[dba-Tech] Chromebook horror

[John Colby]

Yea, as you've discovered, chromebooks are cheap for a reason.  Actually
two reasons.  No Windows license, and very low end hardware because they
don't need much ro run a browser.  The "32 gb" is exactly what you suspect,
the size of the storage drive.  Main memory is probably 2 gb.

Rooting for you to get it wrestled into a usable shape.

On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 7:02 AM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, all.
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 5:01 PM Gary Kjos <garykjos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > How to tell a Chromebook's hardware info.....
> >
> >
> >
> https://www.howtogeek.com/234454/how-to-view-your-chromebooks-hardware-specifications-and-system-information/
> >
> >
> https://www.groovypost.com/howto/find-chromebook-hardware-and-system-specs/
> >
> > https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-check-chromebook-specs-hardware-4782658
> >
> > https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/check-specs-chromebook/
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 2:45 PM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > In the spirit of experimentation I thought I'd buy a Chromebook. I did
> > > manage to connect it to my  wifi, and that's when the horrors began. I
> > > couldn't remember my Google password and so logged in as a guest, and
> > now I
> > > can't escape that login. (I have recovered my Google password, but
> cannot
> > > sign in as me because I've condemned myself to Guest.)
> > > I watched a video about how to install Windows 10 on a Chromebook. The
> > > vidBelarc works only on Windows and the Settings button doesn't seem to
> > > have a Windows-like option that will tell you what's inside, so how
> can I
> > > learn this? I can't even find the model number. All I know is that it's
> > > made by HP and the salesperson said it's got 32 gigs, but that person -
> > > obviously untrained  - claimed it was 32 gigs of RAM, which was the
> > reason
> > > I bought it. Idiot me; it must mean that it contains a 32 GB hard disk
> > and
> > > who knows, maybe 4GB of RAM. No way I can know without figuring out
> > > Chrome's equivalent of Belarc Advisor or Computer.
> > > If I can, I will convert this to a Windows 10 machine, run Belarc and
> see
> > > what I've been suckered into buying, and then decide what to do with
> it.
> > > Maybe I'll give it to Nellie's, a shelter for abused women in the
> > > neighbourhood, to which I donate  $10 a month -- and then go buy a
> > serious
> > > laptop.
> > > I got suckered by price. My bad.
> > >
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John W. Colby
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