Best budget Chromebook?

[Jsmittysmith616]

I am looking for the best performance Chromebook for $500USD. I am willing to lose some performance for features if required. It will be used for college work. Thank you in advance!

[Helpful Tech Witch]

For 500$ us, get a used actual laptop please, youll thank yourself.

[Dedayog]

57 minutes ago, Jsmittysmith616 said:

I am looking for the best performance Chromebook for $500USD. I am willing to lose some performance for features if required. It will be used for college work. Thank you in advance!

For $399 I am liking this one..  Ryzen 3 5425U 4c/8t

 

HP Essential 255 G9 Laptop, 15.6" FHD Display, AMD Ryzen 3 5425U Processor, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Webcam, Numeric Keypad, Wi-Fi, RJ45, HDMI, Windows 11 Pro - Newegg.com

 

Or $450... Ryzen 5 5500U 6c/12t

 

https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-V15-Hexa-core-Processor-i7-1065G7/dp/B0CK9JSM3G/ref=sr_1_7_sspa?keywords=laptop%2B%24500&qid=1704729019&sr=8-7-spons&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.c3015c4a-46bb-44b9-81a4-dc28e6d374b3&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9tdGY&th=1

 

[jaslion]

Honestly 500$ chromebooks are quite a ripoff as they offer cruddy specs for the budget.

 

For college get an actual laptop 500$ is plenty. You'll get FAR more value out of an actual laptop (also no bussiness uses chrome os and a lot actively deny people that xant use windows or OFFICE properly at a basic level).

 

Also you can use it offline it's not just an internet terminal plud a lot a universities will hit ya with and now install x program. Oh you have a mac, chromebook,... well too bad

[Jsmittysmith616]

20 hours ago, jaslion said:

Honestly 500$ chromebooks are quite a ripoff as they offer cruddy specs for the budget.

 

For college get an actual laptop 500$ is plenty. You'll get FAR more value out of an actual laptop (also no bussiness uses chrome os and a lot actively deny people that xant use windows or OFFICE properly at a basic level).

 

Also you can use it offline it's not just an internet terminal plud a lot a universities will hit ya with and now install x program. Oh you have a mac, chromebook,... well too bad

Makes sense, do you have any recommendations?

[jaslion]

9 hours ago, Jsmittysmith616 said:

Makes sense, do you have any recommendations?

Yeah sure

 

https://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-IdeaPad-Flex-5-2023-Touchscreen/dp/B0BWSG8VDK/ref=mp_s_a_1_17?crid=6EUJ1MOZVABS&keywords=5500u&qid=1704841764&sprefix=5500u%2Caps%2C349&sr=8-17

 

You have evrything here.

 

Wanna write on the screen? Sure

 

Performant cpu

 

Good battery

 

16gb of ram

 

storage is a bit low but it is actually upgradable if you so wish.

 

 

Whatch out for the lenovo v15 laptops. They look great on the specs but use a very old tn screen which has bad viewing angles and poor color reproduction.

 

They are pretty good latops the screen just kinda sucks. If you re used to chromebooks its what most of them use.