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Acer Chromebook 15 - White US $281.22 (~AU $370) Delivered @ Amazon [15" FHD IPS, Intel 3205U, 4GB RAM, 32GB SSD, Upgradeable]

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I think it's a good price for a good and most importantly upgreadable Chromebook.

Pro's:
- beautiful 15" Full HD IPS screen! You know I'm a big fan of hi-res IPS screens in laptops, and 15" is very good.
- decent power Celeron processor 13500+ score in Octane V2 (not the low-powered N series Celeron they put in many other Chromebooks)
- upgradeable! you can install a bigger SSD and more RAM

Long story short, this makes a great machine to either enjoy the Chromebook experience, or to install Gallium OS or Ubuntu, and get a proper Linux running machine with plenty of storage and a beautiful screen.

Niche product it may seem at the moment, I know. But me, after a few months on a Chromebook myself, do I miss my Windows laptop I gave away? Nah. Should you pay more for a decent computer? Nah.

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  • Twinkletoes Terry on 27/11/2017 - 13:31
    +1

    I wish these things would be promoted locally, they are a great product.

    This - All Canberra secondary public school students to get Chromebook in 2018

    • PainToad on 27/11/2017 - 13:52
      +2

      This

      is another example of why we'll never get this country out of debt. Let parents pay for their own devices for their offspring.

      • Hammo on 27/11/2017 - 14:30

        Other states pay for computers for their students too - i.e. NSW provides a mix of laptops, desktops, chromebooks, etc. Just not always 1 computer for every child.

      • bargaino on 27/11/2017 - 15:03

        That is very short-term thinking.

      • the urbanite on 28/11/2017 - 00:03

        Rwanda provides every kid with a laptop. If they can do it, so can we.

        • PainToad on 28/11/2017 - 09:27

          Can and should have to are two very different things.

        • Hammo on 28/11/2017 - 14:08

          Laptops suck at some things. Have you ever tried to wrangle 20-30 kids in a room at the start of a lesson when multiple batteries are flat and people have not got their chargers? :-)

  • King Tightarse on 27/11/2017 - 13:48

    This device has been much cheaper. There are a few SKUs that are essentially the same thing.
    Who knows, maybe Amazon Australia will carry them

    • [Deactivated] on 27/11/2017 - 13:51

      I have not seen that?

      • King Tightarse on 27/11/2017 - 14:00

        Wow the system killed my link from Camel x 3 in my email. Anyway, this item was $199 a few weeks back fpr the 16GB version

        • [Deactivated] on 27/11/2017 - 14:06

          was it 2gb ram, too?

        • King Tightarse on 27/11/2017 - 14:18

          @kasaresj:
          No, 4GB. If you turn your messages on, I'll send you the camel link if you want

        • [Deactivated] on 27/11/2017 - 14:24

          @King Tightarse: Can you also send me the link?

        • King Tightarse on 27/11/2017 - 14:28
          +1

          @adr8:
          done

        • [Deactivated] on 27/11/2017 - 14:39

          @King Tightarse: I would say that if you can get your hands on 16gb version at that price, it's a better bargain by far! let me know if it's still sold on Amazon, I'll update the deal (I am on my phone atm)

        • King Tightarse on 27/11/2017 - 14:47

          @kasaresj:
          Well the deal is over now, just mentioned it for price reference - if you would like to see, turn on your messages in OzBargain

        • [Deactivated] on 27/11/2017 - 15:03

          @King Tightarse: I think I did it, try now. I was deciding between this model and acer Chromebook 14 (my other deal), and if that deat was available back then, would have gone for 15 at 199..

  • Chazzmingle on 27/11/2017 - 13:50
    +1

    This is an old model, new one should be out soon: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/8/30/16222566/a…

    Doesn't mean your post isn't a bargain though!

    • [Deactivated] on 27/11/2017 - 13:52
      +1

      still a decent Chromebook I think. newer model is all metal build and not upgradeable methinks :)

  • xyron on 27/11/2017 - 15:14
    +1

    if only you could install windows on these.

    • [Deactivated] on 27/11/2017 - 15:20
      +2

      why would you want to? I bought Chromebook to get away from windows, everything I need is in web + Android apps, including Microsoft Office if I need it

      • xyron on 27/11/2017 - 15:21

        because the hardware on these is great for the price, and not everyone wants to contort their usual computing practices into a chromeOS/linux way of life.

        • [Deactivated] on 27/11/2017 - 15:25

          understandable. yes, with about 8 gb of ram and a spacious ssd it would make a great windows machine I agree. however it seems that there's no way to do that.

        • [Deactivated] on 27/11/2017 - 15:29

          however windows is so bloated and self-centric, unsafe, slow.

          it eats space and cpu, installing update after update, deciding when to reboot to install new "features" they think I need, but I have no idea what they are, I have to hunt them down and disable them, it's a lot of time I spend on system maintenance alone, why? I can just have chrome os plus Android and forget about this class of activity altogether.

        • xyron on 27/11/2017 - 15:31

          @kasaresj: im not suggesting windows is perfect, it just seems strange that google/whoever locks out the possibility of installing windows on chromebooks at the BIOS level. why? if we're willing to pay for the hardware, why does google care if we want to run our own OS on it? not even apple locks down their computers like this (and hasn't done so for at least a decade).

          the same criticism can be levelled at the new pixelbook. amazing hardware - if only you could run windows on it.

        • [Deactivated] on 27/11/2017 - 15:42

          my relationship with windows started with windows 2000 professional edition, SP4. I still think it was the most stable version of windows ever released.

          however it truly was a 2000 windows for me, because I reinstalled it 2000 times on the machine I used to learn software engineering on. the reason being that after 2-4 weeks it would slow down 50% compared with a fresh install.

          windows xp was great and light, and I knew how to keep it at bay, but after that everything went down the slope. vista! 7 felt like a breeze after vista, but 7 was no candy either! now 10, which feels like a pokemon: the damn thing is still evolving into no-one knows what, using lots of processing power for something I don't need. so dazzled and confused, I switched to Chromebook, and happy ever since.

        • King Tightarse on 27/11/2017 - 15:46

          @kasaresj:
          Go Linux Mint.
          Its the easy-peasy Windows replacement. Finally went with it as a permanent install when our last Windows 10 machine became too much of a nuisance (constant maintenance needed due to unwanted unstoppable driver and OS updates) constant 2 way info stream back to Microsoft) Windows is horrible these days, really awful since Windows 10. Linux is so stable and the learning curve is virtually nothing on Mint.

        • [Deactivated] on 27/11/2017 - 15:57

          @King Tightarse: I have had my share messing with distros in older days, Ubuntu et al, a few exotic flavours here and there. Mint included. But it all feels too much, I don't need all those tools bells and whistles. I don't do gaming, don't edit audio or video, I take perfect photos, so I don't fiddle with them either.

          all I do on my personal devices is: upload, download, browse, watch movies and photos, remote desktop to my servers in the cloud where I do my work. chrome os is plenty for that purpose. don't want to mess with a whole new os now, too old perhaps he he

        • King Tightarse on 27/11/2017 - 16:37
          +1

          @kasaresj:
          Yes well I use a Chromebook for most things but my wife uses the Mint lappy and there aren't many people less intersted in tech than her. The reason we went over to Mint is that its actually far less hassle than Windows. Every second weekend I would have to find solutions to unwanted automatic driver updates (thanks W10) and other unstoppable "improvements", long period of "Windows is updating" and other joys.
          Linux Mint has crossed the bridge and is actually less hassle than Windows 10 for us now. Has been rock solid stable, no special nerd-club understanding required, no driver problems. It is laid out much like Windows 7. Very happy with it and very happy with not having to screw around with Windows any more.
          There is another fairly ingenious solution that might just be up your alley - I was considering putting this on the lappy but went with Mint…
          Cloudready. Its a OS that makes any old computer a Chromebook. It's a mature development and very versatile. Have a look>
          https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/7/11173836/neverware-cloudre…

  • ourcom on 27/11/2017 - 16:21

    Nice deal op. Wish I could get touch screen as well. Don't mind to pay a little more for that.

    • [Deactivated] on 27/11/2017 - 16:33

      Search for "chromebook" on Amazon US site once in a while, they do good deals on them on and off. Plenty of touchscreen options.
      However I think there's still a lot of work to be done to get a decent touchscreen chromebook.

      The current models are too bulky. Even 10-11" ones. They are too small to be useful laptops, and too bulky to be useful tablets.
      For larger models 13-15" touch screen is just a nice to have feature I think, one wouldn't use it very often apart from some light gaming, which would be awkward on such a big screen anyway.

      unless your use cases are different?

      But at the moment I would say chromebooks need to get much more streamlined and light before we see useful touchscreen ones.

      For now I see it as 2 separate devices:
      - chromebook as a laptop replacement
      - tablet for light and effective touchscreen use

    • McMaferMur on 27/11/2017 - 22:07
      +1

      your wish is my command:…
      taaddaaaaaaa

      https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/345560

      • [Deactivated] on 27/11/2017 - 23:42

        shoit! that's a very good deal, and look at that one, too:

        https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/345532

        at this rate we're gonna make Chrome OS finally popular on this side of the globe, Google, commissions please.

        what kind of a person trash talks
        during a chess game?
        someone looking to get shot (c)

      • [Deactivated] on 27/11/2017 - 23:44

        ..but still too bulky to be a good "touch" device. but maybe it's just me! I need more exercise he he

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