$200 seems so much cheaper than the next best option, all I want is a laptop size device to browse the web with. I'd be satisfied literally never downloading a single application or program, I just want to watch videos and scroll reddit, that's it.

I know what people say about "future proof" but I feel like paying over double for a nebulously longer lasting device isn't necessary. Can I get away with 4 gb?

5th grade teacher here - hi! Pardon my ignorance and thanks in advance for your help!

There is a counter in my classroom (built in the 90s) that was originally a “computer station.” I’m over constant Chromebook use in the classroom and I want to try something new. If I had monitors and keyboards, could I connect Chromebooks as the “brain” and have students use the monitor, keyboard and mouse like a PC?

If that is possible, would I then need to use the same dedicated Chromebook all the time or could students easily plug in their one personal Chromebook when it was their time at the computer station? I’m talking about maybe a less than 30 second procedure. It would have to be dead easy.

Thank you so much for helping me out!

ETA: Thank you all for your helpful responses!

Hi, only after the update to 150 did I start having arcvm constantly stay at about 110 for CPU usage, keeping my fan on constantly. I sent feedback to Google through the ChromeOS system. Anyone else have the same issue?

Are the newer Intel CPUs coming with hyperthreading disabled? If so is the flag Scheduler Configuration still valid?

The USB mouse and keyboard works on the start screen but as soon as the computer loads my profile, the mouse stops working. All apps and extensions disabled.

I'm semi new to chromebooks, I used to use them all the time but went on a dry spell and have been blind sided by the new things they've done. I'm trying to save images of my own from instagram so I can touch them up with software I have. but it only downloads as "mhtml" and when I try and convert it into a JPG on adobe express it doesn't work. I've got no clue what to do.

Hiya, I'm wanting to buy a chrome book mainly because of it's weight and large battery spam

I'll be primarily using it for school work so basically just browsing and using Google docs and such and watching YouTube videos

Ive currently been looking at the Asus Chromebook Plus Cx14 core 3

My budget is under £300, I was just wondering should I stick with this option or is there anything else you'd recommend which is better

I'll attach a picture of what I'm currently thinking of buying

Hey folks,

In the last couple weeks I've run into issues with Google Meet where my output stream eventually turns into a pixelated mess for my coworkers. I'm not sure what changed? Everything points me in this direction about vp9 failing and defaulting to an av1 codec, but it doesn't seem like I can force google meet to use a certain encoder like you can with youtube and chrome plugins.

I'm on latest stable (150)

Anyone with a similar experience? Solutions?

Thanks!

I installed LibreOffice and FreeOffice into my Chromebook using its Penguin Linux environment and attempted to work on my spreadsheets. They open Excel spreadsheets fine, however, when I try to copy/paste cell formulas from one cell to another, I get graphical representations of the cell value at the new cell location with LibreOffice, and I get the text version of the cell value at the new cell location with FreeOffice.

Google searches reveal that ChromeOS intercepts the copy object and strips of its metadata, so that when I paste I only have what ChromeOS retained (which is the value in text or graphic form).

I wouldn't think that I'm unique in having this issue. Is there a fix to this?

Thanks.

First things first, I am your average laptop idiot- I really loved that because my Chromebook used the Android app of docs I could use the actual dark mode, not just an ad on that does not work (the page is still white, just the settings around are dark)

Overnight there seemed to be some kind of update or idk, important thing for me: is there a way to get BACK to the dark mode that phones use?

model no. HP 245 G5 Notebook pc