Best value is always an ebay Thinkpad. But if you insist on buying new, the Lenovo Ideapad 3 Chromebook is $100 and often discounted down to $80. It's a 4GB/64G

Best value is always an ebay Thinkpad. But if you insist on buying new, the Lenovo Ideapad 3 Chromebook is $100 and often discounted down to $80. It's a 4GB/64GB eMMC/Gemini Lake n4020 with a TN screen. But it does have a good keyboard relative to its price range, and feels pretty solid. Battery life is about 8 to 10 hours. The codename for this Chromebook is "Lick" and MrChromebox has alternative firmware which will allow Linux to be installed. I haven't done it on mine yet, but the instructions aren't difficult. I've read that most things on Linux will work automatically but there's a problem with sound out-of-the-box. There's a script on Github that supposedly fixes that. https://mrchromebox.tech/ https://mrchromebox.tech/ https://github.com/WeirdTreeThing/chromebook-linux-audio https://github.com/WeirdTreeThing/chromebook-linux-audio