Overall, this Chromebook does its job. Given the extremely low price, I will not remove any stars from the rating due to my complaints.
It feels solidly built, it charges from USB type C on either side, and the battery lasts plenty long enough. I use mine for Google Sheets/Drive/Gmail. I’ll have a half dozen tabs open with Spotify playing and it keeps up just fine. As a bonus, I can easily switch between my personal and work account by signing in and out. No mixed up passwords or sending an email from the wrong account.
Downsides: Screen. It’s pretty crappy. You get all of the advertised resolution, which I find to be viable, but it’s literally impossible to avoid color shift. From a normal viewing angle, the top and bottom of a white screen will not match. Other downside is the chrome OS. I knew that I would be limited on programs going into this, but unfortunately some apps are stuck in the mobile version. I tried to use a Remote Desktop app to control my office PC. The app only used the center part of my screen as if it was a phone. On top of that, the app letterboxed the ultra wide screen display. I was left with a “desktop” the size of my thumb in the middle of the screen.
Short version: If you need something inexpensive to run some web browsing and google apps, you won’t be upset.
| Standing screen display size | 14 Inches |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 1366 x 768 pixels |
| Max Screen Resolution | 1366 x 768 Pixels |
| Processor | 2.4 GHz celeron |
| RAM | 4 GB LPDDR4 |
| Memory Speed | 2400 MHz |
| Hard Drive | 32 GB Emmc |
| Graphics Coprocessor | Intel HD Graphics 500 |
| Chipset Brand | Intel |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 1 GB |
| Wireless Type | 802.11ac |
| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 3 |
| Average Battery Life (in hours) | 10 Hours |
