Chromebook Build Quality

>>58569806
Cause most chromebooks are marketed at k-12 schools for student use and most students, especially americans, treat everything like shit.

>>58569806
Google does a lot of work bringing up the platform. If you notice, a lot of Chromebooks run on similar configurations (CPU, ports, etc). That probably helps bring down initial development costs a bit so the company can just focus on production.

>>58569806
Got a cheap Acer one in 2012, and it's still my daily driver when I'm away from the desktop. Sure, it's all plastic and cheap-looking, but it's held up very nicely over the years next to some Latitudes. It's only taken very light abuse, but I can tell it's still built to take some punishment.

I just wish the newer ones were more like this, with a full-access panel on the bottom, a real storage drive bay, and a no-bullshit keyboard. Looking to upgrade to something that has or will have Android support, however. The C710 will never see that.

>>58570450
This.
My local elementary school got thinkpads for their students, they were destroyed within weeks. Now they let Google harvest all the data they want from the kids with chromebooks kek.

>>58571049
There are still some education-focused Chromebooks that have those features.

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>>58569806
How hard would it be to upgrade the SSD to something to that's like 200-300GB and then install Debian or Ubuntu GNU/Linux with GRUB?

>>58571110
right, because with thinkpads no one was harvesting their data :^)

>>58571174
very easy