Chromebook 14 CX1400CMA Full HD Chromebook (Intel Celeron N4020, 4GB RAM, 64GB eMMC, Google Chrome OS)

I was a bit worried purchasing a recon laptop but needn’t have been! Its excellent! Great size screen, very easy to set up and no problems at all with it and saved myself a fair amount of money compared to buying a new one

Bought at £279 with a crystal clear 17" screen standard screen (not touch enabled), excellent battery life, top notch keyboard, quick start-up, speedy lightweight low power N6000 quad core Pentium Silver and not too weighty (2kg) for a laptop of this size this is an excellent low cost option for students and simple online tasks. For the more experienced users Linux can be added to allow free onboard software to run without the need for an online connection (Open Office, etc) using YouTube tutorials at no extra cost. Ideal for typing up assignments and papers, online research, YouTube, Prime Video, etc. The machine is supported under Chromebook updates scheme for years to come at present and so will be ideal for school, college and university usage for most students. Coupled with a cheap refurbished desktop Windows machine for more heavyweight use and you're set for almost any work and acedemic task at a fraction of the price of a high spec 17" Windows laptop only.

Needed a laptop quickly whilst mine was being repaired and saw this, saw the price and reviews and bought it. Now I’m very happy with the laptop in general, the screen is clear and it’s heavy but not so you can’t carry it comfortably in a laptop case/bag, the layout is simple but nice and the start up speed you can’t complain about at all. However … what is so annoying to me is you don’t know if you’ve got capitals unless you type and then it took me to google just to find out how to type in capitals without holding the capitals key down continuously. There is no back light on the keypad either which is annoying and would of been cheap enough to add that feature. Finally .. and I don’t understand why but the screen measured diagonally corner to corner of the screen display (measured how they do in store) it comes to 16.4” not 17” as advertised and this I’m completely flummoxed over as this is a top brand and no matter what tape measure I used or who measured it for me it still came to 16.4” (my son made it 16.5) but nonetheless it isn’t 17” close enough not to complain or return though. All in all I’m happy to use this as a comfortable spare that’s easy to navigate and has all the basic functionality you need.

I was initially hesitant to order this laptop as it wasn’t clear if it could work with a monitor or tv etc, I did buy a HDMI to usb c adaptor also and this work! It’s a great laptop for basic tasks you can download a fair few apps to including Microsoft teams etc. It was great that it was on prime day sale too so very good price for what it is.

At £305, I consider this a bargain providing you're happy to work in the Google ecosystem. With a 17" screen, it is a bit too heavy to work on your lap for extended periods and so this is best suited to sit on a desk. The screen is a TN panel, a very good one at that rendering in HD, but it can't compete with an lPS panel for clarity and viewing angles. It really is a laptop best suited to just getting the job done with minimum fuss. Although it only has 4gb of memory this is more than adequate for ChromeOS and it will also run Linux software successfully. Battery life is about 8 hours in the real world but as it's designed to sit on a desk you could just plug it in. All in all its a very good no frills laptop. Please note that this model is not a touch screen.