I have a spare school computer that my sister had before she graduated. Now I’m in that school and I’m wondering if i can do anything with the spare computer. It’s pretty bad its a HP Chromebook 11 G4 EE 11.6" Intel Celeron N2840 4GB RAM 16GB

  • XeniaDweller@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I wonder, did you guys have to pay for it since she didn’t return it? Do you get a lock screen when you start it up? Chromebooks are managed by the school and you can’t do anything with it unless it’s been deprovisioned.

    Try this- start it up, then hold down esc-refresh-power. It’ll reboot into a splash screen. Press ctrl-d. It’ll restart again, hit spacebar. Then it will be reset.

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    1 year ago

    It will do one thing, and that is browse the internet with not too many tabs. It will play Youtube and Netflix. If you’ve followed advice in this thread and did the reset and you still hit “Enterprise Enrollment”, you could try calling up the school and asking them to deprovision it, its unlikely they want it back.

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    1 year ago

    I mean… it’s basically a $50 paperweight. If you only plan on using it for note taking, it’s good. I’d say convert it to a NAS, but I don’t think that using eMMC storage would be advisable for it.

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    1 year ago

    That is not a computer. You can run more things on an Android phone than you can on a Chromebook, it’s just a portable web browser with a keyboard

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    1 year ago

    Assuming that you own the Chromebook and that it is unlocked. You could attempt to install Linux and then run a Minecraft server

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    1 year ago

    Just because she graduated, doesn’t mean that Chromebook is now yours too keep. It’s still school property and very likely managed and locked down through an mdm. Return it.