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Review on ๐Ÿ–ฅ๏ธ Dell Chromebook 11 3180 83C80 11.6-Inch Traditional Laptop (Black) - Renewed, Enhanced SEO by Jerry Anderson

Revainrating 3 out of 5

A good machine for Linux

I've had this baby for almost a year now. My rating is based on paying $100 with realistic expectations of what this Dell was built to do. Also, I bought this specifically for Linux OS installation. I would NOT run Windows 10 on it unless you're really digging around and watching your laptop spin and spin and spin as Windows does its bloated clunky dance, leaving you wondering when you're gaming (or working) be able. In addition, Windows gobbles up almost all 32 GB of internal memory. This is a solid $100 deal. I had 4GB RAM, 32GB eMMc. Connections: 2 USB, HDMI, microSD. It's a light machine at around 3 pounds, decent battery life and a surprisingly solid build, although it doesn't feel like it at first. This is an economical portable laptop that works well after you unplug Windows from it. The trackpad works perfectly. There is no touch screen. I could install any number of Linux distributions on it. The hardware worked with everything I threw at it, although I didn't do anything exotic with it. Everything worked fine: - Ubuntu variants - Ubuntu-based distributions (mint, elementary, pop, etc.) - Manjaro - gnome, xfce, kde - MX - Solus Maybe there are others I forgot. These distros will leave you some space on the eMMc, but I will also leave a 128GB SD card where I have around 30GB of music and I store ISO files that I might want to boot back up to. And any other random stuff I load and save for no apparent reason. I had Pop! I've been at this for a while now because I've rarely bounced around distros lately. It loads in about 25 seconds, is extremely responsive once loaded, and updates in minutes or less when there's an update. It won't blow your mind, but it's really painless, reliable, and easyPop has a USB creator that I enjoy using, so I use this computer a lot when creating a boot drive. Even when I'm traveling and just need something small and light to take with me without worrying about it being damaged. I will take it. My friend has a Chromebook version of the same machine that has MUCH better battery life. My machine runs in the range of 4-5 hours with normal usage, the Chromebook is around 12 and this machine is also efficient and fast. I personally don't like Chromebooks, but some people do.

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