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    • can also use them as an alternative to Raspberry Pis
    • if you can work with tight limitations, you can go down to $30 or less
    • schools tend to be trying to get rid of palettes of the things because of Google’s policy of end-of-lifing the things after only a couple years
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        • a previous how-to (Reviving Chromebooks with Ubuntu) mentioned just talking to the IT contact for your local school
        • without going into a whole palette, search eBay for: chromebook lot of – people selling anything from lots of 4 to lots of 15, generally averaging $20 each (pretty much guaranteed to be expired, would check models against Chrultrabook for usability)