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The Samsung Chromebook 3 may not be the most impressive Chrome OS laptop ever released, but today it’s certainly one of the cheapest models available with halfway decent specs.
Best Buy is advertising a Samsung Chromebook 3 with a Celeron N3060 dual-core processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, and an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display as a Black Friday special… but you don’t have to wait until November 24th to snag that price. The laptop is already on sale for $99.
Here are some of the day’s best deals.
Computers
- Samsung Chromebook 3 w/Celeron N3060/2GB/16GB for $99 – Best Buy
- HP ProBook x360 11.6″ Windows convertible w/Celeron N3450/4GB/64GB for $330 – Woot
- Microsoft Surface Pro w/Core M + Type Cover for $629 – Best Buy
- Apple iPad mini 4 w/128GB for $275 – Best Buy
- Pegatron Pegacloud barebones mini PC w/Core i7-6500U for $289 – NeweggFlash
Other stuff
- NVIDIA Shield TV media streamer w/remote & game controller for $170 – Amazon
- WD 3TB USB 3.0 portable hard drive for $90 – Best Buy
- SanDisk Ultra Plus 128GB microSDXC card for $30 – Best Buy
- UE Roll 2 portable Bluetooth speaker for $48 – Best Buy
- Refurb Amazon Tap portable Bluetooth speaker w/Alexa for $55 – Woot
- Name your price for $162 worth of strategy simulator games – Humble Bundle
You can find more bargains in our daily deals section.
Better Chromebook for slightly more money ($120 after $10 rebate card), but sale ends later today:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834854139&cm_re=dell_chromebook_11-_-34-854-139-_-Product
I’ve been using this CB since late 2014 and it’s been awesome. Makes for a great portable office machine. I’m currently using it as a media center PC hooked up to my 1080p TV for Netflix and video streaming.
How many of these cheap Chromebooks are fanless, nowadays? My daily driver is a ASUS C200, which I bought used (for $60). Although it’s a bit laggy at times and I wish it had more RAM, it’s the best 60 bucks I ever spent. What I really love is that it doesn’t have a fan and runs cool, silent, and seemingly forever.
Fanless CBs are fairly new (late 2015 and later). My Dell CB13 has a fan, but it’s very quiet and almost never runs (unless I’m streaming HD video with about 4 or more tabs open).
If you go fanless, you’re going to sacrifice some power for the lower wattage CPUs.
The Asus CBs are pretty solid entries as well.