Prycedin via eBay has
Asus Chromebook Flip CX5 (Certified Refurbished; CX5400FMA-DN562T-S) on sale for
$299.
Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member
Dr.Wajahat for finding this deal.
Specs:- 14" FHD (1920 x 1080) 16:9, 300-nits, 100% sRGB, 360-degree, Glossy, IPS Touchscreen Display with stylus support
- Intel Core i5-1130G7 Processor 1.1 GHz (8M Cache, up to 4.0 GHz, 4 cores)
- 16GB LPDDR4X on board
- 512GB M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe 3.0 SSD
- Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80 EUs)
- Wi-Fi 6(802.11ax) (Dual band) 2*2 + BT 5.2
- 720p HD camera With privacy shutter
- Backlit Chiclet Keyboard, 1.5mm Key-travel
- ChromeOS
- Ports:
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
- 2x Thunderbolt 4, compliant with USB4, supports display / power delivery
- 1x 3.5mm Combo Audio Jack
- Micro SD card reader
- 48WHrs, 3S1P, 3-cell Li-ion
- 1.40 kg (3.09 lbs.)
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You can easily run multiple distros of Linux or Windows on them while keeping ChromeOS for light duty tasks.
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I just messaged the seller to ask if they know.
The system could/should make use of whatever amount you have.
Heck you could load the whole OS into RAM in theory.
I typically multitask with many Chrome tabs and Windows. They will sleep when needed and the system will allocate as needed.
My main Windows system has 32gb now but I had one with 8gb, was still able to heavy multitask very nicely on that with some rare slowdowns or similar issues.
I just messaged the seller to ask if they know.
Unless they reset it without changing batteries, it is a lifetime count.
Beyond that they can't just swap out the battery in every refurb. That would be expensive and a staggering waste of resources.
Hopefully they find and bad ones or heavily used ones and make a swap then.
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Big attraction for me on this is that it's fanless. That may also drive some away, because it certainly will throttle because of that fact.
Window runs very slowly in the virtualized environment. Maybe something has changed, but basically you're running a nested VM - qemu/virtual machine manager. But it works.
Running other stuff in the crostini Linux environment is very handy. UltiMaker Cura runs great, and the filesystem sharing stuff makes things handy.
Very nice to have the garaged stylus available too...although I barely use it it's so cool when you actually need it and it's there.
Having updates promised till 2031 is awesome - with the excess of RAM this should be good for some time.
Also, what's stopping someone from just distributing for free when someone buys it from them?
Also, what's stopping someone from just distributing for free when someone buys it from them?
There's a license check built in to the driver that's a bit hard to bypass, and you wouldn't get updates if you pirated it. That said, someone put months of their life into developing these drivers and paying Microsoft for the ability to sign them and it's up to you to decide if you need thunderbolt and built in speakers to work. They provide instructions to get everything else working free of charge. That labor is not baked in to the laptop cost like when you buy an actual windows PC and if you appreciate this sort of hacking you should support it. Save the piracy for the big guys.
before any of that though, check out mrchromebox.tech for the new BIOS/UEFI you'll need to even boot windows.
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But with the specs on this machine, I'd consider a touch screen a positive addition, especially if it were mounted in an accessible area with a dashboard-style interface. If this were $200, I'd probably buy it. For $300, I'm not sure.
I realize this would be dismissing the portability of this device, but I have a great laptop already.
It's funny how projects like the one you described can spiral a bit - at least they do for me. I get an idea for a rapsberry pi project with a screen, then start putting items in my shopping cart and realize the pi 4 costs the same as an old x86 laptop that comes with a screen included. Then I start looking into putting debian onto old x86 laptops and gpio pins for it. Haha.