Success: HP 15-de0310ng (8th Gen i3) SYNDRA
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I got a HP Chromebook used, bought it to flash it and convert it into a nice secure Linux machine. The CPU is quite old and actively cooled, but the display is huge! Will become a nice workstation once a real OS is on there (go away Gemini). 1. Logging in normally I started it up normally. Loggin in with a previously created Google Account always required giving a phone number, so I created a new one, and under “advanced” (bottom left) I was able to skip the phone number. Question: Is this...

The CPU is quite old and the ports are horrendous.

But that machine has a crazy screen, pretty nice keyboard (actually my first laptop with a numpad ever) and the fan is really silent.

And the install was very easy. Now runs Fedora Kinoite!

Chromebooks, with Linux, not just ChromeOS (the batterylife difference is tiny) are really great for simple office stuff and even media consumption, while being efficient.

My main, 11in Lenovo Chromebook just lost 30% batterylife over a course of 4 hours or more. And it costed 140€!