Some of the chromebooks offered to schools dont come from google. Some go to an actual leasing company who then gets chromebooks, mainly from lenovo due to them being the biggest leasing business in the game. Ive seen my fair share of terrible chrome books, but there are definately schools who lease what is basically the chromebook equivalent to a thinkpad
Souce: work in ewaste so i see what gets thrown out first hand.
Totally - I’ve seen chromebooks that run fine, and it’s good to know that not all school districts are buying garbage machines. I was only speaking to my experience with my son’s, which was a Google branded chromebook - he got it roughly four years ago.
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Some of the chromebooks offered to schools dont come from google. Some go to an actual leasing company who then gets chromebooks, mainly from lenovo due to them being the biggest leasing business in the game. Ive seen my fair share of terrible chrome books, but there are definately schools who lease what is basically the chromebook equivalent to a thinkpad
Souce: work in ewaste so i see what gets thrown out first hand.
Any idea what the specs were on the terrible ones?
Totally - I’ve seen chromebooks that run fine, and it’s good to know that not all school districts are buying garbage machines. I was only speaking to my experience with my son’s, which was a Google branded chromebook - he got it roughly four years ago.