What do I want from Costco?

[Buzzworthy]

Do it. Went from a MacBook Pro to this Air with the M3 chip. Works great. Was on it for 6 hours straight yesterday and the battery only went down to 72%.
Light, nice keyboard and touch pad.

Here’s the Groupon for MS Office 2021 1 license download: http://www.groupon.com/deals/us-glob...urce=undefined

[riser4]

Do it. Went from a MacBook Pro to this Air with the M3 chip. Works great. Was on it for 6 hours straight yesterday and the battery only went down to 72%.
Light, nice keyboard and touch pad.

Um, I think folks are talking about Chromebooks now. The M3 Air was before that.

Personally, I'm a big fan of Chromebooks. I like the ones with smaller screens. I have a Lenovo with a touch screen right now that flips around into a tablet. Pretty slick.

[evdog]

Currently sitting in this guy enjoying the air conditioning while I decide if this is the chair for me. It's pretty comfy





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[phatty]

These are not a bad deal, but there are so many shops sitting on dated inventory right now, that finding something at $3k that retailed higher shouldnt be a problem. Wife's Mother found a $5k specialized stumpy comp marked down to $2750 yesterday.

Tl;DR: good price, better options out there.

Yeah, Costco was selling this same bike for $2K over the winter. I bet you can find something pretty nice for $3k as the summer comes to a close.

[The SnowShow]

https://www.costco.com/intense-951-t...000136517.html

Worth it?

I think you can do better at $3000. A Ripmo or Ripley for instance. Or a YT Jeffsy.

[evdog]

I know quite a few people who've bought the 951 bikes. They've all been pretty happy with them, especially those who got sweet sale prices. Just upgrade as stuff wears out.

[sb]

Get the chairs, wee love ours. Online they were $40 each.

[sb]

Intense has open box 951 bikes, may go that route.

[Brasso]

Buy my bike! I just dropped it down to $1600. https://www.tetongravity.com/forums/...a-Sal-Peak-(L)

[Touring_Sedan]

Likewise if anyone is in need of a basic laptop - you could do a whole lot worse than the Acer Chromebook Plus for $299. Solid specs. Chromebooks aren't the underpowered pieces of shit you remember from 6 years ago. 256gb ssd, 8gb of RAM, can run android apps (and Linux), boots quick, touchscreen, and 10 years of guaranteed OS support.

95% of shit I do now is browser based. Been running one for 6mo now pretty happily. Configuring 3D printer slicers is the only thing that was a bit of a PITA.

https://www.costco.com/acer-chromebo...000218802.html

The Lenovo version has been going for about $100 off on eBay lately. They say it's "refurbished" but mine came brand new and sealed.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/155636085622

[doebedoe]

Solid deal. The Lenovo one though I don't believe qualifies as a "Chromebook Plus" which includes longer term of support from Google (10yrs vs typical 5). Believe it's cause it uses eMMC vs SSD for storage (slower).

[evdog]

Get the chairs, wee love ours. Online they were $40 each.

Thx. Checked out the site. It's now $60 there. But they have another version in red plaid that comes with a footrest. Grabbed the one from the store while I was there so I'll live with it

[sb]

Nice, ours do not have a foot rest.

I may need to scope the local store.

[Touring_Sedan]

Solid deal. The Lenovo one though I don't believe qualifies as a "Chromebook Plus" which includes longer term of support from Google (10yrs vs typical 5). Believe it's cause it uses eMMC vs SSD for storage (slower).

Lenovo would disagree? I have at least a dozen or so active Chromebooks between myself, the wife, and the two kids. In terms of performance, it's a complete crapshoot. You might have one with an i5 processor that's slow as dogshit and one with an ancient MediaTek that's fast as fuck. It just depends on the rest of the components and what was loaded in the parts canon when the pulled the trigger.

FWIW, this Lenovo IdeaPad 5 is probably one of the faster units I have. It'll handle multiple tabs and windows pretty easily, even with the big ass screen and upped resolution.

Highly Recommend.

[riser4]

Lenovo would disagree? I have at least a dozen or so active Chromebooks between myself, the wife, and the two kids. In terms of performance, it's a complete crapshoot. You might have one with an i5 processor that's slow as dogshit and one with an ancient MediaTek that's fast as fuck. It just depends on the rest of the components and what was loaded in the parts canon when the pulled the trigger.

You are very correct. That has been my experience with Chromebooks.

[nickwm21]

There’s a whole world between a $150 Chromebook and a $1500 Chromebook.


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[Touring_Sedan]

There’s a whole world between a $150 Chromebook and a $1500 Chromebook.


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Who the fuck spends $1500 on a Chromebook?!!!! I top out at ~$200. If I need something more powerful, I'm reaching for a windows based system with at least a modern i5.

[riser4]

Who the fuck spends $1500 on a Chromebook?!!!! I top out at ~$200. If I need something more powerful, I'm reaching for a windows based system with at least a modern i5.

No idea. But there are some good Chromebooks between $200 and $500 that are worthwhile owning. And are highly likely to perform better than windows on that same hardware. Unfortunately, as stated by touring sedan, processor spec alone does not tell the whole performance story for Chromebooks, or any laptop.

[doebedoe]

I paid $375 for my refurb Spin 714 from Acer. Well built, fast enough, and some nice QoL features like touchscreen and tablet hinge. Being able to stand it up in "presentation mode" and use it in the kitchen for recipes with a touchscreen is one of those things you don't know you needed until you have it.

[nickwm21]

No idea. But there are some good Chromebooks between $200 and $500 that are worthwhile owning. And are highly likely to perform better than windows on that same hardware. Unfortunately, as stated by touring sedan, processor spec alone does not tell the whole performance story for Chromebooks, or any laptop.

This.. I’d say the $400-$600 range. Anything sub $300 is really just a YouTube / word processor machine.

My daily driver Chromebook; a $500 ASUS Flip I bought in 2018.

A 2018 $500 windows laptop would likely be in a landfill right now.

You have to spend $1000 to get a Mac with a keyboard.


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[Touring_Sedan]

This.. I’d say the $400-$600 range. Anything sub $300 is really just a YouTube / word processor machine.

My daily driver Chromebook; a $500 ASUS Flip I bought in 2018.

A 2018 $500 windows laptop would likely be in a landfill right now.

You have to spend $1000 to get a Mac with a keyboard.


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I'm curious, what are people doing with high powered Chromebooks? Isn't treating it like a cloud terminal the entire point. If I'm editing media, I'm grabbing my Thinkpad with the Adobe suite. Why shell out $500 to watch Youtube or check your Gmail?

[doebedoe]

I'm curious, what are people doing with high powered Chromebooks? Isn't treating it like a cloud terminal the entire point. If I'm editing media, I'm grabbing my Thinkpad with the Adobe suite. Why shell out $500 to watch Youtube or check your Gmail?

- Better build quality. A nicer keyboard, a better screen, more natural trackpad, bigger battery. Those add up if you're using it as your main device, even if 98% of your work is in a browser.
- Touchscreens and tablet modes are generally on higher end models. Personally I sketch on mine a good bit. And use it for cooking new recipes several times a week.

I don't have a lot of experience with cheap Chromebooks. But i will say with mine (which is $500+ new) -- I have no issue watching something streaming, running a 3D slicer in Linux and running a ton of tabs in a browser at the same time.

[nickwm21]

I'm curious, what are people doing with high powered Chromebooks? Isn't treating it like a cloud terminal the entire point. If I'm editing media, I'm grabbing my Thinkpad with the Adobe suite. Why shell out $500 to watch Youtube or check your Gmail?

Light photo and video editing
Sketchup drafting for home projects
Personal Docs
Quickbooks and taxes

Stuff I wouldn’t want to do on my work laptop.

What percentage of $1500 MacBook users - use their machine exclusively for YouTube and gmail? 80%?


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[riser4]

I'm curious, what are people doing with high powered Chromebooks? Isn't treating it like a cloud terminal the entire point. If I'm editing media, I'm grabbing my Thinkpad with the Adobe suite. Why shell out $500 to watch Youtube or check your Gmail?

A few spreadsheets. A doc or two. Video calls with screen sharing. Maybe some coding [practice], or Gimp, with Linux mode enabled. I watch movies on it in a hotel because I don't carry a tablet, see my preferred size range below. And I go for what I consider lower mid-range to upper low-range. I don't think I've personally spent more than $350, after discounts and sales. I also like the 12" +/- screen size like an Ultra Book or Air. I could see getting close to $500 in the right circumstances. At the moment anything that requires more than that is a job for a desktop. Between $500 and $800 on a laptop is sort of a no man's land. Said laptops don't come with the specs I want as a minimum for Windows but are too pricey for me to stomach on a Chromebook. All of the above is for personal use. If it's for work, they buy that for me and I use what they want.

[carlh]

Will chromebooks run on shape?