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Originally Posted by JSWolf
How much RAM does the Chromebook have? That 512GB is storage.
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It's a Dell Latitude e5300 2-in-1 Chromebook. So it's a relatively modern, full fledged, laptop with Chrome OS installed and a touch screen. Mine has 16 GBs of RAM and a 512 GB SSD installed. The maximum memory is 32 GBs and it uses M.2 2280 storage (at the time this originally came out, I think the maximum was 1 TB, but I'm guessing that's gone up since then). Mine has an i5-8365U CPU, but these also were available with Celeron, i3 and i7 CPUs. (You can buy the same model with Windows 10 Pro preinstalled, refurbished, for about $300 -- which would make a great Linux machine.)
I bought the e5300 in used, "unknown" condition (which usually means it won't boot) from Shop Goodwill and it took a while for me to get it to boot and work right (no parts, just patience), but ones like mine originally sold for about $1,600 (I paid about $90). The main reason I wanted it was for the 8-10 hour battery life -- even though I almost exclusively use it for Linux. This computer will run Windows in Parallels, as it's officially supported.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
From what I've read, most Chromebooks only have 64GB storage.
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32 GBs or 64 GBs are the most common configurations in the cheap Chromebooks -- but you can do quite a bit with either of these. The older ones were 8 GBs and 16 GBs storage (I think even down to 2 GB and 4 GB). But now, you can find quite a few models at 8 GB RAM and 256 GB storage and higher. You also have to understand that 8 GBs on a Chromebook (much lighter OS and less hardware intensive than Windows) is much faster than Windows would be with 8 GBs.
I wanted to test Linux on Chromebooks. I like the e5300, but I would just as soon have the non-Chromebook model and just run Linux on it.
I don't know if I'll keep any of the Chromebooks I've collected, but I've had fun experimenting with them.