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@LinusTechTips 2 года назад

Thank you to Wealthfront for sponsoring this video! Use our link invest.wealthfront.com/linus to open a Wealthfront investment account and get $5K managed for free.

@welshalan 2 года назад

Why didn't Anthony "recycle" an old laptop with CloudReady?

@daleykun 2 года назад

How come this isn't up on Floatplane?

@AhmedMOHAMED-hl1hd 2 года назад

linus you do know that you can get a good laptop and put chrome os on it man

@jes3d 2 года назад

misery

@Kat21 2 года назад

yes

@nimoy007 2 года назад

As a retail employee, it's good to know that the security alarms on Lenovo Duets are equally touchy in every store. -.-

@avimakkar 2 года назад

It's pretty good at mine

@doggo_woo 2 года назад

Oh, I thought that was a store alarm, not an alarm from the Lenovo.

@nimoy007 2 года назад

@@doggo_woo Nah, it's likely the sensor on the stand of the Duet because the texture makes it hard for the adhesive to stay stuck. Fortunately, this doesn't compromise the security of the actual device, but it is annoying.

@awersomeplaneguy9999 2 года назад

So true

@FinityBB 2 года назад

I used to just walk over their with the key to have it stop beeping if I saw someone start walking over there lmao. I swear you just look at it and it started going off

@battmarn 2 года назад

This video could very easily just be called “Linus figures out how to make his kid’s school laptop tax-deductible”

@deniahmetaj 2 года назад

Glad the two clickbait bots agree too. They must have a great sense of humour

@tylercarrington4369 2 года назад

@@deniahmetaj I love how we can see how many people blatantly ignored their comment😂😂

@GabrielTobing 2 года назад

Lol, smart big brain dad XD

@KillerSharkNHwk 2 года назад

I would say this but then again I’m not sure how different taxes in Canada work

@jackielinde7568 2 года назад

To be fair, some places have tax discounts on items used for school. If you live in the US, most of the things you use for college are tax deductible. Linus might have shot himself in the foot, as he used the device to make video content for sponsors (work use) for a device to be used by his child for school.

@chazmichaelmichaels88 Год назад

I worked for a learning management software company, a HUGE portion of the issues we received were from chromebook users. It was very difficult to tell people they essentially "bought the wrong laptop".

@virtual2288 Год назад

What were the issues? Did they expect to get windows or what?

@chazmichaelmichaels88 Год назад

@@virtual2288 People purchased them because of their low cost. If i recall, I believe the issue was the chromebooks being more like a tablet, which would allow certain softwares to run properly, if at all.

@lenysalangsang Год назад

@@chazmichaelmichaels88 The issue will be buying the low cost chromebook. same issue with buying that Celeron Windows laptop.

@chazmichaelmichaels88 Год назад

@Allen Chester a celeron can still run a bunch of programs (specifically the ones the company had), albeit slowly. Whereas chromebooks couldn't run a lot of those softwares.

@fearless6947 11 месяцев назад

@@chazmichaelmichaels88 you and Allen both have valid points. My mid range chromebook runs fast. $600. Yes it doesn't run all the apps. Wait 2 years and buy of ebay for half price (remember support last 5 to 7 years). I paid retail for mine 😭😭😭. It does 90 percent of what I want. I also have a laptop 🤣🤣🤣. I think people should get both a laptop and a chromebook. You should spend most of the time on the chromebook. Chromebook has better battery, clean reinstall in 5 or 10 minutes, don't need to turn off (like a smart phone), no virus but if have, just reset it, extremely hard to hack. Light weight and no fan noise. Laptop windows will last longer because you won't be using it much. I do agree laptop is better if you can only have one device. If you can have two and both have good specs, chromebook will be the one, you be using all the time

@yanille4109 Год назад

bought mine for under $100, I have a gaming pc I just get distracted so its nice to have something portable I can get school work done on. I actually do understand the criticisms, but for under $100 this shit goes hard. It fits a specific niche of users, dont buy it if you're looking to do everything a pc can

@unknown_codec_404 Год назад

I installed Pop on mine

@ZachGatesHere Год назад

Honestly I sprung a little for a nicer one (I also have a big desktop PC) and I'm finding it more enjoyable to use than my old Windows laptop.

@shanghaichica Год назад

Yeah I bought my 4 and 6 year old one for £99. I have a MacBook but I think it's pretty good for £99

@chazmichaelmichaels88 Год назад

I never looked at it that way. Great explanation.

@Temperius Год назад

@ALI How does that work Is this us dollars as mine was 200usd new and the cheapest one i could buy in my country. (Not the US)

@tfsamrtguy 2 года назад

Knowing Linus, his son will need something drop-proof.

@TheMightyZwom 2 года назад

Let's hope he got the hand-eye coordination from his mother :D

@darryljack6612 2 года назад

Its possible he did not get those genes, his son is half Yvonne. So it is likely that he can hold things like an average human being

@pyroslev 2 года назад

My kid's school uses the Education version of that and has a tough case on it by default. It's not Linus-proof. Trust me. I had replace the screen on it over break so I didn't have to pay the school for it. (It's a good machine though for a Chromebook in a very sweet spot in the market)

@thany3 2 года назад

Any kid would need something drop-proof. That's why you don't buy your kid a €1000+ laptop. In fairness, I believe the school should've provided these laptops. It makes no sense to me, to make the parents spend hundreds, just for the kids to be able to participate at all. They used to use physical books, that were also provided by the school.

@haydenw8691 2 года назад

@@thany3 Definitely agree with that. I used to build laptops for a correspondence school and some got dropped and broken badly to the point where the display was held on by the cables. These included really strong devices like the Lenovo T420 too.

@Zathren 2 года назад

"Why can't they just be good?" A great question, Linus. Truly great question.

@CarthagoMike 2 года назад

If only

@iansonofthor 2 года назад

They had so much potential.

@Isdu 2 года назад

Because why would anything be convenient?

@xXLitronicsXx 2 года назад

They can be good Like the Samsung One 🌝 But mimimi its SOOOO expensive

@ernon69 2 года назад

It's actually not, it's about the price ;)

@theyruinedyoutubeagain Год назад

I actually reached the same conclusion like Linus after a ton of research and bought a Flex 5 for my MIL when they came out in the US. One of the screws that hold the chassis together broke after 2 years though and repairing it would've cost more than the laptop itself used. Thankfully I got it for free, because the seller was dodgy when I had a technical issue and ebay gave me the money back lol.

@SpaceSaver2000 Год назад

Same, bought it for myself after much research. Did not want to bring my expensive main laptop to school.

@waterlillymiller3207 Год назад

i work in my school's tech department and laughed at the dissing of the bezels (my friend has snapped many) and the almost-snapping of the acer (which students have done. . . several times. especially with their hinges). of the devices we currently use (mostly HP G6, Dell 3100s, 3120s, and 3180s, and Lenovos) my personal favorites are the G6es. I've been using it since I was a freshman, so about three years, and they're the easiest/my favorites to open up. The only big problems we've had are with trackpad ribbons being too long, and motherboards getting fried but that's mostly been due to bad chargers.

@JDragonblade1103 2 года назад

i like to imagine his son was horrified having to tell linus he needs a chrome book.

@Kyle_v2 2 года назад

I would be

@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks 2 года назад

If i was linus I would just get him a real laptop and tell his school he ain't getting a spybook.

@dwirandypradhika6752 2 года назад

@@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks surpise, windows also spies on you. unless you're getting a thinkpad class laptop with linux pre-installed, you are buying a spybook.

@evaangelofdeath 2 года назад

@@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks Data is still being gathered unless all telemetry is killed along with keeping applications limited due to said telemetry issues. Using a schools network to a degree also allows a portion of web traffic to be monitored requiring the use of a VPN or own mobile internet service. If you really was worried about spying then you wouldn't have a google account and participating in Googles ecosystem.

@tvenningmedia4334 2 года назад

@@dwirandypradhika6752 Yeah but I think it's easier to disable telemetry and stuff like that on Windows than it would be on a Chromebook. I do not know, but if Android is anything to go by I think disabling stuff like that on ChromeOS would be far more cumbersome than it would be on Windows. Which is ironic considering the "heritage"...

@roanoconnor98 2 года назад

Linus: "knowing that he's my son, he will probably forget his charger" Me: knowing he's your son, he will probably drop it after a segue to ridge wallet.

@lemau8458 2 года назад

Nobody: Asked

@covidstinks2770 2 года назад

@@lemau8458 Did your parents ask for you? No. No they didn't.

@nit-Inundate 2 года назад

@@covidstinks2770 Man his username just reeks lmao

@sinuslebastian6366 2 года назад

@@covidstinks2770 rekt

@ErichToven 2 года назад

@@lemau8458 Im not usually one to speak of grammar in a post, but that colon is kind of hurting my brain.

@azmiraclegirl441 Год назад

I love my HP Chromebook! My company replaced my laptop with one. I hated it at first but I love how quick it is. I'm an accountant and it does Excel calculations SO MUCH FASTER than my windows one. I'm talking genuinely 5 minutes faster for the most laborious tasks (30 minute calculations take 25!). This is apples to apples with i7 processors and SSDs.

@llllIlllIllI Год назад

It must be so fun to have a dad like you lol that actually understands about games and pc things

@robert-zr1kx 2 года назад

Imagine being the BestBuy employee watching Linus mess with every chromebook and then do his little freak out when the security alarm went off.

@unfortunateonblitz4984 2 года назад

best buy employee: Linus, y r u in the chromebook section lol takes pic* this gonna be a meme

@Porkcfish 2 года назад

I took my Mom to get a Chromebook for her a few weeks ago. She set off all the alarms.

@_w_w_ Год назад

Best Buy employee should be happy there is any customer at all these days!

@sammywilliam8156 Год назад

You hear over the intercom we have an L alert 5 we have an L alert 5

@jude802 2 года назад

imagine being a fan of Valve games, waiting 18 years since the release of HL2, and then finally seeing mention of the word Borealis in an official Valve project… and it’s just Chromebook compatibility

@salilnaiskar6890 2 года назад

*pain*

@tinglemask2629 2 года назад

yeah lol

@pointydev 2 года назад

@@salilnaiskar6890 ***pain***

@slighter 2 года назад

POV: After you finished HL2, you conceived new life, raised it and got it into College before actually getting the sequel.

@bluebay0 2 года назад

Valve is just trolling us at this point. Wait, when did they not troll us?

@giacomogabellini9944 Год назад

I was quite skeptical about getting a Chromebook, because no one spoke well of them, and especially here in Italy . They call them "junk" here . , however I wanted to try to get one . I have to be honest I feel very good with it for my use . Video lectures , documents , some movies , update and maintenance of some online websites , everything I need I have it .

@Balaaazs Год назад

0:20 the best emotional change i have ever seen on a persons face he looked like he was on the verge of crying

@stephengere3937 2 года назад

Imagine walking up and seeing Linus setting off a Chromebook alarm.

@othmanhawasly 2 года назад

That's not Linus shopping, it's a voiceover

@daggern15 2 года назад

I'd immediately be concerned he dropped something

@JD-rd4pk 2 года назад

I think Linus would have felt ashamed to be caught with a Chromebook xD

@JmKrokY 2 года назад

Bruh

@internetusername9593 2 года назад

this timeline fucking sucks

@sethcooper5197 2 года назад

As someone who is an IT support for 10 primary schools, at least half of my week is spent repairing, maintaining, and setting up Chromebooks for students. It's so painful.

@chrisn5956 2 года назад

Hey stupid question but why do so many schools have chromebooks? Or do the schools instruct the students to get chromebooks?

@catharinrin 2 года назад

@@chrisn5956 It’s because it’s one of the cheapest options so it’s easy to supply for an entire school

@coleeto2 2 года назад

@@catharinrin sounds line Chromebooks are easier to lock down? Which would be pretty important for young children, most parents aren't as tech savvy as Linus

@Verpal 2 года назад

@@chrisn5956 It is locked down, easier to setup remote management, easier to operate loan program, cheap and google subsidize chromebook in some countries.

@thesmashtvnetwork 2 года назад

@@catharinrin it not cheap end up costng more to repair

@kellyoneal5498 Год назад

Sent my daughter to college with an older but still very capable HP mobile workstation laptop... A few months later had to get her a Chromebook to have something light (and disposable) with long battery life, because their textbooks and lab manuals are now digital copies or online and she needed it in chem lab. Got her a 13.3" Toshiba Chromebook 2. BTW, some models of Chromebooks have ssd/emmc drives that can be removed and upgraded, so running a different OS later is possible (assuming the rest of the hardware is good enough) and there are guides out there on the web how to do this.

@pandanarkystudios5198 Год назад

Yo, I had a chance to play with a Framework Laptop. Holy crap! No wonder Linus is invested, it's gotta be the best idea since the ssd. A fully upgradable laptop. The drawback seems to be that you have to wait a little while for parts to become available, but it seems like a seriously solid idea if you wanna game on the go

@philtkaswahl2124 2 года назад

Son: "Dad, I need a Chromebook for school." Linus: "Our family has been dishonored. Shameful display! I mean, seriously, look at that picture quality, and those bezels. Eugh."

@nicolasrodriguez5054 2 года назад

*proceeds to flex a modded Zephyrus Duo 16 at elementary school obliterating even the school main server*

@AURON2401 2 года назад

Shamefur Dispray*

@AMan-xz7tx 2 года назад

his son had to be equally horrified at that thought as well

@nicolasrodriguez5054 2 года назад

@@AURON2401 shame fur, dis-pray?

@justinl8791 2 года назад

Correction: Shameful DISPRAY!

@finchhawthorne1302 2 года назад

The issue with school issued or required chrome books and iPads that a lot of people who grew up with the one computer in the back corner of the library or who got a laptop for accessibility don’t clock is the ridiculous oppressive restrictions and surveillance placed on “education” software. Time locks and software restrictions on something you’re forced to buy that remain restricted and may even remain attached to their network long after you should leave it.

@barrettburns9979 2 года назад

If the Chromebook is now owned by the school you can power wash it at anytime, removing the school software

@barrettburns9979 2 года назад

*not

@NigelMelanisticSmith 2 года назад

Those restrictions are often required by the School Board or Government in those areas. In America, it's required by law to have some form of Internet Filtering for school children, so if there's a mandatory device, it often will have mandatory bloat to meet regulatory spec

@isaackvasager9957 2 года назад

@@barrettburns9979 Yes, as long as it's not part of the schools domain membership. If it is, then powerwashing will not even work.

@freshbread5373 2 года назад

Yes, I’m in high school and am so lucky that we have macs. Our districts it director tried so hard to get us the freedoms to not have those shitty chrome books. It was difficult because google practically pays districts to go chrome. To do who knows with your data

@geneanthony3421 9 месяцев назад

Got a $400 Chromebook for $100 as an openbox and it's honestly quite nice. Feels good and responsive. Lenovo and the battery life is awesome. Even sitting around for over a month when it was off I came back to a full battery. I actually think it's the Lenovo you were looking at.

@ProPGOfficial 8 месяцев назад

Alternate title: My WORST Nightmare | Buying a Chromebook for my Son

@barsx7634 2 года назад

"Why can't they just be good?" is pretty much the whole point of this video.

@juliannaaka-babayega8941 2 года назад

There ya go! First intellegent comment!! ;)

@Cyan101 2 года назад

Problem is, they are, if you look at 200$ laptops ofc they will max out watching youtube

@GreenBlueWalkthrough 2 года назад

My mom had a samsung one that was on sell for under $100.

@Silvauric. 2 года назад

Yes.

@JamesR624 2 года назад

@@Cyan101 Well anything to push some opinion I guess. These videos usually starts with an opinion and then only covers what validates that opinion.

@backslashio 2 года назад

Linus' son is one of the few where parents know exactly what they need to buy whereas other parents will most likely get one that only has 6 months of OS support left or have some ridiculously overpriced Samsung

@NJVArtimations 2 года назад

My mom bought me a 2016 laptop in 2018 for a price of a newer laptop that basically does better .__.

@Kitulous 2 года назад

or have a ridiculously overpriced Samsung that has 6 months of OS support left🤩🤩

@2richants 2 года назад

3 sponsored ads in 13 mins 😐 duude. Bit overkill

@yaralaterveer 2 года назад

and that's exactly the reason why I did my own research when looking for a laptop. My parents had found one with a 17 inch screen which was the same price as the laptop that I eventually got (15 inch), but it had a worse processor (can't remember which one it was) and speakers (this one has ridiculously good speakers, but I barely use them since I'm usually using my earbuds). It was also more expensive, so I definitely don't trust my parents when it comes to look for stuff like computers

@denischiosa4496 2 года назад

@@yaralaterveer I am looking for a 15 inch too, which one did you pick?

@Ytvideowatcherperson 5 месяцев назад

I wanted something 11inches for writing/word processor. Found a chromebook with touchscreen, 8 gb ram 128 gb storage and a 2ghz processor for $180. Cheaper than most Tablet+rubber keyboard combos and better sized than any 14 inch laptop, which arent available at the price anyway. I have a 14inch ultrabook, a 15.6inch workstation with a quadro, will see which gets more use.

@jeffsmith441 9 месяцев назад

Yes, the Lenovo Flex 5. Imo, it is by far the best bang for the buck. The Webcam was my only gripe. The speakers aren't great either, but most laptop speakers suck. Other than that, it is the most versatile for the money. The USI pen compatibility is a huge plus too!

@bradleymickna3432 2 года назад

I know you guys like to talk about repairability on this channel. I work in the tech department at a high school and once warranty runs out on these things, being able to buy a screen or battery for $30 and swap it out is huge. Those are the two things I see broken most and they are the easiest to fix. Some windows laptops aren’t even that easy.

@Zertehq 2 года назад

its also nice for schools that deploy all the same brand and model of chromebook to be able to have those spares on hand and be able to make 10 min repairs on campus, my high school bought the chrombooks for the students as part of the school fees for that reason.

@Monsuco 2 года назад

I work in a school district's IT department. A whole bunch of the Chromebooks we're buying this year are still using the same screen models as the Chromebooks we're currently retiring because they're no longer supported. This basically makes screens kinda "free" for us because we can harvest them from the units we're ecycling. Kids break A LOT of screens so that's good.

@The_Forge_Master 2 года назад

Thankfully I went to high school just before the rollout of Chromebooks, but during the time where schools were rolling out tech to their students. My school had decent enough Windows machines and few restrictions on what could be installed on them. My bread and butter for games on that thing was Minecraft, Portal 2, and Kerbal Space Program.

@Zertehq 2 года назад

@@Alexander-jr8nw I got a E15 gen2 with a Ryzen 7 5700x for about $900au with the Black Friday sale and it’s the best laptop for the price, I love it.

@sullivandamn 2 года назад

I knew watching an LTT video there would be some sort of gaming on a Chromebook

@Sarj_ent 2 года назад

These bots must like your name or something lol

@shubhrajani5785 2 года назад

@@Sarj_ent yeah lol 😂

@sullivandamn 2 года назад

@@Sarj_ent smh, never had this happen before

@SpaceRanger187 2 года назад

Until they hack an Xbox to run PC games then ehhh

@blackravenX 2 года назад

I should've seen that coming.

@Henfredemars Год назад

I appreciate the disclosure. It’s a small detail that shows you care about fair and unbiased evaluation.

@allylind9597 7 месяцев назад

in most schools in the US, you can't even choose what chromebooks you use, you HAVE to use the school-issued computers and if you try to bring in your own computer (chromebook or not) they won't allow you to use them in class.

@poisonempress 2 года назад

Linus' son is lucky to have a tech savvy father who knows exactly what to look for in these things, makes using a Chromebook a lot smoother that way. But I feel old when a kid is taking a laptop to school, not a laptop in sight in my schools until my final two years lol

@requice8926 2 года назад

@@-opus shush

@-opus 2 года назад

@@requice8926 no

@requice8926 2 года назад

@@-opus oh okay

@thenonexistinghero 2 года назад

Linus should've just gotten him a crazy gaming laptop. When teachers ask him about why he doesn't have a Chromebook, he can just tell them that Chromebooks are for peasants.

@ripjawsquad 2 года назад

@@-opus look who's talking lmao

@Chewychewychoochoo 2 года назад

I'm happy that Linus understands the B.S. with "premium" Chromebooks.

@rahulmenon4357 2 года назад

That's like "premium" french fries

@ehhthing 2 года назад

I do actually know someone (former ChromeOS Dev @ Google albeit) uses a Pixelbook as his main laptop. Obviously can't just live with ChromeOS, so as a Linux user he has Crouton with Wayland and Sway and some magic that gets that to actually work (no idea). I think the main reasoning is that the Pixelbook is a really nice laptop and that cros is a nice OS.

@un_lucio 2 года назад

@Prince Cooper I beg to differ: premium TP is way more useful and makes way more sense than a premium chromebook :D Indeed my ass loves premium toilet paper, but can't really say the same about any chromebook 😆

@JohanAntonissen 2 года назад

@@ehhthing indeed, Im also a high end chromebook user and i love it. the reason i went for chromebook is the linux integration and the fact that i find windows an absolute pain to work with. Chromeos is nice and elegant. And its also super easy to deploy some containers, code some stuff and dont forget it has amazing battery life. For quite some time i debated to buy a macbook but I like to stay in the google ecosystem because i have a house full of google home products and a pixel phone (and soon a pixelwatch). I think a premium chromebook as main driver is something that is done by people that would choose to use linux as their default OS but also likes to have the convenience of being able to run default apps without the hassle.

@rocknrollzebra 2 года назад

@@JohanAntonissen I wonder how many users bought one JUST for the great battery life. As I understand it, high-end Windows laptops are improving-slightly-but-still-poor in this regard, compared to Macbooks and Chromebooks.

@jjtreads5472 Год назад

I have a HP chrome book x2 and I love it, it’s a tablet when I need it. It also has a detachable keyboard. It’s full metal case dosen’t hurt either. Love it.

@jpoodle 5 месяцев назад

I just bought a new one, reminds me of my old android. I like that system! It’s simple. No more windows crashing/updating/antivirus yadayada. I like it so far, works for my work with the online android apps and the keyboard is ace. Fast too. I got the lenovo 3i chromebook

@TheeGrandpoobah 2 года назад

Been working the Chromebook for the last 2 yrs in a school environment. The main issue is not the OS, it is the manufacturing side. Cheap build materials, where screws fall out/ left hinge screw mountings breaks after the amount of usage these CB going through in an average school day and/or @home. Plus the general kids handling/ carrying in school bag...ect just being kids. Also be very warry about repair costs, especially replacing the glass. Some cheaper models, its cheaper just to buy a new 1.

@milesborkowicz632 2 года назад

My school-issued chromebook lost a hinge. Not broken, LOST. It completely snapped off without any heavy wear and tear. I had to be without a computer at school for 3 weeks before it was fixed. So glad I'm out of high school and still against the chromebook.

@HayDog322 2 года назад

I went to a rural highschool and they had Chromebook carts in most classes. Some of them had mobile processors from galaxy 3 smart phones. they had trouble running flash games

@iZehta 2 года назад

I handle the IT for a school district that deals exclusively in special needs students, middle/high school age. They’re basically as disposable as pencils at this point.

@HighVoltageMadness 2 года назад

@@iZehta exactly

@syarifairlangga4608 2 года назад

Capitalist utopia. More E-waste

@kozmaz87 2 года назад

Also the way I see it... in school things are broken or stolen so there is little point in getting a premium chromebook broken/stolen in school if the mid-tier sensible one is also available... and Linus's reasons are also valid.

@the_infinity_ Год назад

10:14 running hl2 is a realy low bar they got it to work on the original xbox (bearly) so anyting useing semi modern hardware should be able to run it

@jdbb3gotskills Год назад

I understand saving the trees and all but there's something about writing and reading on paper that sticks into the memory bank. Plus it's not as bad for the eyes.

@hayamitakahashi4520 2 года назад

Chromebooks actually do make sense for schools. Cheap 'individual unit' prices mean even cheaper bulk purchase prices, and with ChromeOS's deplopyment options, it means that these machines are pretty easy to set up and manage from an IT technician's view.

@michielo5162 2 года назад

They make sense for schools. but they suck really really hard for the user, a shame some schools force chromebooks

@netiosys4677 2 года назад

The kids at my little sisters school still manage to "break" them and watch p*** somehow

@gravitowl 2 года назад

except that not a single piece of software used at our school was compatible with them, so when the macbook people had to get a different laptop because they couldnt run the software, they still couldnt, because our school only had chrome books... facepalm moment..

@Monsuco 2 года назад

It wouldn't be possible for us to maintain a 1:1 program if we had to use conventional laptops. The cost of the device would be too high and the logistical challenge of maintenance and support would be too high.

@hayamitakahashi4520 2 года назад

@@Monsuco Precisely my point. With these cheap but somewhat durable machines, and easy software management, 1:1 is so much easier! Course, you could also go green and recycle old machines.

@yeahitsme5636 2 года назад

to be fair the chrome books are REALLY good at what they’re built for. like if you’re basically just writing papers and researching and that sort of thing then it’s all you really need. i’m in college and i’ve been using one and it work perfect

@Remon_ 2 года назад

Yeah though i would argue it also depends on what you study. It lends itself way better to text etc, but doing something like programming is probably going to suck or using something like ltspice for electronics simulation, in which case you would have to jump through the hoop of doing crouton install anyway. In which case like linus said, it would be better to just get a machine that runs windows/linux, since you would probably also wont some hardware to for stuff like that i would assume.

@Jazzboy_Jh 2 года назад

But there is a point where the chromebooks they buy in bulk for the kids are so bad they literally cannot handle scrolling through a 2 page google doc. I can say from personal experience.

@andrewgarcia3136 2 года назад

@@Jazzboy_Jh docs is so bloated now you damn near need a 2.5ghz multicore setup, 2c2t may or may not cut it

@halogeek6 2 года назад

Raspberry pi is cheaper and you will learn more putting it together then they are gonna teach you in most schools.

@osheroth 2 года назад

Nah it's a POS, 100%. I'd rather be working with a pen and paper than withstanding that hunk of junk which resets and slows down all the time even though it has a Core i7 8tg gen on it.

@sammywilliam8156 Год назад

I like how you give your honest opinion and thoughts on a product and you don't just say oh yes the best thing ever is because they're giving you a paycheck you are a respectful trustworthy and dignified Chrome OS might not be absolute perfection but at least it's better than Windows 10 or windows 8

@kirby6-kg8nj 8 месяцев назад

It should also be noted that Chromebooks released in 2021 and further will get 10 YEARS of support. This was just announced by Google recently. That is amazing.

@darryljack6612 2 года назад

Linus: An expensive chrome book is still a chrome book. Also Linus: Gold Plated Xbox Controller.

@vava995 2 года назад

Gold plated? They cast it out of solid gold.

@darryljack6612 2 года назад

@@vava995 Ur right i said the wrong thing, but you still get the point of what is being said.

@TheRavenCoder 2 года назад

To be fair, they either sold or are trying to sell the controller to recoup most of the cost of getting it made. It's not like he is daily driving it.

@darryljack6612 2 года назад

@@TheRavenCoder lol ik, but Linus seemed dead set on keeping that thing, without Yvonne's input i think we would have been seeing it in every home video of his.

@88porpoise 2 года назад

@@darryljack6612 nah, I think that was mostly show. He said on a WAN Show that he approved the project because he expected it would be easy to sell (it wasn't) and worst case scenario it can just be melted down.

@ibindude 2 года назад

They're actually really useful for system admins. Mass software depolyments and simple enough that the kids can't mess them up as easily. But you're right, they've gotten better with android support and Linux beta. As someone who's set these up in schools, I understand why they did it.

@echonuim 2 года назад

I geniuenly dont understand why my school opted for cheap windows laptops that you cant download anything on as opposed to chromebooks. Without us having the ability to use downloads it is just a glorified web browsing device that costs twice the price of a chromebook and causes tons of management headache with figuring out updates whenever I'm doing IT assistant as one of my classes.

@philipwrighton 2 года назад

@@echonuim Cheap Window laptops that are just a walking security risk. From computers, to the potential of kids infecting the network to everything. ChromeOS isolates it before it even gets out, allows for cheap, and if you're careful. You're paying the 100 dollars less for a more secure device, easier managed, easy to repair (You can run a computer class and the kid doesn't need to know any complex computers). Why spend more for computers that will inevitably cost more to run, cost more to maintain, leads them to cyber attacks, can be misused and requires more time to program? Like seriously. Why would you go for windows laptops?

@BCMikuFan 2 года назад

@@philipwrighton easier to resell?

@AlexJohnson-be3tj 2 года назад

Easier to control and block stuff on

@robertg7249 2 года назад

yes i also love censuring children from a young age

@MilkyGamesOfficial 9 месяцев назад

My school is one of the few in my area that still uses windows and the grade below me got really good hps while I have cheap acers that the motherboard breaks if you drop it. I feel bad for those with chromebooks

@benjaminwatson543 Год назад

The auto-update thing is a nightmare for regular users, but a real boon for people who don't mind a bit of modding. End-of-life'd chromebooks become exceptionally cheap while still often being great pieces of hardware. Slapping a lightweight linux distro on there gives you fabulous value. I used a chrombook pixel 2013 that I got for like $200, which boasts an incredible build quality, for years on linux, and it was great.

@gmt1 2 года назад

I remember revisiting my highschool years later to find they'd swapped out all the Windows laptops with Chromebooks, I felt so bad for the students. The laptops were nothing special, but BYOD was allowed. We'd play Halo CE in the library and snatch up all the ethernet ports. Played a long cat and mouse game of finding websites the school had yet to ban, especially web games and anime streaming. Can't do any of that now, school internet and devices are super locked down (can't even open task manager or settings on Windows).

@Daschickenify 2 года назад

That's fucked, can't even open task manager? How are you supposed to close unresponsive programs?

@ziondesertranger 2 года назад

@@Daschickenify at my school you just don't

@generallyunimportant 2 года назад

@@Daschickenify with the power button (:

@benschneider3413 2 года назад

@@Daschickenify I guess you just use the phsical on/off button from the housing

@purpl3grape 2 года назад

hold delete while turning on the laptop next time :)

@dustys5512 2 года назад

I remember seeing Chromebooks with Core i7 processors in them. Kind of overkill, like, very very overkill, unless you plan on hacking it and installing a different operating system on it. 🙂

@kevcreations5861 2 года назад

That's basically what I did lol put it in dev mode and installed popOs as a daily driver

@420bran 2 года назад

the original pixelbook with a i7 maxed out with ram was a beast!

@toriless 2 года назад

Yep, i7 and i9 are great for Windows as long as you 16 GB ram and 522 GB eMMC.

@jojag5 2 года назад

As an owner of the i5 Pixelbook, I love the overhead. Yes, it is "overkill", but at the same time I never have to worry about running low on RAM or processing power. I can hook up my laptop to a 4k display (which I did all the time in college) and it doesn't lose a beat. I used to have videos and lectures playing on the monitor while I took notes on the laptop display. Most $300 Chromebooks (or Windows laptops for that matter) can't output that many pixels with videos and web apps running. It either crashes or overheats in my experience.

@michaelcorcoran8768 2 года назад

Yeah, although you can make the argument that a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is overkilled too.

@arghyaprotimhalder5592 6 месяцев назад

I have a hp Chromebook it's very old it was for school, I don't use ot but last 1-2 months break in the system installed monjaro it's running well. I don't habe practical use as i have windows laptop for work and gaming PC at home . But I won't let anything to waste

@ag1211x 8 месяцев назад

@9:30 Impressive Xi audio dac + headphone amplifier!

@Nick85 2 года назад

I bought a chromebook in 2015. It was a 15 inch acer with 16 GB HD and 4 GB of ram for $250. I don't have a lot to spend on computers and I don't game. This was easily the best computer purchase I've made in the past 10 years. The key points being battery life, portability, ease of use and surprisingly, a linux conversion to GalliumOS with a 256 GB HD upgrade later in life (in which it excels as a work laptop). There are loads of options and they are not easy to sift through, but when you find the right one for your use case they are amazingly capable machines for productivity on the go.

@vgamesx1 2 года назад

I guess if you must have a new laptop sure, but you can find some pretty nice used mid-tier laptops and desktops for ~$250, heck if you don't need an entire laptop just something to use, you can get broken ones / the motherboard alone for as little as $30 and plug it into a monitor with the disclaimer that not all laptops will work like this or be easy to setup. I picked up a thinkpad T440 motherboard for $20 and it has similar specs to your chromebook, an i5-4300U, 4GB on-board ram and I separately bought a 16GB msata ssd for $7, I've been using it as my homelab PC for the last 3 years, running pi-hole, nextcloud and a handful of other things, but it's also a perfectly fine web browsing PC, it's worked great so far.

@gwenward2141 2 года назад

I feel like this Chromebook requirement might lead to Linus having some opinions to share at the PTA meeting

@ZNotFound 2 года назад

Linus understands that chromebooks are cheaper to acquire for kids to use in school.

@jody5661 2 года назад

@@ZNotFound sure, but either way the school should be providing them themselves. Why should I have to pay for something that they will claim software ownership over and lockdown beyond my control?

@ZNotFound 2 года назад

@@jody5661 Maybe there was an option to buy your own Chromebook and Linus opted for that. In that case, not only would Linus have gotten his son a better chromebook he also had an opportunity to make a RU-vid video.

@harrys2331 2 года назад

@@ZNotFound This. It has more to do with parents wanting their kid's to have their own individual chromebooks and not ones that may have been shared with other kids/touched. It's a covid precaution type situation.

@rhamlet5290 Год назад

Schools shouldn't be allowed to lock kids into shitty mega company monopoly ecosystems by forcing MS and Google. I remember OpenOffice back then, now effectively replaced by LibreOffice. No reason kids shouldn't be able to use LibreOffice on Ubuntu instead.

@3scat 8 месяцев назад

my child's school used windows 11 laptops, and they told us we have to buy a minimum of corei5 9th gen, they are pricey, but we do have to buy them for our children. they do also need i graphics card. i had no idea what to buy so i told the school to buy the kids a good performance laptop, they gave us the Samsung laptop, its been excellent, glad international schools don't use chrome books.

@Mancrucial 4 месяца назад

as using a chromebook every day you could run linux and use hyper threading and crostini gpu support to play games at a decent frame rate of 100 to 40 fps of low settings in roblox and minecraft with big mods

@rumblpak 2 года назад

Two notes: 1. Crouton is officially deprecated and 2. While running steam on Linux on crostini is great, Google still blocks exec from SD cards mounted by Linux preventing you from installing games on external storage. With most chromebooks made prior to 2021 (and even now) only including 32GB internal storage, gaming is not the greatest experience yet.

@user-nj6ku8yx9p 2 года назад

Not sure why the "yet," it's a no-brainer that Chromebooks would never be great in gaming for almost every case scenario. But it's sad to see Crouton getting discontinued, it was honestly fun just messing around with an desktop environment that looks really odd for it to be a Chromebook (which also feels 100% more usable IMO). With the bonus of being able to play games, amid the driver issues. While GalliumOS 3.1 is already two years old with last update being June 2021, it's almost a dead project as well at this point.

@adsensiv 2 года назад

It's pretty awful to see these things essentially turning into e-waste once the OS is no longer officially supported while they would still be perfectly usable if they just didn't artificially lock them down

@MPereira75013 2 года назад

@@adsensiv you can keep using them for years, the laptop doesn't stop working all out of a sudden.

@adsensiv 2 года назад

@@MPereira75013 I assume stopped support means no more security updates which is a pretty big deal for a device which is primarily intended for tasks such as browsing the web...

@TheHenirik 2 года назад

@@adsensiv end of support for android devices commonly means you cant update your apps much longer, and i expect these to be the same (although i haven't tried a chromebook) so unless you have things you could run the old version of without too much issues they pretty much become unusable

@shinsoku9128 2 года назад

9:05 you could also run it in a kernel-based virtual machine (kvm) to pass the graphic performance directly into the vm. then you won't have worse performance. the downside of that would be that it is quite hard to setup correctly

@yotoprules9361 2 года назад

with the added overhead of the VM on the very weak CPU, it may still hurt performance. With most of the chromebooks having celerons (many of which are slower than core 2 duos)

@smileyguyz 2 года назад

@@yotoprules9361 Yep. I got a HP stream 14 with the Celeron n4020 for school work and general shenanigans. Identical specs to my school issued Lenovo 100e. I knew buying it that it wouldn't be a gaming machine, but I still wanted to try just out of curiosity. The only playable games I have found to be were Half Life, and Enclave. Anything else would just peg the N4020 and UHD 600 graphics at 100% while getting about 10fps. Honestly though, 10fps is playable for me if it wasn't for the horrible frame times.

@shinsoku9128 2 года назад

@@yotoprules9361 yes that is true. you will get a little worse performance than if you were running a windows machine. but since the graphics output will directly be passed on to the vm, it won't even nearly be as bad as if it was just a regular vm.

@peters.7428 2 года назад

@@yotoprules9361 My old laptop has 32-bit core 2 duo celeron. I am not sure what model, but it shows that some celerons are core 2 duos.

@reggiep75 2 года назад

@Litfa Tua 4 - Do you do gay dogs, or pigeons, who collect lush & old x86 CPU's? I'm deep into that kink... If not, then p155 0ff! 😐😑😐😑😐

@s4rgejnr Год назад

My school in the uk uses HP Probooks - theyre pretty good

@CasperLabuschagne Год назад

I have used only Linux since the very first version of Ubuntu was released and I used Linux alongside Windows for a decade before that. However, my next laptop will be a high-end Chromebook on which I will run Chrome, Android and Linux programs/apps. This won't replace my desktop Linux machine which is due for upgrade soon but the Chromebook will replace my obsolete iPad which largely serves as a media-consumption device. Presently the HP 14c Chromebook is the most likely candidate with at least a 256Gb SSD and 8Gb (or more) of RAM with an i5 processor.

@secrets60 2 года назад

Requiring a chromebook makes close to 0 sense for me. If the school really wants to control what the device is used for, they should be supplying the devices and setting custom permissions. Imagine buying something and then having someone else tell you what you are allowed and aren't allowed to do with it.

@philipcooksey3422 2 года назад

It's not too dissimilar from college textbooks

@Gamer-nc8qp 2 года назад

EXACTLY

@rockking1379 2 года назад

This for real! My oldest daughter was issued a chrome book by the school. And at her moms house she uses it. And it has the school restrictions on it. At my house she sits at her desk, uses her full sized desktop and carries on doing her work, and browses whatever else she wants on the side.

@tanmaypanadi1414 2 года назад

they want to have their cake and eat it too.

@TejWC 2 года назад

Most school's IT departments don't have the time or knowledge to lock down 100s of laptops in a secure way. Chromebooks also pushes to buck to parents to buy the hardware rather than the school.

@00kidney 2 года назад

Linus son: dad, I got something to tell you. Linus: don't worry son, I'm not mad. Did you get a bad grade? Son: no, it's worse than that. Linus: you started smoking? Son: worse. Linus: you got in a fight? ... Son: worse. ... Linus: I was FORCED to buy a Chromebook….

@bhagwandasramchandani6845 2 года назад

You have brought dishonour to the Family son .

@vibaj16 2 года назад

Getting in a fight is worse than smoking?

@clipz978 2 года назад

🤣

@Maxamundi 2 года назад

@@vibaj16 came here to comment this lol

@thany3 2 года назад

The kid should be glad it didn't have to be a macbook then. If my kid's school would require that, it would mean an immediate transfer. Luckily, they don't because I'm not a parent. But if I was, I'd be furious.

@voiddoctor 8 месяцев назад

Lol, my highschool is one of the last holdouts in our state, with our media program (the better program) being all Mac based, and our engineering program being all windows.

@SamJoex Год назад

2:53 poorly aged things

@erebuxy 2 года назад

I remember Chromebook Pixel. They were very well-designed, had good quality (and were pretty expensive as a Chromebook). I knew several friends who bought it and flashed it with Ubuntu.

@JamesScholesUK 2 года назад

It was genuinely a really close call between a Chromebook Pixel and a Lenovo or Dell Ultrabook when I was shopping for a dev machine in 2014. In the end it came down to which one I found on offer first

@kugelblitzingularity304 2 года назад

@@JamesScholesUK I mean yall savages just gon flash it with linux anyways so the OS dont even matter lmao, if only we all have that power

@methamphetamememcmeth3422 2 года назад

@@JamesScholesUK Why not just buy a decent fucking laptop and flashing Linux on it? Hell, you can even flash CloudReady OS on it if you want to limit yourself with ChromeOS.

@JacobT 2 года назад

Only Linus would measure the CPU temp of a chrome book while it’s playing a RU-vid video while in Best Buy.

@joel3399 2 года назад

It's funny because he is doing that not as a youtuber but as a parent 😂

@JacobT 2 года назад

@@joel3399 yeah😂

@lewislu5157 2 года назад

tried that on a bunch of windows laptops myself lmao

@FusionC6 2 года назад

i used to download game demos and burn them on cds at best buy LOL cause my internet was shit

@ilovefunnyamv2nd 2 года назад

its the least demanding typical use case. believe it or not we've had some really craptastic laptops in the past, that had basically no cooling. they were under the keyboard / trackpad and would heat up enough to be uncomfortable to touch. Alternatively we had a lot of bottom vented only laptops, which just suffocated if you didn't put them on a tabletop. No resting it on your thighs either... Those were the dark days, now you only hear about that when something catches fire or its a gaming laptop with an honest to goodness graphics card installed.

@DreamCars-nt3zz Год назад

how did you launch to see how much cpu usage is the video using? thanks in advance

@DustySquitoNM Год назад

For what it's worth, I have a Acer chromebook that I bought back in 2017-2018 that still gets updates every week, the 14" touch screeen still works, and the battery life is still close to 10 hours of real life use (VNC Viewer and RU-vid primarily). I paid less than $200 for the thing on sale, and I've never once treated it kindly. I've honestly been pretty impressed with it, and it's the price bracket where I'm willing to lock it and step away from it at a coffee shop, while my gaming laptop is something I would never do that with. Also...my 2018 Chromebook definitely has a Linux developer mode. Not sure why they've said it's only 2020+ models.

@regularflurfy8174 2 года назад

I used a Lenovo Duet as a secondary device before switching to a 2020 iPad Air, and for the price, it’s really a neat little device. I’m still impressed by the build quality, and as far as Chromebooks go, it would be the one I would recommend to anyone in the market for one, IF ONLY it didn’t have an ARM chip. Theoretically that would make it better for Android app compatibility, but in my testing it didn’t hold a candle to x86 Chromebooks in the same price point

@leonidas14775 2 года назад

ARM is great for battery life. Unfortunately many arm devices don't have UEFI which means your options are limited if you want to install linux on it.

@bbbbbbb51 2 года назад

@@leonidas14775 When I was looking for a cheap upgrade from my *very* dated laptop that I revived with Linux for a while, I nabbed a Flip C434 for super cheap because the corner of the bezel (not even part of the visible display) had a minor crack in it that was even hidden when the screen was open. Has served me well as a lightweight Linux machine. I don't exactly grasp why people shit on Chromebooks so heavily, but I guess my use case was pretty niche among the ocean of users.

@brentboymebob8754 2 года назад

@@leonidas14775 The Duet has Cadmium, which is an actively developed version of Linux for ARM Chromebooks on bare metal. At the moment, everything is supported except external displays, video decoding, and cameras. However, it only runs Wayland based environments (and the dev doesn't even want to implement Xorg support), and the performance is good since hardware acceleration is supported, but it can be relatively sluggish in a lot of scenarios.

@leonidas14775 2 года назад

@@bbbbbbb51 That's good you got a good deal on a chromebook and made it do what you want. The problem with ARM is that while x86 systems and linux are mostly interchangeable, each ARM device is at the mercy of a developer specifically supporting that device. That can be a problem for example if you own an old or uncommon android phone. And its not as simple as swapping a DTB file usually. Most ARM devices are not SystemReady, which aims to increase OS compatibility

@heyitsevan758 2 года назад

In college, I worked for the tech department at my old high school, and the fixes for Chromebooks were SO easy compared to Apple and Window devices.

@jennejjdkdjdj366 2 года назад

Framework

@Crowdfresser 2 года назад

Besides the mainboard of a 150$ device decides to stop working good luck getting any data Form the emmc as still a lot of people dont write down their damn account data. Also hardware repairs for 150$ devices are just not worth it in the Most cases.

@lovemadeinjapan Год назад

Dell Windows laptops are still golden for hardware fixes. But swapping the entire Chromebook is probably easiest for the tech department.

@kishascape Год назад

Also contrary to the consoomer article referenced in this fad video they’ve always been Linux capable since the beginning. I did it in 2011, you can even do it on most of the ARM architecture chrombooks as well.

@Random22 Год назад

As someone who currently works at my high school tech department, I can somewhat agree. The only issue is the screw holders breaking every now and then because of how they're built.

@robloskid5865 Год назад

3:07 i had that one and over a year 1 year! The hinge plastic snapped off then the actual metal hinges broke CUTTING into the display wires making it crash a-lot until it turned off now its never used with its display hanging off of old bent cut wires dont buy!

@cryingcrown 8 месяцев назад

Linus must be happy now that framework makes chromebooks

@Gh0sb0ss 2 года назад

Linus is the type of person to put the classroom chromebook back in the wrong slot

@erlandjohansen7195 2 года назад

Apparently I am too old to understand this comment

@GremlinPuke 2 года назад

In some schools they don't take their Chrome books home, so they have to put them in this big box that has slots for every chrome book to sit in and charge

@yoursincerely-soda 2 года назад

he feels like the guy that had his chromebook break so they had to get him one of the even more crappy ones

@thephantommarauder7748 2 года назад

On purpose*

@thephantommarauder7748 2 года назад

@@GremlinPuke It's not usually a big box at some schools sometimes it's a massive drawer that can be moved around on wheels.

@jordanclerkin1998 2 года назад

Honestly, I got an Acer R11 chromebook years ago and it was fantastic for my use case at college. I used it to complete basic reports using Word, or take notes and they were fantastic. 10+ hours battery life is amazing, plus it only weighs 1.1kg. It was perfect to just throw in my backpack for daily use, and I didn't have to worry about being super delicate with it. I had my PC for AutoCAD and whatnot, and my chromebook for the more basic tasks on campus. And I only paid €220 for it. Highly recommend a chromebook for those on a budget who need to do basic computing tasks. It's still working fine to this day, although the battery life has gone down from around 10/11 hours to around 6 or so, which is still more than enough.

@Soaringkiwi1 2 года назад

Yup.. find me a device in the same price range (I paid $120 for my an Acer Chromebook back in the day) that has 10 hours of battery life. I used it in college as well before I could buy a better laptop. Even then, the battery life doesn't compare unless you had a top of the line laptop.

@lennonmclean 2 года назад

hello PR dude from acer

@jordanclerkin1998 2 года назад

@@lennonmclean Yeah dude Acer paid me 500 to shill for then there haha. Nah but seriously I have nothing but good things to say about chromebooks. Windows laptops in the same price range tend to be awful.

@saffirechanning7286 Год назад

Hey dude, you sound very knowledgeable about computers! I just wanted to point out I own BOTH a HP Stream(Windows 11) and a HP Chromebook. I bought 'em both from Walmart last year. I really ENJOY using 'em BOTH at the same time!

@iceisnotlive Год назад

My highschool this year gave us really nice HP chromebooks, (I am a freshman) and i was really suprised when they gave us these chromebooks. (Granted, the highschool is the biggest in our area and arguably really well funded.)

@gargadon 2 года назад

Actually a Chromebook is "The thing students fear when they need a laptop and ask one to their parents".

@gorkskoal9315 2 года назад

YES!!

@SimonBauer7 2 года назад

true story lol. i however have the oposite thing of a chromebook. fast, a bit hotter, battery life sucks but tons of horsepower.

@Prowler1000 2 года назад

Honestly, at first I was really resistant to the idea of Chromebooks being used in schools but once I saw the price point it all makes sense. Not every family can afford laptops more than a couple hundred dollars, if they can afford that. With ChromeOS, it seems a lot like it's effectively the "it just works" of Mac in a much cheaper price point so that you know, even if you can't afford a great laptop, kids shouldn't be held back by their parents financial situation

@redtails 2 года назад

Imagine just having a room full of computers at school. Crazy idea, isn't it. Too expensive, you think? Old office Pcs are sold €25 each, or even thrown away for free

@tinglemask2629 2 года назад

@@redtails Yeah but some families arent willing to buy used products. And a lot of families also buy chromebooks not just because its cheap, but also as its simple for their children. They just want something that can do school work, and that lasts while.

@abekasper9796 2 года назад

@@tinglemask2629 don't think you got the point he meant like a computer room at school

@ziggybrady5170 2 года назад

@@abekasper9796 a computer room at a school is all well and good but what happens in times when kids are having to do homework/assignments or as has happened a lot recently have to learn from home? Chromebooks are a cheap and easy way to solve these problems compared to forking out double the price or more for a computer that can run windows

@dyarous 2 года назад

in Arizona the school give you a chromebook in freshman year and you return it after graduating

@redacted_vrvr 9 месяцев назад

framework makes chromebooks, so if you give your son a framework Chromebook you can give him a whole screwdriver kit and computer part bag for school so during recess he can just upgrade it for no reason at all

@ayeshavithanage5674 Месяц назад

Use Kerbal space program as a benchmark for some notebooks like the ASUS Vivobook 15

@alexibarra4675 2 года назад

I like that the man basically started benchmarking “laptops” in the store. I do this as well and I’m not even shopping for any 😂😂

@andresacosta5318 2 года назад

when i was looking for a laptop my girlfriend was so confused. I tried out the keyboards, trackpad. checked out the screens resolution, connectivity, specs to price. and then i bought nothing. made a list of the ones that intrigued me and researched on their internals, (is the ram soldered? what sort of drives do they use) and this was what got me into computer hardware. that week is were i learned what anything computer related meant. she was confused, cuz about 4 months prior she needed a laptop, had seen an add for a microsoft surface on instagram so she took her dad to best buy and the guy talked about how they could lower the price. she ended up paying $100 less than me. but its like, an i3 or a pentium. with 2 gb of ram and she hates the keyboard since she cant type on her lap and in the end, she didn't even use the touch screen. I ended up with a lenovo flex 5 like the one here but with 8th i5, 8gb of ram. and 256gb m.2.

@joel3399 2 года назад

@@andresacosta5318 good for you!

@ErichToven 2 года назад

I swapped ram for someone once after best buy had quoted him a $200 something price. Only I borrowed their screwdriver and did it right there at their counter for free. Did it in under a minute and I swear he shot that guy a dirty look I still think about.

@Crimin4L 2 года назад

I'd be dammed. Would it not make sense if the very school that is requiring a chrome book also provide them? (Presuming Linus's child goes to public school) How is that even remotely fair for impoverished children?

@DrakeDaraitis 2 года назад

His kids don't go to a public school, that's why.

@berto1014 2 года назад

I think Canada has less of an issue with impoverished children when compared to the US. Not to say they don't exist though.

@danielkarlsson8252 2 года назад

Here in Sweden when i went to school we were provided chromebooks for free that we than had to return to the school. If it was damaged you had to pay for the damage to get it fixed or replaced and if it was returned damaged.

@seshpenguin 2 года назад

Here in Ontario (at least for YRDSB), the way it works for students is you by default use your own device (NOT limited to Chromebooks, you can use any tablet/laptop as long as it can access the web), but you can request for the board to provide you with a device if you don't have/can afford a suitable device. It's not a bad system, since most students do already have a decent computer, and those who don't can get the assistance they need (prevents a lot of waste if the school board needed to buy devices for everyone).

@rohanpatil6168 2 года назад

in switzerland kids are provided with either a hp probook windows laptop, microsoft surface or an ipad air / pro. depends on the school

@eternylbliss2151 Год назад

Few years back bought a Chromebook at a garage sale he just kept coming down on the price without me asking it was like please take this thing I never want to see it again. There were no issues with it but I immediately hated it thinking why do people use these its like a side step from an Apple notebook.. I just bought it to flip on eBay got maybe $100 for it paid $20. Then they were making us use them at work and I really voiced my opinion on it. Now I work from home and use my custom built Windows desktop. (so thankful)

@jettison_m Год назад

I'm looking for something for writing novels- I use a SaaS writing program and will need to do research as I go, so will probably have a bunch of tabs open. I currently use my ipad but it doesn't love the SaaS software. Looking for something cheap, but light and sleek too. Any assistance in that realm?

@9tim80 2 года назад

I had the privilege of beta-testing the Cr-48 before Chromebooks were sold to the public and I still own one which I bought a couple of years ago. For the right use case (browsing, email, office, video conferencing) it's pretty solid. Coming from an info-sec perspective, having an OS on it which can be managed completely remotely and needing to literally be pried open to get a different OS on it is an enterprise IT guy's dream. It won't ever replace my gaming laptop but I feel much safer taking it out in public.

@richdaley9982 2 года назад

That's the thing. Chromebooks are not meant for most people watching LTT. Schools like them because they typically do not have enough IT support to implement something better and they are easy to lock down. They are really good for people that do not have a lot of experience with computers. A number of members of my family do not like technology so it was a pain for me to keep their 10 year old Windows laptops running but they almost never have issues with their Chromebooks.

@XecularOfficial 2 года назад

You don't need a chromebook for that anymore. Dell laptops have an autopilot feature that lets you completely manage Windows 10 remotely and lock the bios so it can't be tampered with. Better than using Chrome OS, at least

@JohnAdams-qc2ju 2 года назад

Yea I tested it as well, back then it was next to useless but it has a place like schools (but I know even 5years ago most 18-20year olds only owned a phone and had no idea how a PC really works - I foresee a tech gap developing, but with college programs and folk moving to the US likely won't be a problem - most IT jobs at around 50% are folk who moved to the US for college then work visa). However I want kids to experience a full OS and not a locked down ChromeBook - it might push them to stay away from real PCs due to it being limited environment (but getting better recently) and the crappy hardware/screens. Of course Linus' kids have real PCs but for poorer families it might be the only computer. We seen winners for PC builds often just find what they can, old hardware because people place limited value on them and think phones are what you need (and often most don't get/find an old PC) I'll end my rant there.

@oliviadrinkwine1411 2 года назад

tbh I might take one to defcon and other hacking conferences as I'll just be doing basic web browsing and not say gaming. Because I'll be to busy to game due to all the talks I'll be going to.

@Braiam 2 года назад

I don't understand the responses to your comment: managed remotely, lock down, and easy of use. As if someone that only want a device to do school work and is allergic to tech would go out of its way to mess up things with the OS.

@robertlamb4754 2 года назад

As a best buy employee, I was happy to see this and help me learn more about the Chromebooks, even though I generally avoid selling those unless the customer directly asks for it specifically

@pepsicherry6389 2 года назад

No joke but when I worked in retail and normal people were looking for a notebooks, I always did not recommend to buy Chromebooks. First they saw the price, it was lower than normal notebooks so they were interested. I did know these people had no idea it does not have Windows OS in it. To avoid the dissapointment and confusion.

@robertlamb4754 2 года назад

@@pepsicherry6389 yeah i get the same thing, first thing i say is that it is a very limited computer without the Windows OS, but some people specifically need Chrome OS or just want it to browse the web

@sharkyslegoandotherstuff Год назад

nice. chromebooks really arent good

@_w_w_ Год назад

Funny... I am a product developer in the Windows world. I love Chromebook, it's great for 85% of the population. Only if Microsoft can pull off a lightweight OS that can handle day to day task well. Unless your work require you use tools and software that are only available on Windows, you can get a great experience on Chromebook. ChromeOS is just more efficient in every way - that's me probing power rails between ChromeOS and Windows doing the same tasks.

@sharkyslegoandotherstuff Год назад

@@_w_w_ idk if its 80 percent more like about 60 programs that require a lot of power are verry popular like blender and that sort of stuff and if your a gamer a chromebook isnt gonna cut it

@andrewc31394 9 месяцев назад

you guys missed out on hands down the most bang for your buck Chromebook, the Lenovo duet 5. OLED display, 8 GB of RAM, detachable keyboard and magnetic kickstand, all for under $400. those accessories alone on a device made by companies like Samsung or Apple would be well over half that price

@AFV85 Год назад

I'm stuck on to buy one or not I never used laptop always on tablet or phone tbh can't stand window's so woth the newer one's running alot of windows stuff on higher End devices with built in antivirus and software updates running in background if I could run a 3D printing software from one then definitely would be going for one! I just don't need the laptop these days there basically obsolete to me!

@gothnate 2 года назад

I think it's really limiting for a school to require any specific operating system. Especially if the parents have to buy it, because that also excludes the inexpensive Amazon finds, like my ThinkPad T410 I paid $135 for that's capable of running Windows 10. It does need some upgrading, but even after it's said and done, it will keep up with a more modern computer to an extent, and for a fraction of the price. Right now, I'm running Linux Mint on it because it's much smoother, but with the upgrades I could get away with W11 if I wanted.

@purplehello98 2 года назад

My school allows any OS after 6th grade (they provide horrid little Chromebooks to the sixth graders.) Anyways, I got a MacBook.

@skytek7081 2 года назад

It allows them to deploy just one set of tech support training for teachers (what little they can do) and ensures that the machines should all be able to access the same resources with the same ease.

@eaglemmoomin_418 2 года назад

You won't be able to teach the kids anything if all your doing is tech support for four different major OSes and the one cheeky snot running a BSD flavour.

@traniel123456789 2 года назад

@@eaglemmoomin_418 I use arch btw

@milesfarber 2 года назад

@@skytek7081 ...then why not windows? It allows them to deploy just one set of tech support training and ensures that the machines should all be able to access the same resources with the same ease, without limiting what the laptop itself can do so it doesn't become e-waste by the end of the school year.

@realhuman4396 2 года назад

When I was in somewhere middle or elementary school Google offered free chromebooks for the whole school, but only if they agreed that they could track student cookies… needless to say, it wasn’t allowed

@svenkleinplarre9461 2 года назад

It is sad that that was needed to be said.

@SandboxerSandy Год назад

If it was my school they would've allowed it

@PrettyBoiLasagna Год назад

@Michael Rostom lol its an anecdote to begin with, what kind of proof do you expect

@reasonjefferey4644 Год назад

@Michael Rostom they are literally known for selling data and analytics from users lmao, that’s how Google makes their billions. Even fucking apple doesn’t do it as much as they do.

@reasonjefferey4644 Год назад

@Michael Rostom das the same damn thing lmao

@godofcows4649 Год назад

I hate hate hate chromebooks, but yeah for a school it makes sense. Before they switched to Chromebooks they ran mac computers and no matter what they did there was always work arounds. I literally figured out how their blocker worked and with a hex editor could make any program (Halo CE in that case) run without the blocker knowing.

@CMoore-Gaming Год назад

I have a Chromebook that I literally just use for dnd. Been working out well, it works fast and is small. Have not and would not game on it, but it does it's job.

@kristiyan03 2 года назад

9:26 Funny thing, my school chromebook allowed me to enable developer mode, so I was rocking linux during classes. Was it any good? No, but I never got into any trouble.

@Hollowbarista 2 года назад

Back in 90s. I ran Mac os on school win95 machines. Lol!

@arnox4554 2 года назад

This reminds me of us way back in the day getting a copy of the Halo CE demo and just using that to play multiplayer on the shitty school computers. lol Also, during study hour, when I didn't have anything to do, the teachers would let me just boot up UT99 on a flash drive and play that.

@YoshiLightStar 2 года назад

@@Hollowbarista How? Back in the 90's Mac OS was 68k or powerpc based(depending on the the time we are talking about )rather then x86.

@Hollowbarista 2 года назад

@@YoshiLightStar cutting corners and cheating. Was simulation.

@jonathanpritchard6464 2 года назад

I've been using a Chromebook for terminal-based dev work through crouton since 2015 (and the past 2 years through crostini). Low-end Chromebooks fill a nice and somewhat overlooked niche in computing. They trade compute power for absurd battery life (my previous 2015 Acer Chormebook was still getting 6+ hours after around 5 years of use). The $150 - $200 price tag makes me far less worried about taking it out and about where it could be damaged/broken/stolen. And at this point most all casual/productivity/school/work computing tasks are just done through a browser, so what used to be a restriction for Chromebooks really isn't much of one anymore.

@KisameSempai 2 года назад

do you still get security updates.. the fact that their an expiry on updates is the main reason discouraging me on getting a chromebook

@jonathanpritchard6464 2 года назад

@@KisameSempai They generally push security updates for around 5 years, pretty good for a sub $200 device.

@tihomirrasperic 2 года назад

@@KisameSempai replace the chromeos with some popular linux distro and the matter is solved

@maciejdev 2 года назад

"Terminal-based dev work" could you elaborate more on what that entails? I'm very curious.

@keifermay3913 2 года назад

@@tihomirrasperic agreed on this! Once my Chromebook was end of life (no more software updates) I deleted Chrome and installed Gallium OS as my daily driver on that machine. It works great and it's something like a decade old machine now. I write C programs, Python scripts, run a BurpSuite proxy, and do relatively straightforward hacking CTFs and war games on it. You're not gonna be brute forcing stuff with huge wordlists on the ancient CPU with like no ram, but it works for my use cases. Can stream video and do whatever word processing, programming, and compiling that I need.

@thatnbaguy6473 11 месяцев назад

I was once helping my son with his homework on his Chromebook, the screens can only be looked at from directly the front or you just see pitch black lol

@scrappycoco4265 Год назад

I bought a Chromebook for 90$ and it had 1080p screen (although tn), a Celeron processer, 64gb of emmc, 4gb of ram, decent keyboard and its 15.6". It does get slow when u run over 10 tabs, but it's enough for me, it can stream video at 1080p 60fps, has access to play store and can run Linux apps. Although not all Linux apps run well on it bc of the low end CPU or just because it's a limited version of debian running. But overall, for 90$, I like it and I enjoy having a laptop that lasts kinda long to take to college for occasional programming and generic school work while I have my beefy desktop at home for more demanding tasks. It's super light which was the big thing for me. Saves a lot of weight in my bag.

@IanTheCat 2 года назад

It's not the low-end hardware that kills it for me, but the locked-down BIOS requiring enabling developer mode and other hackery things. Installing literally ANY other OS becomes a hassle such that using it for anything other than ChromeOS after it's support has ended is a BAD experience

@tanmaypanadi1414 2 года назад

they are definitely being subsidies by Google so it's in their best interest that it's harder to run anything else. All in hopes of the future work force stick to their browsers or android ecosystems.

@Masterrunescapeer 2 года назад

@@tanmaypanadi1414no they are not subsidized by Google, Chrome OS is free, Windows costs money. They could be subsidized for some students though, schools/municipalities often give subsidies for them, but the ones from best buy and stuff aren't.

@turun_ambartanen 2 года назад

@@Masterrunescapeer You do realize "Chrome OS is free, Windows costs money." is basically the definition of subsidized by Google? They don't create an OS for fun. They have a clear business case for it and that involves branding and lots and lots of data extraction. Yes, even from kids laptops.

@Jesus-nc1jv 2 года назад

@@turun_ambartanen free for now

@FM4AMGV 2 года назад

@@turun_ambartanen they really didn't create Android or Chrome OS, it's just a fork of Linux.

@dang6102 2 года назад

A repairable Framework laptop for schools might be interesting. They’re bound to break at some point and if schools can easily repair things like the screen or laptop casing, then it would likely reduce some waste.

@johntrevy1 2 года назад

And work that into teaching a usable skill.

@isaackvasager9957 2 года назад

Schools can't spend $1K per laptop. The entire reason chromebooks took off is because schools can get them for less than $200 per machine.

@NigelMelanisticSmith 2 года назад

Most enterprise Chromebooks have the Display assembly and keyboard as easy to replace, which are the two things kids break most. I've repaired Lenovo, HP, and Dell Chromebooks, and for School SKUs, they aren't hard to fix at all.

@jabezhane 2 года назад

@@isaackvasager9957 Exactly, I ordered a Framework but for schools you can get 5 Chromebooks for the cost of one Framework.

@isaackvasager9957 2 года назад

Chromebooks are very easy to repair. Easier than virtually any other device. I repair them all the time. In fact, almost all brands and models use the same 11.6" lcd panel...so one panel in stock works for the many different brands we have to fix.

@BLASTIC0 Год назад

Dude, the Asus C434T… I picked up a few for like $75.. yea, they are from 2019, but they are NIIICE.. all metal, thin, 2 usb c, 1 usb A, audio jack, micro sd. Do they have a newer version of this thing?!?