It appears my mom’s 2015 Chromebook Pixel - the single best computer I’ve even gotten her! - has a weirdly broken display. A tragedy there’s not a Chromebook this nice left to replace it with www.theverge.com/2016/2/1/108... - ThreadSky

reckless.bsky.social • 120 days ago

It appears my mom’s 2015 Chromebook Pixel - the single best computer I’ve even gotten her! - has a weirdly broken display. A tragedy there’s not a Chromebook this nice left to replace it with https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/1/10884918/i-bought-my-mom-a-chromebook-pixel-the-divergence

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quacksnack.bsky.social•120 days ago

What are you thinking for a replacement? New MacBooks are hard to beat

bennyfactor.bsky.social•120 days ago

several lcd touch screen assemblies (ie the entire upper half of the laptop) for reasonable prices on ebay. Just need one of those ifixit screwdriver kits and a replacement guide

tactical-grace.bsky.social•120 days ago

Here's the iFixit guide for the Pixel:

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Chromebook+Pixel+Disassembly/98023

reckless.bsky.social•120 days ago

Kind of not worth it as it’s also EOL and not getting any more security updates. A decade is a good run!

simiusverinus.bsky.social•120 days ago

Looks like water damage? I bet if you're really wanted to keep it going, you could get the screen replaced.

gtoffo.bsky.social•120 days ago

Looks like a horrid ripoff of a MacBook….

reckless.bsky.social•120 days ago

MacBooks at the time looked wildly different!

gtoffo.bsky.social•120 days ago

Not really… this was basically a cheap ripoff

https://www.engadget.com/2015-03-31-macbook-pro-with-retina-display-review-13-inch-2015.html

reckless.bsky.social•120 days ago

I had both. Wildly different

gtoffo.bsky.social•120 days ago

🤷

reckless.bsky.social•120 days ago

It turns out things can be different shapes

han-shot-first.bsky.social•120 days ago

RIP

byppk.com•120 days ago

We shall hold a moment of silence on this weeks vergecast

grahamross.bsky.social•120 days ago

Send it to me, I will replace the screen and send it back, no charge apart from postage.

koech.bsky.social•120 days ago

Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus.

saifire.net•119 days ago

It lasted almost 10 years, not a bad time to replace it 😅

pushshove.bsky.social•120 days ago

Grab an old MacBook Air and install chrome OS on it

vtrduong.bsky.social•120 days ago

What made that particular computer the best one you got her and why are current ones not as good?🤔

computing.bsky.social•120 days ago

i bought used one of these for ~$200 in 2019. it was a great travel computer that was still snappy with a gorgeous display. chromebooks remain criminally underinvested in

ryndshn.bsky.social•120 days ago

i wanted one of these so bad back in the day. had dreams of running linux on one

ck1125.bsky.social•120 days ago

Chromebooks are really stable and I hope that Google won't be their usual selves and discontinue them. In the interim the guys at ChromeUnboxed might have a good answer for you..

stevenbock.me•120 days ago

I just posted about the current weird state of computer parts last night. Short answer is that it's a perfect storm of Spectre/Meltdown and covid era manufacturing reductions. I've also been seeing a ton of Q/A issues.

bobtheguardian.bsky.social•120 days ago

Doesn’t Samsung still make some fancier Chromebooks?

abbenay.bsky.social•120 days ago

You know you can just buy another one second hand right? There are plenty of chromebooks around exactly as nice to replace it with. We don’t need to buy brand new computers every time.

reckless.bsky.social•120 days ago

This is such an odd response to someone saying a computer has lasted nearly a decade

abbenay.bsky.social•120 days ago

Haha! Very true. I just mean if you love it, and you can’t find a new one at the same spec, get another! Don’t reward the manufacturers for being mediocre. It frustrates me that 10 years is a good innings for a computer. These machines could last 30yrs if they were supported properly.

abbenay.bsky.social•120 days ago

I use a 2015 MacBook Pro for pro video design work and it still does the job fine. I dread the day that Apple artificially nukes it by dropping software support. My 2016 iPhone just had half the apps stop working - but the physical phone still works great. So stupid.

abbenay.bsky.social•120 days ago

I accept that I am odd!

serkoart.bsky.social•120 days ago

How many years use did she get out of it?

sethlilly.bsky.social•120 days ago

The infamous Chromebook finally reached EOL! You’ve mentioned it several times on the Vergecast. Might there be a segment or article about the quest to replace it… ?

techzha.bsky.social•118 days ago

Did Apple Intelligence summarize it correctly @reckless.bsky.social ? 😛

trevozneoma.bsky.social•120 days ago

It’s just a scratch Eleanor, it can be fixed.

dmlsfca.bsky.social•120 days ago

Earlier this year I got my mom an M2 MacBook Air, her first Mac ever and first Apple computer since the IIGS we had in 1986. It was love at first sight.

darrsil.bsky.social•120 days ago

I was going to say to look into the Framework Chromebook but it looks like they've discontinued that :(

kenfromchicago.bsky.social•120 days ago

People been saying the same thing about Windows 7. "Progress."🤣😭

ericrie.se•120 days ago

I'd think the @frameworkputer.bsky.social Chromebook would be fairly close, but alas it's out of stock

waffletoaster.bsky.social•120 days ago

You may have a while to wait. What will you go with in the meantime? https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/18/24299817/google-reboot-laptop-tablet-hardware-rumors-android-chrome-os

baltmatrix.bsky.social•120 days ago

There are a bunch of these on eBay for around $150. Might be worth getting one for her.

baltmatrix.bsky.social•120 days ago

Holy moly. That’s one heck of a broken display. It’s a bummer as that was an amazing machine.

mcilvena.com•120 days ago

One of the great devices. I put this in my same category as the HTC One M7

louiseke.bsky.social•113 days ago

HP Chromebook ELITE DRAGONFLY is an amazing Chromebook

willhayward91.bsky.social•120 days ago

Living in fear of the day my Chromebook Pixel meets a similar fate

drnonlinear-banana.bsky.social•120 days ago

totally on board with parents and chromebooks, my dad is also using a 15 year old chromebook! he reads the news from a few different papers, basically the only thing he needs.

hokanson.bsky.social•120 days ago

Seconded. I set up my mother-in-law with a Chromebox (an old Windows enterprise HP I got in Amazon for $150 + Dell monitor) because she didn’t event want to mess with a laptop, and it’s been wonderful.

drnonlinear-banana.bsky.social•120 days ago

my dad doesn't even log in. He just wants it to act like a magic digital newspaper.

lyooth.bsky.social•119 days ago

Ofc it works, its basically linux. Trust the penguin.

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