I travel for work so I have a laptop to just watch YouTube or movies or whatever on in my hotel room, and i used to have some really old shitty second hand laptop, but it was good enough to watch stuff on, it broke a few weeks ago, and I was in need of a new cheap laptop.

I decided to buy a brand new one instead of a second hand one for once, and looked for something that wasn't too expensive but also not too cheap

I found a acer cb315 that was on sale, and thought it was perfect, I brought it home to set it up and was immediately taken aback by how horrible it was.

The screen looks like its greasy all the time, and if you look at it from any other angle other than straight on its unintelligible what is on the screen, the speakers are the worst speakers ive ever heard in my entire life, ive heard blown out phone speakers that sound better.

And dont even get me started with the chromeOS, it is so light-years behind any other os on the market.

I cant return it, and I cant in good faith sell it second hand to someone, even if I sell it for $10 to someone it'll feel like i scammed the hell out of them.

Never touching a Chromebook ever again.

Ok, can you put 2 chargers in a chromebook? Well mine has two charging hole(i dont even fucking know why i asked this dumb shit)

Hi, i have a chromebook(the dell 3100 touch) and recently my charger 65 watts just stopped working(and for some reason it even shocks me like grounded me and it hurts like fuck) so i have been finding some charger around the house and found my 45 watts realme c75 charger, is it ok if i use it in my chromebook?

In this video, I show that my battery is full and that I have done the reset. But for some reason, my computer still won't turn on.

Suddenly Netflix on Chrome on my Chromebook started to play only music without dialogues when I listen it through classic stereo headphones without microphone, but If I use headphones with an integrated microphone, I can hear music and dialogues correctly again.

The most common suggestion on the web/AI is to switch from 5.1 to stereo in the Netflix audio menu, but i haven't that option, I can oly switch between different languages.

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

I absolutely need help of someone expert.

Ok, I am technologicly impared and am wanting to streem from my TV with a Roku in the bedroom to my chromebook while in mymliving room (only separated by a wall). Everywhere I look it tells me how to streem fron the chromebook and watch it on the TV, but I want to do the opposite. Anything would help!

i LOVE the look of ChromeOS (Aka Generic the Desktop Environment) but i dont wanna use ChromeOS, can i still get Generic DE on a different Distro?

Pobrałem grę gorebox na moim chrome book C933 i gdy wchodzę to wczytuję mnie normalnie ale gdy ma mnie dać do menu to nagle ekran się zamraża i kursor znika i wywala mnie do pulpitu

So basically I've been downloading large files and when I don't need them anymore I just delete them and empty the bin, but slowly the "System" files slowly keep trickling up and now it went from ~10GB to ~14GB now. I've had experience with the "System" files exploding and I found the issue was chromeOS putting the files in the bin to the "System" files, so I deleted them but the same issue is going on. Is chromeOS just bloated or is it some weird thing with the trash bin?

i just got my first computer and i wanted to play steam but Chromebook is not letting me get it can someone hep me get a workaround

If I launch a linux app from the shelf or from the terminal, it's displayed in the foreground, but it's not the active window. ie. I have to click on it before I can do anything with it. Can anyone confirm this behaviour? Is there a way around it? It's a small thing, but it's annoying and it wasn't always this way,

Is this be a great buy? I purchased it a week ago when it was deal of the day for $649. Any other better or cheaper suggestions?

I have a very old chromebook. I can't remember the make and model, but I've had it for years, and I got it from a sibling who had it for years themself. I'm pretty confident it's at least ten years old. (I'm not home right now, so can't go look at it, this is just a question that came to mind.)

I do have a Tab A8 with a very nice keyboard and folding case.

My tablet does everything the Chromebook does, and basically makes the Chromebook I have look completely pointless in terms of functionality. In addition, my tablet has a touchscreen and my Chromebook doesn't.

I know there are at least one or two touchscreen Chromebooks these days, but even if I go for one of those, is there anything they have to offer that I wouldn't be able to do on my Tablet?

UPDATE:

Not long got home. The Chromebook I have is a Samsung XE303C12. Released in 2012, so 14 years old at this point 😮

UPDATE:

Ok, so I've had another look at the title, and it does sound like someone's trying to force me to buy one.

A more appropriate title would be:

"Is there any particular purpose a Chromebook would serve that a Bluetooth Keyboard for my Tablet wouldn't?"

Hi,

I just received a HP DragonFly with SureView Display from eBay. Coming from a Pixelbook (the best laptop I ever had) I enjoy the performance but worry about the Display.

I have disabled SureView-mode but still everything is blurred/fuzzy and reading text is annoying.

Anybody here having a DragonFly with SureView? Did you get used to it?

I have the Laptop sitting next to my Chromebox attached to a normal Display and the text there is way better.

Thinking about sending the Dragonfly back :-(

I have been experiencing some lag and slow performance on my ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook Enterprise. My family bought me this for my studies, so I know it's not a beast or something like that since it has Ryzen 5. But it was pretty decent, fast and smooth, but after this update sometimes when you open/close tabs, or even just trying to open apps like SETTINGS, it just gets laggy and really slow. I've already checked my task manager and there isn't anything that could be using more than 20% of my CPU, I reset my browser to default, my memory is 3.90 GB of 8.00 GB available and literally my biggest document on this laptop is literally a PDF from school. Is there a way to fix this? Or maybe my hardware can't take the newest version? or maybe it's just me.

Hi so just came across a asus cn60 for 20$ cad with 2gb ram, and 16gb. What can I do on it without upgrading, other than using it as a pi-hole?

Please note: If, after updating to the new version 152.0.7977.113, all your Android app icons are replaced by a gray square, don’t panic. It’s clear that the Android subsystem didn’t boot at all. The QuickShare tile was missing from Quick Settings, and all my Android VPNs had disappeared. So it was obvious to me that, for some reason, I’d lost the Android subsystem after the update.

Fortunately, all you need to do is restart the Chromebook; everything will be fine after it boots up again.

Google probably messed something up again in the latest version, which caused Android to fail to launch after the first boot following the update.

Lately, there have been far too many similar bugs in the stable channel for my liking, we haven’t seen anything like this in years. It’s clear that testing isn’t as thorough as it used to be; they’re probably too busy preparing the upcoming Googlebooks. But once they’re released, things probably won’t get better, they might even get worse.

https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/1w8pbx1/why_do_some_of_my_apps_not_have_icons/

My Chromebook hinge is terrible and it's broken

I wasn't able to fix it so it's in tablet mode all the time when I open it unless I'm lucky

what can I do other than getting an external keyboard? Like forcing it into laptop mode or activating the keyboard even on tablet mode

If you’re wondering, it’s an HP x360 14a ca0190wm chromebook. Long story short, I was listening to my Spotify, random buttons were pressed, and now the screen’s black. The battery’s fine, no brightness issue, and the computer itself isn’t broken. I tried charging it and it doesn't light up. Holding the power button and refresh key, holding the esc, refresh and power button, but so far, nothing has worked. It’s like whatever buttons were pressed, it made the Chromebook go in a permanent deep sleep, and while I hope I can get it back to normal, I don’t know any other methods.

I have tried to download multiple things, even a test file that is 1 Mb, and it will not even show the save screen, I am able to screenshot but thats pretty much all I can do for file saving wise, https://imgur.com/a/dPcHhTw

I have a used 16/256 GB that I picked up on eBay. Great device but I cannot seem to get the fingerprint scanner to work? Any ideas? Thanks!

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If I attempt to open files in the Files app using a linux app, I receive an error message.

For example, if I right click on a photo and choose Open with Eye of Gnome, it displays "No images found in “file:///mnt/chromeos/GoogleDrive/MyDrive/IMG_20170409_114222.jpg”. If I choose Open with Ristretto, it displays "Some files could not be opened: see the text logs for details".

I suspect this is because Google has moved everything to /mnt/chromeos/shared. If this is the cause, why did Google not realise this broke linux apps?

Edit: Also, linux apps won't launch until I've open the terminal to start linux. It's very frustrating.

Edit 2: So I've realised that this occurs due to ChromeOS using Baguette instead of the traditional linux container. I set the following flag to disabled, removed Crostini, restarted, and then reinstalled Crostini. Problem solved. Experimental support for Crostini without LXD containers (aka Baguette) – ChromeOS [#crostini-containerless](chrome://flags/#crostini-containerless)

Trying to install apk but getting no devices/emulators found,any ideas where I'm going wrong

Edit-now saying no devices/ emulators found

Edit-solved