Well, my experience is that in practice, older refurb high-end Chromebooks can be had song. Chromebooks expire, losing security updates, and buying an older mo

Well, my experience is that in practice, older refurb high-end Chromebooks can be had song. Chromebooks expire, losing security updates, and buying an older model is almost always a bad deal. Figuring out expiration dates is a PITA. In practice, COVID19 shortages aside, they typically carry very low resale value. If you're running Linux, you don't care. A rather premium model can be had for under $200 easily. That's cheap enough that you can do things with it that you'd never do with a real laptop.