My new toy

[DonTom]

For another $20 you could have gotten an iPad A16 with 128GB of flash memory. $299 almost everywhere but Costco also gives you a 3 year warranty.

I still could and have both, but I have no experice with Apple anything, so I do not know if I should.

So far, the new toy has been fine after that one crash.

-Don- Douglas, AZ

 

[DonTom]

I was going to say you could factory reset to return it if that was what it came to. It sounds like that is what you ended up doing. The new sign in message is just because of erased cookies. I don't think that will affect your original problem them had. But other cookies might have been their problem. Not sure exactly. Either way, Good luck!

No, what I did was to do what they said caused the problem. I logged in with another account. I really do not understand how this works or even how they know. If the APPs are on the Chromebook, why do my logins go anywhere else?

But I had one more idea left if that did not work. And that would be like you said. I think I see a small reset hole on top of it, which I never tried to use. All I know for sure is that there is a small home on the top, as shown below:

 

[8Muddypaws]

That might be the microphone.

 

[DonTom]

That might be the microphone.

Yep, you're correct.

It helps to RTFM! Page 3 shows it as the mic.

But there is a reset, if I can get to "settings". It is called "Powerwash" and sets the computer like new.

BTW, I am now using the "new toy" to post this.

-Don- Douglas, AZ

 

[Seilerbird]

And that is why only 8% of iPhone/iPad users considered switching to Android in 2025. Once you buy Apple you never go back.

Speak for yourself Kimo--sabee. I use a Chromebook and my Apples can't compete with them.

 

[Mark_K5LXP]

If all one does is consume online content then any flavor of device checks the box. Where I part ways with the apple experience is reduced, or no option for some apps. Their hardware and OS isn't so much better to put up with their closed community and platform mentality. Throw in the price of admission and revolving door of hardware obsolescence and all you have is a spendy tech fashion accessory.

Mark B.
Albuquerque, NM

 

[DonTom]

If all one does is consume online content then any flavor of device checks the box. Where I part ways with the apple experience is reduced, or no option for some apps. Their hardware and OS isn't so much better to put up with their closed community and platform mentality. Throw in the price of admission and revolving door of hardware obsolescence and all you have is a spendy tech fashion accessory.

Mark B.
Albuquerque, NM

I have reasons to believe the Tesla App may have caused my new toy to crash. It has all types of bugs on a Chromebook (at least on some Chromebooks, according to the web), and at best, it works correctly around 25% of the time. And I have the latest Tesla update. So I just deleted the Tesla App on my new toy and put it back on my Smartphone. My Smartphone still has several GBs of unused storage after moving almost everything to the "new toy". Web says the Tesla App is not designed to run on Chromebooks, but it does work on some. Not mine.

-Don- Douglas, AZ

 

[Larry N.]

Their hardware and OS isn't so much better to put up with their closed community and platform mentality.

I certainly agree with this- So many things you can do on Android, PC, etc, such as a simple file copy to another device are, at best, an awkward procedure, to name one example.

However I will say that for a couple of apps I have, with no need for interaction with anything else, they are excellent, better than similar on some other devices, but these apps are specially designed for the iPad/iPhone and it was a while before others had these. Many aviation apps are available only for the iPad, too, starting from when the iPad was the only tablet out there.

But other than that specialization, they're awkward at best.