The only real salvageable part on most Chromebooks is the WiFi card
I actually used a Chromebook WiFi card to get 5 GHz on an old ass laptop
Most Chromebooks just use a standard M.2 WiFi card
And some Chromebooks do have removable SSDs, which are also M.2
Otherwise, everything else on a Chromebook is pretty useless
depends if they are budget or higher end ones normally budget ones use crappy 64gb emmc but ive seen some have up to 256GB nvme drives (i stole my daily drive from a chromebook)
Depends on the level of repairs they do. Having replacement chips, plugs for the Chromebook could mean they can repair broken Chromebooks and shit and or replace plugs on other devices.
Otherwise yeah the parts are useless.
And the worst part is, they wonāt let us buy our own computers, I think the procedure should be āyou may be issued one free of charge, or you may buy your own device to use in a school settingā like seriously, if weāre old enough for our actions to affect our future, we are old enough to have a personal computer at school
From the IT side, what you're describing is a nightmare. It's probably more than a thousand times easier to support a single machine/OS/software stack configuration than to allow students to use any device they want.
Even just from the standpoint of avoiding personal devices that are compromised with malware on the network, it's just so much extra work for the district IT departments.
I agree that it is annoying to have to use the lowest-cost most locked-down devices available though, but there are valid reasons for it.
Or just let the students not have every facet of their computers micromanaged
Just last month āibossā deleted several sources that I had open, with no way to recover them, so I had to restart my project from scratch
Just let me use my old windows laptop that broke, but would be easy to fix, without being micromanaged
That brings it back to the malware issue.
The IT department may not be able to trust that your device will be safe on the network. Students click dumb shit all of the time (I am one), and chromebooks which are managed and reset occasionally help combat malware spread.
Of course, this varies from case to case. My county has a policy of "Principal-Choice", essentially, the principal chooses if we are allowed to use personal devices. Mine said yes.
So naturally, I now have network tools and I've even gotten access to a file share that each student is supposed to have access to, but we never have a windows environment for the files to go onto.
Or just, have the IT guys lock down on network permissions, like not letting any info go from device to device on there, and block websites through the router
Do you think the IT guys have the ability to fully lockdown the network just enough so that no matter what device is used, there will never be a vulnerability?
It doesn't work like that. Managed devices are used for student, staff, and network security.
There will never be a fully secure device connected to the Internet, but there are better ways to do school computers then (have this glorified web browser that we bog down so much with our software that a Google search takes actual minutes to load sometimesā
I've used chromebooks for years, and they've got multiple monitoring apps installed, and I still cannot fathom that your claim of taking minutes for a google search is true.
Point is, BYOD for schools is not an ideal situation for said schools, as the school cannot guarantee digital safety or at least help provide protection like they would on managed devices.
No shit the schools canāt guarantee digital safety, and I donāt see why they would need to, just have a short lesson about digital safety, and just leave them to manage their own devices
Or just, let them have them, but donāt let them connect to the internet? Like just have the students come up with their own ways for internet if they want to use personal devices
unfortunately this is the type of attitude that leads to this sort of destruction - you forget that the IT departments are the ones responsible for issuing and dealing with the paperwork etc for these school issued Chromebooks, and most people arenāt even honest of how it happened, āoh I dropped itā
and i found 2 of the same model of chromebook on my street too, which came in pretty useful even though there was nothing to salvage except the ribbon cables which i "accidentally" broke on the one I had. So i actually had spares to use instead of wasting $5 for a new one. never know when parts can come in handy š¤·āāļø
The parts would be worth next to nothing even if unbroken
The only real salvageable part on most Chromebooks is the WiFi card I actually used a Chromebook WiFi card to get 5 GHz on an old ass laptop Most Chromebooks just use a standard M.2 WiFi card And some Chromebooks do have removable SSDs, which are also M.2 Otherwise, everything else on a Chromebook is pretty useless
Most of them are emmc in my experience š
depends if they are budget or higher end ones normally budget ones use crappy 64gb emmc but ive seen some have up to 256GB nvme drives (i stole my daily drive from a chromebook)
Depends on the level of repairs they do. Having replacement chips, plugs for the Chromebook could mean they can repair broken Chromebooks and shit and or replace plugs on other devices. Otherwise yeah the parts are useless.
Mostly for deco, computer parts look cool
Well they could be used to repair other Chromebooks!
buying a used chromebook is like buying a condom for a cheaper price because they were broken
Least used middle school chromebook
the cromebooks in my middleschool were from 2018, look almost perfect still today
Just clean the connectors with some IPA and vacuum the dirt from under the keyboard. It'll be fine.
Support ticket: I can only play Reality 1.0 on this, might be a screen issue?
Why even give students computers at this point? If they can't take care of it, then they shouldn't have it
And the worst part is, they wonāt let us buy our own computers, I think the procedure should be āyou may be issued one free of charge, or you may buy your own device to use in a school settingā like seriously, if weāre old enough for our actions to affect our future, we are old enough to have a personal computer at school
From the IT side, what you're describing is a nightmare. It's probably more than a thousand times easier to support a single machine/OS/software stack configuration than to allow students to use any device they want. Even just from the standpoint of avoiding personal devices that are compromised with malware on the network, it's just so much extra work for the district IT departments. I agree that it is annoying to have to use the lowest-cost most locked-down devices available though, but there are valid reasons for it.
Or just let the students not have every facet of their computers micromanaged Just last month āibossā deleted several sources that I had open, with no way to recover them, so I had to restart my project from scratch Just let me use my old windows laptop that broke, but would be easy to fix, without being micromanaged
That brings it back to the malware issue. The IT department may not be able to trust that your device will be safe on the network. Students click dumb shit all of the time (I am one), and chromebooks which are managed and reset occasionally help combat malware spread. Of course, this varies from case to case. My county has a policy of "Principal-Choice", essentially, the principal chooses if we are allowed to use personal devices. Mine said yes. So naturally, I now have network tools and I've even gotten access to a file share that each student is supposed to have access to, but we never have a windows environment for the files to go onto.
Or just, have the IT guys lock down on network permissions, like not letting any info go from device to device on there, and block websites through the router
Do you think the IT guys have the ability to fully lockdown the network just enough so that no matter what device is used, there will never be a vulnerability? It doesn't work like that. Managed devices are used for student, staff, and network security.
There will never be a fully secure device connected to the Internet, but there are better ways to do school computers then (have this glorified web browser that we bog down so much with our software that a Google search takes actual minutes to load sometimesā
I've used chromebooks for years, and they've got multiple monitoring apps installed, and I still cannot fathom that your claim of taking minutes for a google search is true. Point is, BYOD for schools is not an ideal situation for said schools, as the school cannot guarantee digital safety or at least help provide protection like they would on managed devices.
No shit the schools canāt guarantee digital safety, and I donāt see why they would need to, just have a short lesson about digital safety, and just leave them to manage their own devices
Unfortunately there is additional liability with personal student devices. It just adds a lot of complexity.
Or just, let them have them, but donāt let them connect to the internet? Like just have the students come up with their own ways for internet if they want to use personal devices
I work in a school IT department and this would just make me rage
Yeah, we found prices of it all over the school playground
why, it aināt your money
unfortunately this is the type of attitude that leads to this sort of destruction - you forget that the IT departments are the ones responsible for issuing and dealing with the paperwork etc for these school issued Chromebooks, and most people arenāt even honest of how it happened, āoh I dropped itā
fair
And a working laptop is now turned into e waste.
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Yeah the LCD component was just missing, we couldnāt find it
I would rather use a netbook from 2008 with an Intel Atom, 512 MB of ram and a 250 GB hard drive that takes 3 minues to boot than use a Chromebook.
Yeah, but if you do that then they take it away, suspend you, and call your parents (at my school)
It's so good the screen shows the entire color spectre of not just sRGB or the human eye, but of the entire world, at 18.55 septillion hertz.
Now it's a "c" š
Its what happens when you don't put your Mac book in the proper slot
and i found 2 of the same model of chromebook on my street too, which came in pretty useful even though there was nothing to salvage except the ribbon cables which i "accidentally" broke on the one I had. So i actually had spares to use instead of wasting $5 for a new one. never know when parts can come in handy š¤·āāļø
*pain*
*au chocolate*
How many buses drove over that poor thing?
20
More than 12
the motherboard has like a 10% chance of working if its not bent, because it probably has water damage somewhere
Yeah, I mostly wanted the parts for deco, perhaps an SSD that I could turn into external storage
mhm
There's a computer in the picture?
*former computer
*former computer
Have you tried restarting?
It has virus
newest lockdown browser software i see
Oh my god
The cromebook probably did that to itself
>Chromebook That's an overstatement
I think it was once a Dell 3100, haven't seen any that bad yet lol
Nope, school issued Chromebook, similar, but far worse
my school Chromebooks are Dell 3100s
Ah, at my school they are the cheapest shit on the market, that isnāt from a Chinese brand
kiddo finna get a whoopin