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Re:Low-end laptops:The rise of the Chromebook by jseliger on Sunday November 10, 2013 @06:18PM (#6708942)
I can't afford a Mac

Consider buying used, either from Craigslist or a dealer; three-year-old Macs are still very nice and cost about half to a third of new ones (I know, because I sell my firm's old Macs on Craigslist).

If you're proficient with hardware, it's also possible to dramatically improve performance by installing a cheap SSD.

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Re:Low-end laptops:The rise of the Chromebook by richardpetersen on Sunday November 10, 2013 @06:46PM (#6709054)
I did - I got a PowerPC G4 or G5. The problem was I couldn't upgrade it past os 10.5 and the latest version of chrome at the time wouldn't run on anything less than 10.6 or something like that so nothing would work properly.
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