Chromebook suggestions please

Beeblebr0x

Why not just buy an Android tablet?

Aidanmc

flaneurs_lobster said:

p_anotherguy said:

Aidanmc said:

Was looking at windows laptops, but now thinking a Chrome book may suffice for general web browsing, youtube and the like.

can Chromebook RAM and hard drive be upgraded if necessary, or again does it depend on make/model?

This is the first one for consideration.

https://www.currys.co.uk/products/hp-15anb0502sa-15.6-chromebook-plus-intel-core-i3-128-gb-ssd-silver-10250776.html

If you just want to browse the web, it's enough. But don't expect too much

Just in case you are still considering Windows boxes, found this yesterday at Currys

https://www.currys.co.uk/products/samsung-galaxy-book4-edge-15.6-laptop-copilot-pc-snapdragon-x-plus-256-gb-ssd-sapphire-blue-10271960.html?searchTerm=samsung book

It's £499, but the purchaser has a school email address which is sufficient for a £100 discount (offer ends 24/08).

At £399 I recon that's quite a bargain.

With that £100 discount it seems a good deal alright.

I went ahead though with the Acer Aspire 3 from Very. I arrived on Wednesday so i'm still getting to know it!
I like the keyboard feel and the touchpad is much larger than my old Pavilion which helps when taking screen shots. Its not the quickest though, probably not much better than my old HP, despite uninstalling a bunch of bloatware and disabling start up apps, but its ok.

For what i paid around £289, with the Very discount and TCB, i'm happy for what i got.  
After initial load up when i run the windows updates, the fan was running flat out, i was thinking this sounds like my HP (fan ran on it constantly) but then i realised the updates were heavy on CPU so that explained it. Now as quiet as a mouse!

I wanted to try Linus mint, so i installed it on old HP just to try it out, it was fast compared to the old windows 10.
I'm going to get a sata-usb cable and boot the Acer with it just to see how i like it.

tir21

Another Pixelbook Go fan. Speakers are great on them

Olenna

I'd suggest a decent second-hand/reconditioned Windows laptop such as:
Refurbished DELL Latitude 5320 Intel Core i7 11th Gen 16GB RAM 256GB SSD 13.3" Windows 11 Pro Laptop 

You get a decent machine for most basic tasks, basic warranty and can pop another operating system like Chrome OS if you want down the line.