I just purchased one myself and sent it to my YouShop address, at that price it is a steal! I'll probably find a lot of use as it as a second screen with my desktop PC (then I can stick a movie/pdf/music/youtube/gmail/whatever on the Chromebook's screen to watch while I work on the main PC)
Sorta following on from the Youshop thread; grabbed the dimensions from someone who said theyre 38 x 24 x 8cm and shipping weight is 4 lb so YouShop costs should be $31.50. Sub $200 NZD for a basically new Chromebook
Yup, last time I checked back when I did my most recent post they'd still sold thousands and thousands in the past 24hrs, but now it is down to only about a 100 in the past 24hrs (due to the price hike that happened afterwards). Still a decent deal though I reckon.
P1n3apqlExpr3ss: Sorta following on from the Youshop thread; grabbed the dimensions from someone who said theyre 38 x 24 x 8cm and shipping weight is 4 lb so YouShop costs should be $31.50. Sub $200 NZD for a basically new Chromebook
It arrived today. YouShop got the dimensions wrong and thus overcharged me. It wasn't 33cm x 29cm x 26cm , but is instead 33cm x 28cm x 10cm , so I should have been charged $22 not $60. So I'm bringing this up with them now.
dman: Seems this refurbished deal doesn't give us the 100GB of Google Drive space for two years like buying it new does :-( Or am I wrong about this?
You could be right and wrong I guess. I've heard of others getting their 100 GB after asking a Chrome Ninja. Also remember you can get another 10 GB by signing in with your account on the new Android/iOS Quickoffice app
dman: Seems this refurbished deal doesn't give us the 100GB of Google Drive space for two years like buying it new does :-( Or am I wrong about this?
You could be right and wrong I guess. I've heard of others getting their 100 GB after asking a Chrome Ninja. Also remember you can get another 10 GB by signing in with your account on the new Android/iOS Quickoffice app
"The Google Drive storage offer does not apply to used, refurbished, open-box, or pre-owned machines."
Well that sucks :-/
Thanks for the tip however about the QuickOffice app! As I'm already half way through my free 15gigs without even really using Google Drive, and I expect now having a Chromebook I'll be using it a *lot* more, but an extra 10gigs should give me enough breathing room for a while without having to fork out paying for the 100gigs :-)
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