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I posted about this in the laptop thread, but does anyone have a recommendation for a ≈$100 Chromebook with a touchscreen? I'm traveling this summer and I'd like something light for notes, including handwritten if possible, but also cheap enough that if it gets stolen/destroyed I won't be too upset. I've been seeing the c720p (4GB) at around that price on eBay. It seems like a good option, but I'd also be interested in something newer/better and not appreciably more expensive. edit: I found an R11 about an hour away from me for $100. That's a no-brainer, provided it's legit, right? fanny packrat fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Apr 27, 2018 |
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Atomizer posted:The Acer R11 is a solid recommendation. I forget all of the hardware variations, but as long as the one you're looking at has an N3150/3160 and 4 GB of RAM then that's a great price. The display is 11", WXGA, and is a decent-quality IPS (IIRC.) It has access to Android apps on the Play Store on the Stable channel, and it's a convertible so you could fold it all the way around and use it as a tablet. I've never used tried handwriting on a touchscreen CB but I'm sure it's doable. There are drawing Android apps that might also suffice. (Note that you'd have to use a generic capacitive stylus.) The keyboard is just fine. Great, thanks for the input! I've read a few accounts of people using them to take handwritten notes, and yeah, I'll definitely need a stylus because I have terminal sausagefingeritis. I'm still trying to pin down with the seller the exact model, but I'll probably end up taking it regardless. It seems like a good price for something that fits my use-case.
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I picked up my R11 on Friday and have been loving it so far. Being a hideous, gruesome ogre of a man I really enjoy flipping the screen around and using it as a huge tablet. The only issue I have right now is printing to a networked device, but I'm not too worried and I think I can probably get it sorted out. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good way to play music from Google Drive? I have about 90GB of music there, and I have found Google Play Music to be kind of a pain. In a perfect world I would figure out how to trick my computer into thinking that my Google Drive folder was a local resource, and then use Poweramp. I may end up getting a tiny 128GB usb drive and just downloading the whole shebang. The best tool I've found so far is Music Player for Google Drive (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/music-player-for-google-d/hnfeekfpnjbdmelcapngdgkjnhgijjkh/related?hl=en), but I'm not crazy about it.
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Thermopyle posted:It sounds like Drive is also a pain to use in a manner its not intended. Agreed on all fronts. I didn't think there would be any harm in asking if anyone had a suggestion. Atomizer posted:If you have a networked printer, and another PC on the network set up for it, you can use GCP to take care of this easily (instructions in the OP;) this is exactly how I'm set up in my home. The issue is that I want to print to a network at my university, and although I haven't asked, I'm pretty sure they won't be thrilled with me running my RPi as a print server on their network. Last year I got a Mint laptop printing, so I'm pretty sure it's possible. I'll bother the IT people soon because I don't have the time to devote to figuring this out right now. In any event, I'm not complaining about not being able to print. This machine rocks rear end regardless. Also, Poweramp doesn't seem to be an app that works well with my machine. Not a knock on Chromebooks in general, just adding information to the community.
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Hi thread, I'm looking to replace my R11 with something that can be useful for te next 5-8 years. I was thinking about spending around $500 (probably on the 713)but if I can get a Pixelbook Go with the i5/16/128 configuration for about $700 should I jump on that? Thanks in advance!
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