New Chromebook

Today, I upgraded my three-year-old Acer Chromebook 514 with a new model. The original served me incredibly well, but i got annoyed with serious performance issues, like login taking ages - just to enter the PIN. That with some other symptoms to me looked like not enough memory (4GB). One other thing that I regretted immediately after buying it about 3 years ago was the lack of a keyboard light.


So I got myself a newer model with 8GB and a backlit keyboard.

Installation was smooth and easy - switch it on, scan the QR code with your Android phone and it will setup everything from there. It couldn’t be more easy.

Especially when compared to setting up a brand new Windows 11 (which I did a week before for my mother) - but that’s another story which I will probably NOT write ;)

All apps (incl Android apps) are being re-installed on the new Chromebook as well. Chrome settings are synched as usual. Really nice.

Login, opening apps - even android apps - is lightning fast as expected.

Only need to clone/re-create my ssh keys - but more on that later.

So, trying it out now with writing a blog post from the couch….