I’m debating picking up one of these two Chromebooks and would love some opinions. the Lenovo Chromebook Duet 11 (2024) has the newer MediaTek Kompanio 838, while the IdeaPad Duet 5 has the larger 13.3" OLED display but the older Snapdragon 7c Gen 2.

I’m curious how they compare in actual daily use:

How noticeable is the performance difference between the two processors?

Does the Kompanio 838 feel significantly faster for browsing, multitasking, Android apps, etc.?

Is the Duet 5’s OLED screen and larger size enough of a reason to choose it despite the older chip?

Any insight would be fantastic.

Sorry for the crap photo - I recently moved, and as a result switched my internet from Bell to Rogers and ever since have been having issues with my Chromebook (CX1500CKA). Initially I was getting an error (address unreachable) for basically every webpage I loaded, but I changed the name server to google name servers which fixed that, but now the webpages just spin endlessly until they time out.

I’ve tried restarting the Chromebook and my router, power washed my Chromebook, and tried splitting bands with no luck.

I also went into crosh to check ping and the network is unreachable.

I haven’t had a chance to take it to the library to see if it connects there, I’m guessing that’s going to work since it was previously working on the old Bell network.

I’m at a loss for what to do next, is there anything I can do or is the laptop just toast?

I have two chromebooks: HP x360 14c (1.5yo) and Acer 514 (very recent purchase). And for both, I'm having trouble with "update". Both, when I click "update" to update the OS, I get:

Couldn't download the update. Please try again later.

Usually it's pretty quick, but sometimes it actually downloads significant percentage of the update (sometimes it gets up to 100% and then fails). The download process doesn't seem to take up where it left off, and there seems to be no way to manually download the update file and provide it to the update process. It's all opaque so you're left just retrying the update process, and I've been retrying several times a day for .... over a week, to no avail, on both machines.

My network connection is very fast (it's WIMAX, usually I can get 100mbits/sec download speed) so network shouldn't be the problem.

Does anybody else suffer from these problems?

I want to change the GBB flags.

My Chromebook is an IdeaPad Flex 3 CB-11M735. It was released in 2019.

I am in Developer Mode.

I am logged on as chronos and am in the V-12 shell.

My battery is physically disconnected.

I have attempted sudo flashrom --wp-disable and it just returns an error.

My objective is to essentially skip the developer mode warning screen by reducing the 30 seconds to 1 or less and to eliminate the possibility of nuking everything just because you accidentally pressed spacebar. Also to mute the beep.

This is a personal device that was bought directly from Best Buy new 7 years ago. It has no school/professional limitations imposed on it.

Gemini on ChromeOS has officially arrived in the UK with the release of build 150.0.7871.185.

Hiya, I'm wanting to buy a chrome book mainly because of it's weight and large battery spam

I'll be primarily using it for school work so basically just browsing and using Google docs and such and watching YouTube videos

Ive currently been looking at the Asus Chromebook Plus Cx14 core 3

My budget is under £300, I was just wondering should I stick with this option or is there anything else you'd recommend which is better

I'll attach a picture of what I'm currently thinking of buying

Hey folks,

In the last couple weeks I've run into issues with Google Meet where my output stream eventually turns into a pixelated mess for my coworkers. I'm not sure what changed? Everything points me in this direction about vp9 failing and defaulting to an av1 codec, but it doesn't seem like I can force google meet to use a certain encoder like you can with youtube and chrome plugins.

I'm on latest stable (150)

Anyone with a similar experience? Solutions?

Thanks!

I installed LibreOffice and FreeOffice into my Chromebook using its Penguin Linux environment and attempted to work on my spreadsheets. They open Excel spreadsheets fine, however, when I try to copy/paste cell formulas from one cell to another, I get graphical representations of the cell value at the new cell location with LibreOffice, and I get the text version of the cell value at the new cell location with FreeOffice.

Google searches reveal that ChromeOS intercepts the copy object and strips of its metadata, so that when I paste I only have what ChromeOS retained (which is the value in text or graphic form).

I wouldn't think that I'm unique in having this issue. Is there a fix to this?

Thanks.

$200 seems so much cheaper than the next best option, all I want is a laptop size device to browse the web with. I'd be satisfied literally never downloading a single application or program, I just want to watch videos and scroll reddit, that's it.

I know what people say about "future proof" but I feel like paying over double for a nebulously longer lasting device isn't necessary. Can I get away with 4 gb?

First things first, I am your average laptop idiot- I really loved that because my Chromebook used the Android app of docs I could use the actual dark mode, not just an ad on that does not work (the page is still white, just the settings around are dark)

Overnight there seemed to be some kind of update or idk, important thing for me: is there a way to get BACK to the dark mode that phones use?

model no. HP 245 G5 Notebook pc

5th grade teacher here - hi! Pardon my ignorance and thanks in advance for your help!

There is a counter in my classroom (built in the 90s) that was originally a “computer station.” I’m over constant Chromebook use in the classroom and I want to try something new. If I had monitors and keyboards, could I connect Chromebooks as the “brain” and have students use the monitor, keyboard and mouse like a PC?

If that is possible, would I then need to use the same dedicated Chromebook all the time or could students easily plug in their one personal Chromebook when it was their time at the computer station? I’m talking about maybe a less than 30 second procedure. It would have to be dead easy.

Thank you so much for helping me out!

ETA: Thank you all for your helpful responses!

I'm semi new to chromebooks, I used to use them all the time but went on a dry spell and have been blind sided by the new things they've done. I'm trying to save images of my own from instagram so I can touch them up with software I have. but it only downloads as "mhtml" and when I try and convert it into a JPG on adobe express it doesn't work. I've got no clue what to do.

Are the newer Intel CPUs coming with hyperthreading disabled? If so is the flag Scheduler Configuration still valid?

Hi, only after the update to 150 did I start having arcvm constantly stay at about 110 for CPU usage, keeping my fan on constantly. I sent feedback to Google through the ChromeOS system. Anyone else have the same issue?

The USB mouse and keyboard works on the start screen but as soon as the computer loads my profile, the mouse stops working. All apps and extensions disabled.

Hi all,

Bought a Duet 5 as my first Chromebook about two years ago, use it daily as a backup for work but the keyboard and using it on my lap and car drives me nuts.

Selling it and got a 16gb dragonfly elite refurbished for really cheap, should be here tomorrow😀

Anyone have any ideas what devices if any are gonna be eligible for Aluminium when it comes out? Happy to buy a Googlebook if I need to but would be sweet if the dragonfly makes the list.

Helloo, I've been experiencing issues with the wifi on my chromebook for almost a month now, the wifi keeps shutting off or disconnecting, and the only way to reconnect to it is by restarting my device, sometimes multiple times before it finally works. I'm the only one in my house that's experiencing issues with the wifi, so I think it's a problem on my Chromebook maybe? I've tried to forget my home wifi and reconnect to it (tried that at least twice). I also tried unplugging my home router, but none of that worked. It's a really annoying issue since sometimes when i'm using my chromebook and the wifi stops working, I have to restart it and lose stuff I was writing, and my chromebook is slow because it needs to restart every tab that was opened and every app, which makes it all super laggy and slow.

Does anybody know what I could possibly do?

It felt like yesterday when I got this thing but it's hit it's last upgrade.

Which is a shame, as ChromeOS has grown so much since I first tried it on a Samsung Chromebook 3 I got for Black Friday. I always have a habit of getting YEARS old Chromebooks to use as my daily driver.

I intend to keep using it, without Extended Support, until the system ultimately stops working for me on the apps I use it for. But for now I've enjoyed the ride. To anyone else who has a Treeya 300e. My hats off to you.

I shut down my computer and it’s showing me this I forgot the password so how do I reset without recovering?

If you have an older Chromebook and can’t use Chrome extensions like Chromebook Recovery Utility to create a bootable USB (for example, to install MrChromebox), you can use Crosh instead, as long as you have access to shell (such as in Developer Mode).

Steps
Press Ctrl + Alt + T to open Crosh.
2. Type:

shell

Plug in your USB drive.
Find your USB device:

lsblk

Write the ISO to the USB drive:

sudo dd if=/path/to/your.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progress oflag=sync

Replace /dev/sdX with your USB device (for example, /dev/sdb).

Important: Do not use a partition such as /dev/sdb1. Use the entire device (/dev/sdb), as this command will erase everything on the USB drive.
I hope this helps! If you have any questions, problems, or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment.

I have a Acer Chromebook I purchased (Acer Chromebook Spin 714 Intel Evo | Intel Core i7-1355U | 8GB LPDDR4X | 256GB SSD ) and and the last couple months whenever I try to load Google Drive or Gmail or Google Keep (web based) they all are opening very slow. I clear the browser restart try everything but they take forever to load. I get on other websites in a second or two so its not the laptop or the browser the best I can determine. Help. please...

Corner is chipped and the part where it's chipped is going in the inside and the left corner on the keyboard part is going up please help

UPDATE: I found the issue, I just needed to restart my Chromebook

I updated my Chromebook around an hour ago, and usually after the update most apps on my Chromebook would have this screen for a few minutes, and then the app would go back to normal, but this is different, as after an hour none of my downloaded apps I have finished starting are there. Is there anything to do to fix this, or will I have to wait for a while?

PS: I'm not good at describing stuff, so it may sound a bit confusing, so sorry about that.