I had quite a few of Chromebooks in my hands. I actually sold my late ‘14 Macbook Pro as I was still able to sell it quite well and did not loose much on it, because I used the MBP only for Lightroom when I was on the road. And for that I have another laptop, although very big and heavy (HP mobile workstation). The best Chromebook in terms of build quality, speed and battery was Acer 11. But the TN display is HORRIBLE. Because of that I bought the Toshiba Chromebook 2, 2015 model (if you are in the market for one, buy the 2014 model - there is not much difference in power, but the new Celerons and i3 have a fan. the 2014 is fanless - makes all the difference int he world, as the fan on ‘15 is crappy almost always on. Only better thing in ‘15 model is that you can swap the drive for msata ssd, there is not the slow emmc anymore).

The IPS display is beautiful, but battery life is poor, the build quality makes my cry, it is paper thin plastic that bends like jelly, especially the display - you will bend it so much just by opening the lid that every time you do that you are sure the display is dead.

So why the fuck they can’t just take the cheap 150-200 USD/EUR chromebooks, and put IPS display there and sell it for higher price. Why they always put there the crappy display that has about 10 color it can display and the viewing angle is zero, because no matter from what angle you look at it always some part of the color spectrum is distortet.

I love Chrome OS and I am waiting for some usable chrome hdmi stick, so I don’t have to power up my huge gaming rig if i just want to browse and watch videos, but the plethora of chromebooks is mostly bad.

