# Dell 3100 Chromebook is an inexpensive and useful machine (2024-09-04)

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**Created:** [September 4, 2024, 7:00am UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/dell-3100-chromebook-is-an-inexpensive-and-useful-machine-2024-09-04/198 "2024-09-04T07:00:00Z")\
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Pupils in San Jose Unified School district are given Chromebooks – Dell 3100. This turns out to be one inexpensive, fanless, sturdy (rubberized to an extent) machine with ChromeOS.

While under-powered and constrained from operating system perspective, one can SSH into a powerful host and do whatever their SSH host allows them to do. (We happened to love [SDF.org](http://SDF.org) and use it for all sort of activities such as NNTP/Usenet, mail, gopher, chat, even some web browsing in text mode).

But the Chromebook itself (Dell 3100) is a tad bit under powered. It has `Intel(R) Celeron(R) N4000 CPU @ 1.10GHz (2 threads, 2.60GHz)`

 ![image](https://pluralist.net/uploads/default/original/1X/0c9caf5ddcd97481e5385e44d74e3f1e0a7c3dfb.png)