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>>827168 (OP)

they're good for old people that just need to browse the web and check their emails but that's about it

They have seabios instead of the UEFI crap, so on some devices you can install a real distro or you can run a distro on top of the optimized botnet kernel.

disregarding the bullshit around jewgle, how well made are these things? they look worse than the era where you could get sub $200 netbooks new.

Good for a cheap laptop.

Just make sure you get a model that you can purge chrome os and install something good

Chromebooks are real good. I run Gentoo and Void on two C720s and they're real smooth. Just the placement of the "search" key is stupid as fuck. Had to write an xkb layout to map it to ctrl

>>827208

They're definitely not as shitty as netbooks.

>>827235

What do you mainly use them for?

The ones with ARM cpu don't have the Intel ME stuff at lest. And the build quality is probably better than the Pinebook, but that one's only $100 new.

More infos here: https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/c201.html

>>827267

I use the Gentoo one for android development and the Void one for university work

C201 is a pile of garbage. Flashed it with libreboot and put Parabola on it and it is just collecting dust now. Waaaaaay too slow for average tasksz even with 4gb ram - Firefox takes 50s to start, Libreoffice hangs the whole system, etc.

Get yourself a librebooted thinkpad and save yourself the trouble.

>>827320

It doesn't have any graphics acceleration support what did you expect? Also I think there's a Devuan based distro on github for the c201 that has patches to fix most of the issues.

>>827320

https://notabug.org/dimkr/devsus

>>827320

which thinkpad would you prefer?

>>827349

I got a t400. Don't get the R series whatever you do, they have lower build quality

Are Chromebooks good for coding?

I'm using a Chromebook right now. I think they're pretty comfy to use, even though they can't handle much more than a 1080p video.

I have my desktop if I want to do anything more than go on JewTubeTM or play osrs.

they work but not very well. You might as well just by a cheap ass netbook if that's what you're after. But if you're working an absolutely rock bottom budget for laptops but desperately want to buy new instead of used, you can make it work. Install a very light weight OS on it.

<Can anything useful be done

>on a 16:9

it's trash. enjoy your 700 vertical pixels

>>827168 (OP)

Some x86 ones can be useful, if loaded up with Gallium OS - it's basically Xubuntu with some chromebook-specific tweaks.

>>827424

It's no different with regular laptops though. They're all pretty much 16:9 in the local stores where I live. I bought the cheapest one that had a matte screen and called it a day. Been limping along with this after my T61p mobo broke, but that one sucked too (16:10). In retrospect, a chromebook would have been better, since they have ARM cpu option and I don't want Intel shit anymore.

Are there any Chromeboks with a non-chicklet keyboard?

>>827424

Chromebook Pixel is 3:2. Try buying a win10 cucktop or apple bumpgate pro with a man's aspect ratio like that.

>>827320

with the mali graphic acceleration it is somewhat usable

if anything they last a while

and even if they break, they're fairly easy to repair

in addition, because they're so simple, they probably won't go obsolete for a while

>>828449

Good way to put it in perspective.

>>827168 (OP)

A portmanteau of a stupid web browser and "book". Sounds legit

>>827893

Are you too poor for Surface Pro? You must be poor for Pixel either.