The Chromebook is brand new straight from Amazon.

Google says your ebay laptop costs somewhere between $900 and $1,400 in new condition depending on what model it is. Yours is also "smashed and cracked" with no AC adapter based on the description.

I don't really mind if there's something faster because I spend time developing 10,000+ line Dockerized Rails apps with the Chromebook along with having a bunch of browser tabs open and streaming music, etc.. and it all runs great.

That Chromebook I mentioned is just a perfect storm of high quality components at a good price. I hope it lasts another 5+ years.

> CORNER OF PALM REST SMASHED AND CRACKED, SPREADS TO BOTTOM COVER

I assume parent spoke about a new Chromebook, not a used (broken) one

This is a listing for a second-hand laptop, if the Chromebook had been bought second-hand too it would have probably cost significantly less than this.

This "second-hand laptop" is much more powerful than chromebook and can be found for less money. I just use the same price range.

And a second hand Chromebook is cheaper than the new Chromebook price point. I guess you could then suggest stealing a non Chromebook laptop as a "better deal" to support a specious argument.

But you don't get the minimalist Chromebook keyboard.

Plus laptop CPU thermal management has a lot of problems. I would prefer a modern and fanless Chromebook to an old laptop where the fans are whirring away the whole time for no evidence of performance gain.

I am hoping that there will soon be an eight generation Pentium inside a high end Chromebook with that Chromebook running linux things like a web server natively. No idea how the IDE is going to work running that way but that is where I would like my dev environment to be going.

You can still get refurbished Chromebooks, I bought a Dell one and I think that come the apocalypse there will be cockroaches and my Dell Chromebook running, if nothing else, as it is that indestructible. Plus charging seems optional. It goes for days.

> Plus laptop CPU thermal management has a lot of problems.

The business class machine means no thermal problems and keyboard problems by default - probably many people who use Pentium on Acer just don't know.