Using An Old Chromebook in 2021? 

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"Vintage" and "Chromebook" aren't words i expected to hear in the same sentence.

Every laptop that comes in nathan’s house never wants to leave

The C710 is actually one of the most compatible Chromebooks when it comes to running Windows. So if you want Windows 10 (preferably ReviOS) then you can run it. On a Chromebook.

This guy looks like a protagonist from a Resident Evil game, but, when he "smirks", he looks like a Far Cry villain.

These vids are so ENTERTAINING!!!!

I really wonder where Chromebooks are going with how well they are selling these days. I don't own one right now but I always have a soft spot for them, they make so much sense for so many people.

I didn’t think I’d hear the phrase “vintage Chromebook”

Thank you for showing that a old device can but still useful, I think that we must go back to having devices that can be updated , it is good for the environment

Watching you do some repairs to these old machines is soothing and giving me something to learn. Keep up the awesome work.

Dude, my little sister had that back in 2012. I vividly remember going to get it for her at Best Buy. Crazy to imagine that's been 9 years.

From watching this, it reminds me on how even old laptops can still do well with an SSD. I still have my old 2013 Thinkpad Edge with its I3-3110M and 4GB RAM and replacing the HDD, it actually does well. It obviously cant game, but for what I use it for, it does alright.

I owned the Acer C720 and used that for about 4-5 years. Absolutely loved that little machine.

I've never seen an upgradable Chromebook before, Nice Video (:

Chromebooks are like Netbooks with a new OS

acer's a good brand, everyone in my family who's had one has had one has had a good experience with it, even my grandpa's and its from 2013 and still works fine.

“Vintage Chromebook” Jeez I feel old now

I actually used that one, you need to be careful because the hinge is extremely bad. I've "repaired" the hinge with a binder clip.

I have a Dell Latitude E6510 that I’d love to send to you! It’s in excellent condition but some of the keys on the keyboard don’t work anymore.

It’s about time the channel should be called ‘’EucalyptusOil4You’’ LOL

I bought one of these recently and installed 8GB of ram as well as a 120GB ssd and windows 10. It makes it a nice portable windows device with good battery life.

Acer chromebooks give me nostalgia because I used one in 2014

I'm watching this on an Acer C720 with upgraded SSD and Windows 10. Google stopped supporting it many years ago, but with Win10 it's still a decent netbook in 2021.

I dont know why but your videos are so relaxing and interesting at the same time. Usually i dont watch tech videos till the very end, except ur vids! Thanks for entertaining me :D

I got literally this exact same model a few weeks ago, and it runs Ubuntu 16.04 and Minecraft 1.8 half decently with 4gb ram

I own two of these C710's. I bought the first one in 2014, and upgraded it to 4GB. I never had a need to upgrade the drive since at that time I was dedicatedly using Google's online services. I used it until 2017 when I bought a CTL J5(?) which had a touchscreen. The C710 cost $199 at Walmart at that time. A couple years ago I dusted it off and gifted it to my dad who does only very simple online things with laptops. He liked it enough that about a year later he bought a new Chromebook of his own, so he returned the C710 to me. The second unit I bought for my wife as a birthday gift around 2016. She at first had no idea why I'd give her one...she didn't care at all about using laptops. But she's still using it today, unashamedly loves it, and it still performs just as quickly as it did when new. But the OS of course stopped updating in 2019 I believe. I never upgraded hers, so it has the original 2GB RAM. I bought hers refurbed from the Acer store for $99. A while back she somehow cracked her charger, so I gave her the one out of mine. The chargers are impossible to find now, but Acer fortunately used the same socket connection on many other laptop models so other different styles are compatible if I ever really need to get another charger. I too always really liked the upgradeability of these laptops. IIRC the next model after the C710, the C720, had soldered RAM and such, which was a bummer. One interesting thing about the Acer C710 is that the chassis was repurposed from one of Acer's mainstream Windows laptops, which is why we find so much upgradeability included. In reality it was a standard Windows machine converted to ChromeOS (I used to know which model). I didn't notice in the video, but my units have a DELETE button and a CAPS LOCK button...something regular Chromebooks never have...another holdover in a modified machine rushed to production. I've occasionally thought about converting my C710 to Linux, but since I have numerous other project laptops with better hardware (I'm typing this on a 2016 model Acer E11 that originally had Windows 7, was upgraded to Windows 10, and now has Linux Mint with the XFCE4 desktop), I just haven't seen the need. Besides, my wife may break hers and need a replacement. :D Great video that took me back a few years. Thank you!

your videos have very good production and are very entertaining. and i love it

Those case plastics gave me horrible flashbacks to my old Acer Aspire laptop which I think was around the same era. Brittle plastics and easily snapped parts were a plenty and I was so happy when I replaced it.

The first first laptop that i owned myself was a Chromebook, a thinkpad x131, that i eventually put linux on. It was about the same amount of upgradable. Anyway, great vid! :)

Dang! A chromebook with user upgradeable parts! Must be nice!!! I did the same “jailbreak” on my chromebooks and they both have soldiered RAM and EMMC memory…

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I vibe with this so hard. I used my hp atom netbook from about 2011 to the beginning of 2017. Could still get around 4 hours of battery by that time.

5:20 maybe using optifine or sodium, you can get more fps 😉

I have an Acer Aspire with AMD C-60 from 2011, similar specs but it can’t even play 720p RU-vid smoothly now :( it used to be able to play 1080p just fine when it was new.

Our high school gave us these. Mine broke at least twice every year. It became such a problem that the school switched chromebook models to thinkpads for the all the kids that came into the school following us. I don’t miss that thing.

0:20 I’m surprised a scary looking knife like that is still legal in Australia.

Just bought a c731 for 40 bucks on sale a couple days ago. You can't expand the ram or the HD, but after unlocking the device and updating the firmware I installed a lightweight Linux distro.

When you realize it’s basically just an aspire one lmao. Good video!

US laptop-"What's a eucalyptus and why does it give oil to me?"

This looks like the exact model my middle school had and 2013 sounds about right for when they got them. For context am graduating high school next year so this is a bit of a blast from the past and also yes the trackpad was that bad when new.

So, I had a similar situation with a Chromebook past the EOU date. It was in beautiful condition, but the original owner rightfully didn't want to use it without security updates. I put the new bios on, took off the security key and used Chrome Flex to renew it. It worked perfectly. I prefer to work with Linux, but this recycled Chromebook was to be given to a a computer novice with really just the need to do simple browsing and email.

This is the same model I used for years at school when chromebooks first came out. Ah, the memories I made on this machine.

Thanks man, I look forward to sending my Hp2000 serie. Love 💕 your vids

Ooh I had that exact same model of chromebook for a while until I got a used latitude e6420 in 2015. That thing has obviously aged a lot better than the chromebook for being about as old.

I have used a laptop like this for a year to 2 years with Windows 7 and it worked quite well!

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Cool video, great seeing some TLC for old hardware. Just a thought, superglueing the plastic back together ensures it's not coming apart again right? Have you tried blue tack or another non-permanent adhesive for missing clips like that?

The insides of this laptop look exactly the same as an old netbook I bought recently! I wonder if they reused the same hardware for chromebooks when netbooks stopped selling.

Why you didn't install a updated Chrome Os to see the performance of this machine

Oh I actually recently took an old C300 that I got years ago and installed Linux on it, pretty cool.

I still have my Acer C720 Chromebook that I bought factory refurbished for $129 in 2014. I swapped in a 64GB m.2 and it's dual booted with Ubuntu and ChromeOS and still is useable for light tasks. I get around 45-50 fps in Minecraft 1.15 and Terraria is also unplayable. I even ordered a C720 with an i3-4005U and 4GB (soldered) ddr3 from Australia to the USA, but it never arrived. :( I still love mine and use it in my workshop to this day.

We have carts on carts of these things at my school and they are running chrome OS and have 4gb of ram. The school says these are an ‘upgrade’ over the windows 7 think pads we had a couple years ago with 8gb of ram if I can remember correctly an i3 6300 cpu (which wasn’t very old at the time) Now they expect us to edit videos for school projects on chromebooks.

I'm still using that same chromebook, I did upgrade it to 4gb of ram for $7 off ebay last year

Is there a possibility of hardware or software CPU or GPU overclocking? Did you try emulation (or can you next time on Chromebooks/Netbooks)?

This reminds me of an Acer Chromebook that I used in elementary school. Looked basically like that one, but more Ultrabook like.

Thanks mate! I had one of these awful excuse for a laptop! Always positive vibes tho!

Ive actually just gotten myself one of these off of ebay for like $20 a month ago

What is your opinion of the Lenovo Thinkpad T530? I got mine from my computer guy for free. When I got it, it had a 320 GB 5400 RPM HDD, 2 GB RAM, Intel HD 4000 GPU. I managed to upgrade to a 1 TB storage HDD storage drive, a 128 GB SSD boot drive and 16 GB RAM in addition to a 16 GB Dogfish SSD which I use for a few movies. Before I did the upgrades the system would barely run GTA 5 at less than 10 FPS. Now I get 25-35 FPS. By the way love your videos.

Can you please get your hands on an entirely whole green laptop.

I laugh that this 2013 laptop is "vintage" and called old. My daily driver is a 2010 MacBook Pro. I'm using an antique/relic it would seem LOL

“A bit of TLC” Me a BFDI fan: a bit of…tiny loser chamber….?

Yeah, it's pretty crap how Google build in a 3 or 4 year redundancy into Chromebooks, they can clearly last much longer than that. Gotta make those $$$ I guess.

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This Chromebook kinda has the looks of the Acer Aspire One 756 I used to own. Pretty much great for productivity stuff and old games.

Eyy I had the Acer C-720p which was a touchscreen from 2013. It was running a dual boot of Gallium OS and Chrome OS. Used that throughout Grade 6-7 before it slowed to the point that it took 3 hours to boot into Chromium.

Hey dude, nice video, I was wondering about the oil spray you used to clean the laptop, and I kinda wanna get my hands on one, I'm not quite sure what to look up and if you've got more tips about dealing with second-hand laptops that would be great! Keep it up!

Your content is well explained man. I sub!

I’m still using an Acer c720 but instead with windows. I’m quite surprised how well windows 10 runs with just 2GB ram and a cheap celeron 2955u

4:57 nice pattern on the Rubiks' men

That chromebook is probably better than the one I have to use provided by my school. My school chromebook takes about 3 mins to get to the login screen.

I have an old Lenovo Thinkpad t61 laptop that I found next to a dumpster in the rain, I don't have the correct charger and it didn't come with a battery. So I don't know if it works or not. Would you want to possibly make a video about it next week?

Why not installing the original os and try that?

I know this is a weird question, but how do you get over plugging in the all electronics because whenever I do that I feel like like it’s going to blow up in my face

Interesting I replaced Mac OS on my MacBook Air with Neverware CloudReady OS. Maybe you could swap out the drive and test that laptop with that OS? Home version is free.

I saw the keyboard on the chromebook in the video had the search button where the windows key usually is and actually had a caps lock key. Why aren't chromebooks designed like this today?

Really not that bad for a relatively compact Chromebook! I definitely prefer laptops that are upgradeable: soldered on RAM and storage are a big no-no. Also, I'd have probably gone for 2x 4GB RAM sticks, since 10GB is quite an odd amount, and a bit overkill for a Chromebook which will be more limited by the CPU than anything else. Also good to know that there are lightweight Linux distros about. What are the best ones you would say for low end hardware? I wouldn't mind trying a few of these out on lower end systems. :)

How did you get the old shot of JB? Wayback machine? Guy who sent it in had saved it for prosperity? :P

this chromebook model was my first laptop actually. did me good for years until i got my first windows pc.

I have an HP Chromebook 11 G1 that I am restoring to its younger glory. How can I use it? It has no compatibility with Android apps and no upgradability. It also has an ARM processor from the time, from 2013. It's also 32-bit. Typing this made me realize again that my Chromebook will die in 2038.

That chromebook has a windows model called Aspire One 756, I use it with linux and it's ok + very portable

I have this old Chromebook that I would like to give to a friend as it still works well. It won't allow me into my accounts anymore, it says my password cannot be "verified." I can get on as a guest but I can't add another user for some reason. Would resetting it to the factory settings allow me to enter everything again, or would it kill it? IF it's possible, how can I do it with this old machine? I can't find the right set of buttons.

I actually found a newer style chromebook that’s like that that has a replaceable ssd, and it was laggy but I lost it before I could even instal Linux

WOAH! SOOO awesome and informative!

I think ChromeOS is a little bit underrated. And I think it was an extremly great decision from Google to release ChromeOS Flex. I have it running on my 2010 iMac(the 3.2 i3 version and not the basemodel) and it runs so well even from an extrenal USB 2.0 HDD. I quiet enjoy ot and it's much faster than High SIerra

0:20 its called a karambut but still technically a knife

The store cashier quakes with fear as Nathan approaches the register with yet another bottle of eucalyptus oil.

i have the acer aspire ao756 : same hardware but runs windows, even internals are identical

So, 2013 laptop is 'vintage' now?

I legit want him to fix my old laptop, it has screen flickering issues and only disappears at a certain angle of the screen.

the laptop is very similar to the acer aspire one 756 that i have except the keyboard, the other part just the same, even the processor is celeron 847 too.

This seems less annoyingly built than my 2011 and 2012 Acer netbooks, since those needed the keyboard pulled out to access any of the internals, which is a great way to scratch up the keyboard's backplate.

I'm watching on an HP Chromebook 11 G5 EE that I wiped completely and put Manjaro Plasma on

@Psivewri 's in australia so why are none of his vids upside down?

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Despite Chromebook pedigree, C710 have two SODIMM RAM slot and using SATA connector for SSD - just like typical windows netbook (unlike typical chromebook which is utilising eMMC + soldered RAM), so yeah, that's something different (and that ram slot, something that ThinkPad T440s until T480s only have one ram slot + soldered RAM)

You should try to update the OS to ChromeOS Flex, now that is more stable and for general use on old Netbooks and AUE Chromebooks

What are your views on using an android os such as prime os on this device instead of a linux os?

Where do you get your eucalyptus oil from? I can't find anything that looks like it

it seem like oridanary netbook (aspire one) from my view. it got normal aspire keyboard with chromeOS symbol print on it. unlike for example dell chromebook 3120 x86 version with celeron n2480 that come with big bold alt left key. and everything sordered to the board.

thanks great well explained video