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Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Huh. Never realized chromebooks were priced that low.

Thanks for the correction.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Chromebooks are designed to be cheap and disposable. I've seen some as low as ~$100. That doesn't mean you can't get some very expensive ones, but since they basically only allow you to use Google and a select few apps from the play store, I don't know why the expensive ones exist.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    I used to have one as my primary work device for a few years. Honestly, it was surprisingly usable once you find online analogs for all typical things you do on a computer.

    The biggest issue is you'd be using a free online service for some application, and then they start charging per month or the company goes under and you lose your work, so you have to keep finding new services and exporting your work to a common format that won't disappear to a central file system like Drive diligently.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    They are very cheap. We had to buy them ourselves for our kids, which at least gave choices. We settled n $400 because for the cost of the cheapest piece of shit laptop, we could get a high end Chromebook that ran circles around it: faster, much more durable, much lighter, multiple times battery life

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