[hammerandtongs]

I'd be interested but ...

4gig ram.

Nice screens, reasonable processing power but they throttle the ram to make you want to spend the $500-750 for the "power" of.... 8 gigs of ram. But with the bloat of a useless(to me) windows license included.

How long is the chromebook spec going to stay like this? It's awful and holding them back.

It's nonsensical in 2018 to have this little ram on a laptop,chromebooks included but there it is still.

[pgeorgi]

there are models with 8gb. with the expanded scope (android, linux), there will be pressure to increase RAM.

Just like Android already increased the storage availability (3 years ago people would have laughed about a chromebook with 256gb storage - what's the point? And now there's Pixelbook)

[hammerandtongs]

Yes and the 8g models of chromebook (there are 2 right?) are $750+

[bpye]

HP Chromebook G1 goes up to 16GB with the M7 model. I have the M3 one with 4GB RAM and it works well for me with either ChromeOS + crouton or plain Ubuntu 18.04. It should get Linux app support too, it's a fairly recent device.

EDIT: looks like you can get the M7 for <600$ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M29N9BR/ref=as_li_qf_sp...

[hammerandtongs]

You know I'd rather see some of these chrome books with 8g and still in the $300 range.

But thanks, that's actually a nice little machine.

[forgot-my-pw]

Have you used one? The OS is so lightweight, it doesn't seem to matter.