HP’s New Rugged Education Edition Chromebooks: 11.6- & 14-Inch Displays, Low-Power CPUs

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• Lakados - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link

  I would be intereseted in these but my experience with HP so far on parts replacements and availability has been less than stellar. Ruggid is great but kids destroy the keyboards on these things and often the screens too. At least 3x a semester somebody will forget a pen at the top of the keyboard and close the screen cracking it, and there is always one little brat who thinks it will be funny to re arrange the keyboard and they break it in the process. I am looking at 6 of them just to my left that have been busted this way this year.

• PeachNCream - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link

  Ouch! Educational system IT department? You're a brave soul and I salute you for doing what you do.

• ablevemona - Saturday, January 25, 2020 - link

  I've also been unimpressed by the design of a few generations of HP Chromebooks now in terms of durability and repairability. With ridiculous degrees of part replacement required for relatively small areas of damage. I wouldn't really say they are fit for purpose.

• CecilFitzgerald - Monday, October 12, 2020 - link

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• phoenix_rizzen - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link

  Article says eMMC 5.1, table says eMMC 5.0. One of those should be corrected.

• HStewart - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link

  One thing that I have not figure out, why are not Chromebooks using Qualcomm instead of Windows. It just seams a better fit and only thing I can think of it deficiency in OS. For me personally, I would never consider either a Chromebook or Windows for ARM ( Qualcomm ) laptop but I would serious consider a Qualcomm based Chromebook for some light.

• Lakados - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link

  ARM based chromebooks exist but they were either horribly under powered or way too expensive. For the price point the cheap Intel Celerons are pretty bang on. These are education targeted devices so I would expect them to be coming in under $350 USD each for the base config.

• phoenix_rizzen - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link

  1366×768 resolution needs to just die already (as do all of the 16:9 resolutions). Especially in a <15" screen size. 16:10 or 3:2 or even 4:3. The lack of vertical space in these small devices is a pain!
  
  1920x1080 really should be the minimum resolution, regardless of screen size. 1920x1200 would be better.

• Inteli - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link

  It's not a great resolution, but it's an extremely cheap resolution, which is perfect for these cost-engineered laptops. Besides, I doubt the kids using them will care.

• Lakados - Thursday, January 23, 2020 - link

  They don’t care, schools are limited on bandwidth, have 200+ students streaming YouTube at 1080p+ and my phone would be ringing constantly that the internet is down or slow. At the lower resolutions doing up word documents research websites or anything else just works. Not to mention these things need a bare minimum of an 8h battery life and the lower resolutions help that a lot. These things are designed to come in under $350 USD and there are a lot of corners you have to cut to offer a stable product and still hit that price point. These are about on par spec wise as the Dell and Asus chromebooks that we order in bulk.