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Originally Posted by ApK
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Any way, those would be used, with no warranty or support, with hopefully all the 5-year-old hardware in good condition, right?
Might indeed be good for my dev needs, and I'm going to look closer at them, but that's not what we got the Chromebook for.
You wanted a 5-year-old 15" laptop. Great, that's what you should get.
We wanted a current, light, small device for mainly web browsing, email and video, and an easy convenient exchange if we didn't like it. We got a new Chromebook for $199. We could have gotten a similar windows Machine for about $100 more, or maybe a refurbished Macbook Air for $850, but why, exactly, would we have wanted to do that?
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Well and there is the processing speed issue things have changed significantly in 5 years.
If all you need it to get on line, do email, maybe a few docs using the google applications that's exactly what a chromebook is for and that's what he's not getting. It all depends on what your needs are, how simple you want to make your life, etc.