I just wanted to post a quick impressions of the Lenovo N22, there wasn’t really any proper reviews out there when I searched for them. I picked this up from amazon.co.uk for ~ 120€ – which is much cheaper than any other Chromebook available where I live (it’s more expensive now). For example the Acer Chromebook 14 would cost me 370€ – 400€

Specs – N3060 Celeron, 2GB ram and 32 GB eMC. I think there are 4gb models for sale as well, but not in amazon.co.uk. Some sites list this having n3050, but my model definitely has the n3060.

Body – This is a “education” type of device, so it’s bit more rugged than your standard Chromebook – drop resistant from 70cm and spill resistant as well. It’s quite light, 1.22 kg. I think it looks nice in the absolute low-end of laptops category 🙂

Display – Quite poor 1366×768 display to be honest, but still useable. It’s the same level as other cheap laptops. Brightness level is ok.

Ports – Two USB 3, HDMI, headphone jack, SD Card slot (where the SD card unfortunately sticks out)

Keyboard and trackpad – I was pleasantly surprised of these, I’ve used much more expensive laptops with worse trackpads and keyboards. Trackpad especially is very good for the price level, better than in my >1000€ gaming laptop bought couple of years ago.

Performance in ChromeOS – Seems ok for my use, ~5-7 tabs open on Chrome. 8480 Octane score. I’m comparing this to Thinkpad X240 with proper i3 and don’t see much difference. Plugging in a USB3 Hard drive seems to slow the system down, but there might be something wrong with the HD.

Crouton – I tried with Trusty and XFCE, seems to be working alright. Only immediate issue was trackpad which required a quick fix. Installed couple of applications Steam, Mendeley, Firefox, Torbrowser, VLC. Performance is good

One issue that I haven’t been able to solve: I seem to have tearing in Crouton VLC and SMPlayer, I’ve tried to turn off composition but that didn’t have any effect. VLC in ChromeOS side works without tearing, but is quite slow when scanning files.

All in all, I recommend this Chromebook if you want to try out ChromeOS cheaply, but people in US most likely have better options in <200 USD range. Performance and quality has been surprisingly good.

Any on else in the sub have this?