(Australian Based)

Hello,

I posted a while ago that a Lenovo sales rep let me know they would discontinue Chromebooks in the future…I get the vibe they were indeed but were also switching to the new GoogleBooks.

Our standard issue laptop at our company is the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 but going off that information and after talking to a retails sales rep who let me know its highly likely they will no longer have this model stocked again, Im a little unsure whats the next best thing to start getting for our staff.

This laptop is great but moving onto the new GoogleBook doesn’t make sense with the price jump being a few hundred dollars and going above $2,000 especially since during the year these regularly dropped to around $700-800.

So yeah, would anyone have any ideas of a ChromeOS laptop on par with this?

things have gotten insanely expensive out there. cant believe how much ram/ssd are. looking for a good deal. good sound, great screen, great battery life, used for YouTube/web all day.

I work for an afterschool program and our chromebooks are passed around each day between different classes. I want to start a digital arts program but I need a way to be able to download the software and have it be accessible in the Guest Mode. I like that the memory is wiped after each session so students can use their USB’s for saved data. Is this possible?

I tried making a generic Lab account but one of the classes that uses the Chromebook has young kids, who clicked and signed up for every ad/email pop up on sight and created accounts in god knows where.

So as specified by the title, my Chrome Os in the chrome book is clearly old being Version 77.0.3865.120 (Official Build) (32-bit) and I want two things, to somehow update it and somehow get Google play store on it, because for some reason this laptop doesn't have google play store installed. I go to update it, it says "you have a metered wifi, update manually" I click on "check for updates" it says "your Chromebook is up to date" but it clearly isn't, can't download extensions, apps. Nothing except images and pdf files. I hope someone knows how to deal with such an odd and insanely specific situation, also thanks to anyone who's going to potentially respond or attempt to help me.

I have a i5 Pixelbook Go, and since ChromeOS updates end in June 2029, I'm thinking of using the Linux version of Chrome through Crostini to keep the laptops up to date with modern chrome. Has anyone tried this?

How does it compare to regular Chrome in terms of speed, RAM usage, battery life, and video playback?

Are there any issues with using it as your main browser? Would i be better off using Linux Firefox instead?

This is my first time to try a Google ecosystem device. I am actually impressed with it. Because if you just spend around 41 dollars, you can get better performance than a Windows laptop, especially for handling multiple pages. Another thing that made me impressed was that the battery life is over 6 hours, although the battery health is at 86 percent. That is kind of crazy for me, when I try to compare it with a Windows laptop in the same price range, the battery life was so poor and usually I found some laptops can only be operated when plugged into a charger. So if you have a limited budget, I think a Chromebook is the best choice.

Oh, I forgot to inform the specifications of this device.

This device runs on 4GB RAM and 32GB eMMC storage. The screen is 1303 x 720 and supports 5 multi-touch.

There are two USB-C ports and two USB-B ports.

Asus Flip CX5. Recently developed an issue where after a period of use, this bar of flickering lines appears. It will gradually get worse, the cursor becomes harder to operate, and shortly thereafter it's completely inoperable.

I attempted a power wash but then it wouldn't reboot. I ended up having to recover from a USB. It is now usable, but still very problematic.

-The issue begins after a period of continuous use, could be from a few minutes to an hour. As before recovery, it gradually gets worse and harder to use before becoming entirely useless.

-Unlike before, rebooting or letting the computer sleep for a while will stop it (until it starts again)

-Weirdly, when the problem first starts I can make it go away by opening Gmail or settings full screen. Eventually this doesn't work either though.

I'm guessing this is an expensive problem rather than just a display connection or something.. so I'm trying to do the math on a very plasticky device with only a couple years of updates left. Has anyone else experienced something like this?

It didn’t do this before, it used to only ask for my local password, but recently its asking for my google password and also local password, any way to avoid this?

I have recently been getting into playing Android ported games on an ARM Chromebook (Snapdragon 7c Gen 2).

I am using a Gamesir Cyclone 2 gamepad Xinput mode connected with the USB dongle.

In some games it works perfectly. In others there is a consistent issue where the right-stick doesn't map correctly and the trigger inputs are seen as right stick input.

To illustrate, it defaults to the camera looking up and left and pressing the left trigger looks down for example. The right stick is not seen as an input so I cannot remap it when there is an option to do so.

As above, other games work perfectly. My concern is it may be to do with the way controller compatibility is coded in the app itself so I am stuck with this quirk and some games are simply unplayable.

If I change to Bluetooth Android/HID mode it works properly but the input latency is very high.

Has anyone encountered this and does anyone have and suggestions or solutions?

(Summary at the bottom)

Hello, I'm having problems with my Chromebook's storage. Last week I was trying to download some larger videos, so I deleted some old stuff off of it to make space for the videos. I deleted them completely from my Chromebook and even deleted them from the trash too. I went to check my storage to make sure they were deleted, and it said the 9 GB of storage that was taken up by the videos had been removed from my files, but for some reason my system took up the 9GB that I had cleared. It was as if I never cleared the space. So I thought, "Alright, I just did an update; maybe I just need to go clear out my inbox spam. I've been needing to do it for a while." So I went and cleared my inbox, got rid of 8,000 spam emails- a couple GBs worth of storage cleared. The system's storage immediately took that space that I had cleared up as well. I got frustrated and deleted some old files from my Google Drive that were no longer needed as well. The system storage took that too. It's been a week, and it has only taken up more space, and I have no room for anything. How do I clear up system space because Google is only telling me to delete my browser cache, which I have already done.

Was running low on storage, deleted a bunch of old files, emails, browser cache, and other larger documents on my Chromebook. The system's storage immediately swallowed all of it. How do I delete some of the system storage?

I haven't even had this Chromebook for a year.

My first chromebook was an Asus C302C and it was great in its day. I haven't used or charged it since 2023 but pulled it out to play with it and of course the battery is shot. I love the form factor so it might be a good travel laptop with a new battery and new OS - or is it too underpowered for the day? Anyone still using one of these (I know it's out of chromeos support)? When I booted it up with the battery disconnected it was really, really painfully slow.

I've always wanted to play around with a Chromebook, but never got around to it. They have always been a bit too costly for my taste, even the entry-level ones. We don't get the wonderful bargains here that some people report online.

Now I could get a fairly cheap Lenovo Chromebook M 14 locally with 4 GB RAM and Kompanio 540 (not sure about the exact model no. of this thing, but the specs are 100% certain). Being a current model, it should get updates for a long time, which is a plus.

(Edit: Please note that I am not talking about the Lenovo Chromebook Plus, which is a completely differnent animal.)

I've seen lots of warnings agains 4 GB 'books online and a recurring recommendation that you should absolutely disable the Android subsystem. Which would defeat a lot of the usability of the machine.

This puzzles me a bit, as 4 GB Chromebooks were quite common until recently. I understand that Google changed the Android and/or Linux subsystem and made it heavier, which could cause problems.

But is it really that bad? I don't really need that laptop and would use it mainly to dabble with ChromeOS, but I might also want to take it with me as a cheap no-frills laptop for light browsing and video watching and using a few Android apps (if possible), with little financial risk in case of damage or theft.

(BTW: I know that Googlebooks are out now, and ChromeOS may not have much of a future left. Not an issue in this case.)

Hi,

I am not sure when it happens but all my 3 chromebooks do not go to sleep after a certain time. I remember that I could setup this time and entered 2 minutes. After no action for the time in setup the display automatically went to black. This setup entry can't be found anymore.

Do you have similar observing?

currently just have the VLC but seeking a nicer player that is more user friendly and easy to make and play thru playlists and such??

I really dont know the computer lingo and like really barely anything that makes this world go round so if this is just too basic and annoying on here lmk and ill take this post down.

but so yea, I do have spotify downloaded and youtube etcetc but I dont want to be listening to mine and my friends recordings thru those apps , know what i mean?

I should have done more research on computers and such so i could get more of what i wanted but this does the job for now, any advice is very much so accepted and appreciated hahah. thanks yall <3

{currently just skimmed over some stuff about players called clementine and cantat or what not??}

also any help with security feature stuff or , safe incog browsing or whatever the heck also muchly appreciated!

I just got a Brio 300 webcam and am trying to get it to work with my chromebook. It will open in Zoom, but that's the only way I can access it. I saw advice here to use either the LogiG and/or LogiTune apps but neither can locate the camera. The camera is directly plugged into the chromebook. I have restarted and installed/uninstalled the apps several times. Is this just as good as it gets? I can't adust anything with the camera?

I recently got an Acer Chromebook plus spin 514 as a gift and im not very good with tech. I tried to download steam and it would not work so i went to the official Chromebook help thing and i saw that i met all the requirements i cant figure this out help me please.

(also is this the wrong flair? sorry)

Googlebook OS (mica/XPS13) running bare-metal off USB on a trogdor Chromebook — buggy as expected, converter script here if anyone wants to try it: 

https://github.com/YAJATapps/googlebook-trogdor

Base trogdor image: https://blogs.yajatkumar.com/2026/10/android-17-for-google-trogdor_0202249688.html

Model: Lenovo N23 Yoga

OS version: ChromeOS Dev 158

My Chromebook has been acting like this since last night, guys—take a look at the video to see what’s going on and what the potential solutions might be. Need your help!

I guess I'm not the only one

PQ O CROMEOS NÃO TEM NO TECLADO O UP E O DOWN QUE TEM EM TODOS OS TECLADOS? ta querendo ACABAR com a HISTORIA DA TECNOLOGIA? eu sei que não serve para nada mas eles tem 3 DECADAS DE HISTORIA E FORAM OS UNICOS VIVOS HOJE EM DIA QUE SOBREVIVEU A PRE-HISTORIA DOS CONPUTADORES,e tbm, pq o cromeOS NÃO PERMITE ARQUIVOS exe? eu sei que ele roda em lunix e da para rodar, mas não faz sentido, PQ EU TENHO QUE FICAR PROGAMANDO POR 2 HORAS E O SICRIPT DA ERRADO EM TODAS? é uma merda isso, e ate o lunix roda arquivos .exe, e eu tenho certesa que algem vai falar que o cromeOS é farco SENDO QUE NÃO, eu tenho ele des de 2024 e nunca deu problema, a unica vez que eu desentalei alguma coisa, foi quando eu tava tentando baixar um arquivo .exe e tive que baixar o lunix E ADIVINHA? NÃO DEU CERTO, então eu so queria disabafar mesmo, fiquem com isso ai, que deus abensoe vcs ♥

Can anyone recommend a program for audio editing? Something simple and easy to get the hang of? It's just for basic podcast editing.

I've searched on here and I understand you can install Audacity on Chromebooks with Linux, but to be honest that's beyond my ability. I just want a simple alternative I can use without messing about with the OS. Thanks.

There are a couple of video editors in the perks. Any advice?

Ich suche ein Chromebook mit Tablet Modus.

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Danke