebook! I definitely prefer laptops that are upgradeable: soldered on RAM and storage are a big no-no. Also, I'd have probably gone for 2x 4GB RAM sticks, since 10GB is quite an odd amount, and a bit overkill for a Chromebook which will be more limited by the CPU than anything else.
Also good to know that there are lightweight Linux distros about. What are the best ones you would say for low end hardware? I wouldn't mind trying a few of these out on lower end systems. :)
The trick is that any Linux distro CAN be lightweight. Some come with more bloat out of the box, but can be stripped. Personally, I'm running Mint with the XFCE4 desktop (which is the lightest desktop version) on an Acer E11 from 2016 that has a processor just a tiny bit better than the C710, and it's pretty nice. I had put in 8GB back when this thing had Windows 10 on it, but Mint is using about 2.5GB, so 4GB would be fine. And I did the most required upgrade with an SSD, but you should do that with any laptop.
What you're interested in is a distro that is light upon install, so look at Lubuntu. It's what I used first and it's very good, but I just wanted more bells and whistles.
Great Video!
0:20 its called a karambut but still technically a knife
Is there a possibility of hardware or software CPU or GPU overclocking? Did you try emulation (or can you next time on Chromebooks/Netbooks)?
I have this old Chromebook that I would like to give to a friend as it still works well. It won't allow me into my accounts anymore, it says my password cannot be "verified." I can get on as a guest but I can't add another user for some reason. Would resetting it to the factory settings allow me to enter everything again, or would it kill it? IF it's possible, how can I do it with this old machine? I can't find the right set of buttons.
I actually found a newer style chromebook that’s like that that has a replaceable ssd, and it was laggy but I lost it before I could even instal Linux
FYI the trackpads still sucked when they were new
That chromebook has a windows model called Aspire One 756, I use it with linux and it's ok + very portable
Can you please get your hands on an entirely whole green laptop.
This Chromebook is basically like my old Acer Aspire One AO756 netbook I use to use as my main laptop back in 2014 until 2018 it's just running chromeOS instead of Windows
This seems less annoyingly built than my 2011 and 2012 Acer netbooks, since those needed the keyboard pulled out to access any of the internals, which is a great way to scratch up the keyboard's backplate.
Holy crap. With that amount of thermal paste applied to the CPU, you'll have The Verge banging down your door with job offers left right and center.
I laugh that this 2013 laptop is "vintage" and called old.
My daily driver is a 2010 MacBook Pro.
I'm using an antique/relic it would seem LOL
I saw the keyboard on the chromebook in the video had the search button where the windows key usually is and actually had a caps lock key. Why aren't chromebooks designed like this today?
Cool video, great seeing some TLC for old hardware. Just a thought, superglueing the plastic back together ensures it's not coming apart again right? Have you tried blue tack or another non-permanent adhesive for missing clips like that?
He only super glued the clips back on and the screw posts. It looks like everything except the display panel should be just as easy to take apart as it was before.
Only difference is now it wont *fall apart*.
I GONNA MISS THE OLD SAMSUNG CHROMEBOOK!! 😓
What are your views on using an android os such as prime os on this device instead of a linux os?
the laptop is very similar to the acer aspire one 756 that i have except the keyboard, the other part just the same, even the processor is celeron 847 too.
My grandmother has one of these and still uses it, the thing is bugged to shit with malware but she mainly just lets it sit on her desk and won’t get rid of it because she’s afraid that someone will get in it and hack her bank account or something.
It's an easy thing to do a refresh on it to bring it back to factory original status. I have never seen malware on a Chromebook since I bought my first one in 2014.
@@k.b.tidwell yeah Ik I’ve tried then she downloads some fucky add blocker and gets more lmao
What is your opinion of the Lenovo Thinkpad T530? I got mine from my computer guy for free. When I got it, it had a 320 GB 5400 RPM HDD, 2 GB RAM, Intel HD 4000 GPU. I managed to upgrade to a 1 TB storage HDD storage drive, a 128 GB SSD boot drive and 16 GB RAM in addition to a 16 GB Dogfish SSD which I use for a few movies. Before I did the upgrades the system would barely run GTA 5 at less than 10 FPS. Now I get 25-35 FPS. By the way love your videos.
I have an old Lenovo Thinkpad t61 laptop that I found next to a dumpster in the rain, I don't have the correct charger and it didn't come with a battery. So I don't know if it works or not. Would you want to possibly make a video about it next week?
Hey dude, nice video, I was wondering about the oil spray you used to clean the laptop, and I kinda wanna get my hands on one, I'm not quite sure what to look up and if you've got more tips about dealing with second-hand laptops that would be great! Keep it up!
Eucalyptus oil naturally has solvents and organic compounds in it that other oils don’t. It’s essentially a replacement for using something like rubbing alcohol, with regard to dirt removal, germ killing, etc. Plus it’s a local product to Australia and smells good. But if you’re not in Australia there’s other things you can use (many use a light soap like window cleaner or diluted dish soap for large cleaning and alcohol for small cleaning) which will likely be cheaper for you.
@@kaitlyn__L Thank you very much! I might try the window cleaner but I worry if it might mess my stuff up? I'll see what I can find. I appreciate your help!
You should try to update the OS to ChromeOS Flex, now that is more stable and for general use on old Netbooks and AUE Chromebooks
Hi, can you please help me? I have a laptop exactly like this, but ihe touchpad mousse doesnt apear on screen, what should i do?
I legit want him to fix my old laptop, it has screen flickering issues and only disappears at a certain angle of the screen.
even before you upgraded it, it if still better than what I have rn:')
Interesting I replaced Mac OS on my MacBook Air with Neverware CloudReady OS. Maybe you could swap out the drive and test that laptop with that OS? Home version is free.
CloudReady is just precompiled chromium OS with some branding added. very similar to chromeOS, but with a slightly stripped down browser and less of the tight-knit app integration that makes it great
@@mecrumbly429___4 I checked for “officially supported” for cloud ready looks like my 2012 MacBook Air is supported till 2027. I as for gaming Google Stadia works great! Been testing Elder Scrolls online , Destiny 2, and Wolfenstein Young Blood on it. I found I’m using my Mac Book Air more especially light browsing or doing CE stuff online for my workplace. I like I get updates pushed to device from neverware so my build for chromium os is up to date. It’s nice to find second life for older hardware.
Where do you get your eucalyptus oil from? I can't find anything that looks like it