Acer 317 Chromebook - 17.3 Intel Celeron N4500 1.1GHz 4GB RAM 64GB ChromeOS

Ive had an old Acer Chromebook for years. It stopped updating last year so I bought this one. The battery life is horrid, worse than my 7 year old Chromebook, maybe 2 days tops. I only use it for math 5 days a week, for 20 min a day.

I work at Walmart and our electronic departments team lead told me they had this 17.3 Chromebook from Acer for $100. I was warned it had a few hiccups. The first thing I did was turn it on and perform a factory reset, a power wash as they call it here and once I did that, just like another comment; you type your Google username and password and off you go. I installed a IPTV app and the picture is pretty darn good. As for the hiccups, I have experienced the same issues; the screen blacking out, not sure it turned itself off which later thats exactly what it unexpectedly did in fact do, which was kind enough to tell me upon restart thats exactly what happened. I do my best to keep the laptop lean and clean, but it is painfully and slugglishly slow. Its an average laptop. It does everything I need it to do for all my online activities and cloud productivity chores, but its one constant is, its slow. For the $100 I spent, not bad, not great, but thus far gets the job done for me while I am not home. Its not Windows!!!

Lasted 3 months and when I contacted acer, I learned that my chromebook was already over a year old.

I love love love chromebooks.  they are blazingly fast, do not get hot in your lap, weigh only a few pounds and have no inner fan, so they are silent. I use this  for my Tv. With a  chromebook? you open the lid and you are instantly online, ready to go. Is crazy Fast.

This is a great computer for the price. It showed up brand new and it works great. Exactly what I thought it was going to be!

Bought as refurbished from manufacturer; missing charger and had to buy. Had a bug that wouldnt allow to fully charge; had to reset a couple times... otherwise it has a nice screen and fast enough for the basics. Go with the top end vs the basic.

Yeah good for light games

Easy to set up. I dont take my device many places so the larger size is not problem carting merely from room to room. I admit my last chrome book was a very similar acer brand so it has been nice to not have to relearn every single thing.

This Chromebook Is great to write docs stream shows and more. You can leave the Chromebook plugged in and it doesn’t get hot. 2 ucb type c ports on both sides. Headphone combo jack and memory card slot are also available. No hdmi port but you can buy a usb hub and extend the capability.

no wonder i got such a great deal :-( the browser is out of date and i can not watch most videos let alone streaming services.