Looking for chromebox suggestions to create a dual monitor (Dell UltraSharp U2723QE 27") for mostly use in streaming multiple auctions with live audio and video at once. I’m not concerned with spending a little extra for future proofing. Thanks!

Topic. I use my personal CB for jumping on calls or answering for my team in my IT job (it is quite frankly faster than trying to fire up my windows work laptop). Outside of that I am often doing our grocery shopping, budget, reading gaming news, and sometimes attempting to run games (less and less now).

I like to yoga it into the A frame tablet mode at times so 2 in 1 is definitely of value.

I want it snappy, and I think 16x9 is probably better for me given my split screen use case.

I just had the Spin 714 for a week and had to return it because of the restart bug plaguing many of them and it has me sheepish to acers (my old 713 lost two mobos...first was warranty covered, second happened a week after warranty expired).

I'm on a Asus 433TA right now...cracked screen so i enabled the ability to shut off touch screen and it functions fine but this one i scored for 180 a few years ago. Not bad for 8gb, good battery and an m3 8th gen.

The 714 snappiness is absolutely what i want, along with UPWARD FIRING SPEAKERS!!! so don't want a step backwards from that. It was ultra 5 and 8 gb ram. What do you guys have in terms of recs?

My HP chromebook's screen will not turn on and stays black. It's charged and the light on the side works. I tested to see if the thing was working by connecting it to a monitor and it connected just fine. Also, when it isn't connected, Chromevox still works (I tested it by clicking the keyboard shortcut and the voice played through the speaker, so I know the device is on). It seems to just be the screen that isn't working. When I open it, the screen changes through three shades of black (screen off, screen on but black, and the second one but dimmer) and stays on the third one. I've checked the brightness. I already powerwashed it and went into recovery mode, but nothing seems to work. I can't go to get it fixed anywhere as of now. Can anyone help?

I have Musescore on my chromebook through the built in Linux environment and I tried to connect my midi keyboard to my chromebook but the system is not detecting the midi keyboard. The keyboard doesn't show up on the screen to manage USB devices.

When I tried the keyboard on a browser page it worked so I don't know what to do.

Keyboard : CTK-2000

Does anyone know what could be causing this, I own two Chromebooks and this problem exists on both of them.

Does anyone know what could be causing this, I own two Chromebooks and this problem exists on both of them.

Hey folks, I'm definitely not a tech fella but here goes. I had an Acer Chromebook 514 with 8GB RAM and a Intel i5 processor. Boy it rocked. Beat that pants off my wife's couple year old HP running windows (no surprise).

I was running GIMP using the Linux terminal and it worked seemlessly. Alas, I fried the whole device with a cup of coffee... No insurance either as deductible is the same as the value of the comp.

Now I'm looking for a used Chromebook that I can run GIMP on that will be comparable but not break the bank as I can't afford to just buy a new one all over again. Other than GIMP I basically just run my browser and do word processing.

Questions:

• Is 4gb ram enough to run GIMP?
• is 8gb ram with a mediatek processor better or worse than 4gb ram with an intel i5?
• same question as above but celeron n4500 vs i5?
• is a 64bit system I found on marketplace likely to be running with 8gb of ram? Is that a safe assumption?

Thanks folks

I have a chrome extension where when you click on the icon in the extensions menu, it opens a menu in a separate window. Is it possible to add the chrome extensions button to the launcher and if so how?

I just got the Ideapad Duet 5 Chromebook 2-in-1. I was unable to adjust screen brightness, initially on version 131, and then on 132 beta, which I hoped would fix the issue. Anyone else having this problem?

When my Chromebook updated, I noticed it removed the option to uninstall NON-ESSENTIAL apps such as games, YouTube music, Streaming Services, photo editing apps, etc. from my Chromebook. I understand that Chromebook is getting rid of its capability with the Google Play Store, which sucks balls, however, I am trying to clear out my unused apps so that I can get more space on my Chromebook.

You would think that Chromebook would delete the apps it's no longer compatible with as it updated but no, it just decided to remove the option to get rid of the apps and now I am stuck with critically low disc space and game apps and general non-essential apps I can't uninstall.

How am I supposed to clear out my disc space if I can't uninstall apps that are not essential to my Chromebook? Why can't Chromebook just get rid of the apps it no longer supports during the updating process? Why make it where I am stuck with critically low disc space due to not being able to delete the fucking apps that it no longer supports and are unimportant to its basic processing and functioning?

Why is Chromebook so annoying? At this point, I'm about ready to go back to Windows because Chromebook is so frustrating. I also don't understand why Chromebook is no longer able to be compatible with Google PlayStore Apps because Chromebook runs ChromeOS which allows for a modified version of Andriod apps. Chromebooks are getting worse because Google keeps restricting its ChromeOS code instead of finding a way to create a processing chip that can hold more data and have the ability to be compatible to perform more complex processes by implementing more complex algorithms. Google needs to EXPAND the capabilities not shrink them.

First time dealing with ChromeOS, this handmedown NUC is locked and only has 2gb of ram so looking into switching it to ChromeOS instead of figuring out how to fit in windows. Chrome says the intel NUC5PGYH is supported till 2027 on its website but Intel doesnt show up anywhere on the Chromebook Recovery Utility thing. Trying to download the OS onto my flash drive to plug into the NUC and am a bit stumped on this. Any ideas or help?

Hi! I am using the ChromeOS version of Linux and apt is not working for me. When I try to install a package I get this:

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

Package (package name) is not available, but is referred to by another package.

This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or

is only available from another source

E: Package '(package name)' has no installation candidate

However, when I use sudo apt update it gives me:

W: Failed to fetch https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm/InRelease Temporary failure resolving 'deb.debian.org'

W: Failed to fetch https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm-updates/InRelease Temporary failure resolving 'deb.debian.org'

W: Failed to fetch https://deb.debian.org/debian-security/dists/bookworm-security/InRelease Temporary failure resolving 'deb.debian.org'

W: Failed to fetch https://storage.googleapis.com/cros-packages/132/dists/bookworm/InRelease Temporary failure resolving 'storage.googleapis.com'

W: Failed to fetch https://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/InRelease Temporary failure resolving 'dl.google.com'

W: Failed to fetch https://packages.mozilla.org/apt/dists/mozilla/InRelease Temporary failure resolving 'packages.mozilla.org'

W: Failed to fetch http://repository.spotify.com/dists/stable/InRelease Temporary failure resolving 'repository.spotify.com'

W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Can someone help me, please?

Can you share your user experience and whether the lack of the dedicated utility in ChromeOS is important?

Thanks,

I find the three-finger tap so difficult in the browser. Half the time it ends up being a two and a half finger tap.

So in order to open a link in a new tab I end up using two fingers and picking the first menu item, "open link in new tab".

Well at least there aren't any four-finger commands.

No I don't want to buy a mouse.

Hi folks,

I saw a similar post about HP Laserjet printer compatibility, so I thought I would check here. If there’s a more appropriate subreddit I should go to, please kindly direct me there!

I am having trouble setting up my old but perfectly functional P1005 with my new Chromebook. When I plug in the USB, there is a pop-up indicating the device “could not be configured automatically.” I am prompted for the model number (P1005 js clearly too old to show up). “Alternatively, select printer PDD.”

Is there any way around this? I know I could be searching for hours without getting answers, so I appreciate any assistance.

This is my first chromebook so idk if i did something wrong or its just the os i have tried to recover using internet connection (after escape + refresh+power button) and that doesn't work i have also tried putting it into developer mode then putting it back to secure mode to see if it erases the problem if its a software issue idh any other computer to make a recovery drive so idk of that works(not sure if this is important but i spilled some juice on it a few months ago but it ran fine for like 2 months before this happened so not sure if its related but added it just to be sure ) shpuld i go to a repair shop to get it fixed or is there something i can do from home (preferrably cheap)

hello group i am just wondering i have a windows laptop and thought on buy a chromebook too but i though that Chromebooks i could install android apps like i do in mi phone and tablet, but i searched in google and read that chromebook don't come with android but with chrome os i am just wondering if i can install android apps in a chromebook, if it comes with the play store and also why did google didn't launch chromebooks with androind instead of chrome os?

Almost pulled the trigger on a galaxy chromebook plus - but heard bad things about the flickering display. I'm currently running two businesses off my Acer Spin 311. It was dirt cheap but does the job. Now I'm happy with Chrome OS, I would like a system with an awesome screen, and fast performance. The Acer spin 311 gets the job done, but it's laggy. Any help appreciated.

I have an Acer 713 with 16 GB of ram and my diagnostic screen shows 8 GB is used by the OS. How can that be when I also have an older CB with only 4GB of ram and it runs fine? Are there tools to show how the memory is allocated or should I just move along? I'm not running Linux, and love my 713.TIA.

My chromebook has started acting odd and any support would be appreciated.

Symptoms: Top row of keyboard apart from refresh and power buttons do not work. Number keys type symbols Letters come out as capitals Cannot use touched to scroll Clicking on links now open new group as opposed to new tab

Swapped to guest account, and no issues there

What have I done: Restart Power off Powerwash Checked and turned off all extra extensions

My Acer chrome book has had this happen twice now. I only use the device to stream and for schoolwork.

How do I diagnose any issues and prevent this from happening?

I just restored it using a flash drive 2 weeks ago and it's bricked.

Hi. Look I'm trying to partition my micro SD from gpt to mbr softmod my Wii. I only have access to a Chromebook with penguin Linux on it. It's very old and doesn't have a lot of space to download new things. My micro SD isn't showing in lsblk it's brand new and I've tried 4 others and none show. Can someone please help I'm fairly new to all this and I'm getting super agitated. I already waited for weeks for this card to come in because I needed a specific size that none of my local stores had plus it was delayed due to snowy weather which we don't usually get in the south here. I feel like I'm honestly wasting my time. I just really wanted to get this project up and running.

Good day all,

I was wondering, is there any way that one can determine when a Google account was added to Google chrome as a profile? Perhaps a log of some sorts with a date and time?

From my understanding almost all chromebooks have the ram soldered to the motherboard. Is there a short list of models that are known to have been built for upgrading ram? I'm ideally looking for a used 4gb that I can upgrade to 16gm. Using linux based apps is killing my 8gh hp and I can't afford a 16gb online. Any help is appreciated.

Anyone had luck with limiting charge? This is a dedicated media server with docker containers and I just leave it plugged in and automated and I have a concern with keeping it plugged in forever at 100% and getting a spicy pillow. I tried TLP and Upower. Neither worked.

Anyone had luck with this?

At work we are looking at getting some chromebooks to put at production stations for employees to log data in excel files due to how cheap many chromebook models are. I realize the default "sheets" app is a cloud based one from google and these laptops are really cloud focused designs, but we are looking at them for LAN usage only. I tried searching around but googling things like "using chromebooks with blocked internet", etc mostly pull up help articles for how to troubleshoot no internet connection. lol. We will be using a 3rd party spreadsheet app, possibly just Microsoft Excel possibly something else, that is better suited to LAN files only. But my main question is related to the chromebook itself:

Will a chromebook function perfectly fine long term with a completely blocked internet connection once it is initially set up and signed in to the gmail account? We don't want our logging laptops to have any access to the internet or network except to the specific folder the log files are stored in on LAN, and we don't want to have something come up saying "we need to be reauthenticated" or whatever after a month or something of being "offline".

Edit: Thanks for the advice everyone. Looks like we wont be going with chromebooks for this.

Hello! I’ve just bought a second hand dell Chromebook for a cheap price. I wanted to download a third party app to it but says I have to turn developer mode to do it. I tried booting into developer mode few times. Everytime I go to recovery page, says the device couldn’t find chrome OS. And to do it, I have to insert SD card or USB forge to install chrome OS. Can anyone help me asap?