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Whats best ~200$ chromebook (specs, build quality, screen size)

Can all chromebooks run ubuntu?

Is a chromebook powerful enough to play streamed steam games?

Are there any chromebooks planned to be released in the next 3 months?

Thats pretty much it~

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No, a pentium 4 laptop would be better at games than a chromebook

 

 

Just NO

it wont be the Chromebook playing the games, they will be streamed from my main computer

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I think you will get better off with the intel celeron haswell chromebooks, find one that has the best specs.

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Most chromebook are essentially really old phone processor put into a laptop.

I don't know if it will run Ubuntu, but if you get a x86 one as Probenja, than maybe, but I don't see why not, unless the manufacture did stuff to lock it, like Samsung Windows 7 and 8 laptops.

Personally I would look into a Windows 8.1 ~300$ Atom base system or something like that.

At least you run full Windows, and that means you can run anything you want, a perhaps, worthy small premium over chromebook.

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Whats best ~200$ chromebook (specs, build quality, screen size)

Can all chromebooks run ubuntu?

Is a chromebook powerful enough to play streamed steam games?

Are there any chromebooks planned to be released in the next 3 months?

Thats pretty much it~

Wait for the new Samsung Chromebook to come out. it han an 8 core Exynos ARM CPU.

 

Not all Chromebooks can run Ubuntu, the x86 CPU Chromebooks can for the most part.

 

Chromebooks can't natively stream steam games because they can't run steam on ChromeOS

 

The Samsung Chromebook should be released in the next few months.

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