Can't decide whether or not to pick up one of these. My local Staples has ex-display for £199. However, new machines are undoubtedly just round the corner such as the Acer R13 which is 1080p, IPS, touchscreen. But that will probably cost £300-£350. And then I might as well get an HP x360 i3...Alternative is Acer R11 with 4GB and 32GB for £229. Chrome OS + Android = touchscreen...right?!

just phoned they have them in stock for 250 quid

looking on site but no mention of this?

Just picked one of these up with an extra 10% off as its was a demo model, to came to £225.00..

Very happy

Anyone interested in the Toshiba Chromebook CB35-C3300 in the UK will be very disappointed. After contacting Toshiba UK I was told that there are no plans to release the CB35-C3300 in the UK. Toshiba UK are trying to obtain a list of people who are interested so that they can have this sent to the main office so to review their decision. If you want your name on this list phone Toshiba UK on 0333 222 7444 or perhaps buy a US model. :-(

£207.50 now.

It is a decent chip for most uses, yet playing skyrim at low on 768p cca 20fps is not the best experience you can have and for gaming I would advise to pay a little bit more.

But a Chromebook is not intended to play games and as such this chip is pretty decent.

Just a small correction, the N2840 is not the what you call a "defective" chip it was actually top of the line Atom based chip (I might be wrong on this but until m5 and m7 ones I haven't heard of better one which is atom based).

Also I wouldn't call the non-atom celeron's defective, it stings a bit when you hear what they are selling but they are pretty capable and it would be a greater shame and would increase prices overall to throw them away. I would rather compare it to digging out diamonds, you never know what you will get but depending on what you get the price varies.

At this scale it is simply impossible to get a perfect chip every time, (the picture I have in mind is billions of transistors of about 22nm size being arranged in a functional arrangement) and considering this it is frankly mind boggling that they can get a working chip at all, let alone a perfectly working one.

Mind you, a top of the line i7 also fails short of its utmost potential and has errors it is simply the fact there are less of them than in these chips (okay I believe they do have different designs) but I am not sure if the i75500U has a different basic hardware than say an i35010U.

lol because the buying public that's you and me aren't told that were really getting a chip that hasn't passed all the tests in the manufacturing stage and effectively been sold a defective chip although it does actually seem to perform quite well and has got a fair bit going for it am pleased to hear cant be too bad if it can run skyrim pretty impressive actually

well am pleased for you you found some use for it it sounds a decent chip by the looks of it and the notebook looks quite nice maybe theres a future for it the chromebook os and this N2840 and am pleased it gives a good performance

Picked mine up from Staples today. Truly amazing bit of kit. The screen is top quality, it boots in seconds....and does everything I need ......get one.

i have this one - recommend - big plus for me is - u can put ubuntu on it as a second OS, i use xfce4 then u will have Skype and other stuff.

You don't have a clue what you are talking about
http://ark.intel.com/products/82103/Intel-Celeron-Processor-N2840-1M-Cache-up-to-2_58-GHz

This is a dual core chip to start with...

You mixed up a couple of things, the process you are talking about is how they determine between i3 rebrand Celeron's (2905U is the one in the same series as this one) and they are basically i3's which didn't clock high enough while keeping the temperature down (or heated to much with hyperthreading), hence why you need fans for those chips. I would like to see you build transistors of size 22nm without having manufacturing faults...

This one is deliberately built to be weaker (it is a completely different architecture, so based on atom chips) which is intended to run cool and quiet (even fanless in this case) rather than giving you a super powerful chip.

And for your information an intel NUC with this very chip runs "the super complex" windows 10 without hiccup or any lag whatsoever. Can you game with it? No (although for example it runs skyrim just fine at low...).

And guess what when I am doing some kind of "work" I prefer using that quiet nuc than an i7 QM3610 and there is no noticeable difference in performance for 95% of the stuff I do with it...

There is nothing complex about windows btw, it is just written badly so uses too much resources as they built upon many things rather than started from scratch to write some things properly for the time it is used in... Windows is popular because it is simple and most people are used to it and because so many people use it there are by far the most applications available. Still people who know what they are doing often prefer Linux (or even Mac) because they can get more performance out of it.

So why is it lol?

Yeah Chromebook Celeron is okay, prefer my 4790k when at home though.

What is a Celeron? It started life as Pentium or multi core processor that failed the manufacturing process ie a core or more as many as three failed but didn't get disposed of as at least a core was working so it didn't need to be thrown away so it could be still be sold as a lesser processor.Chrome Os would work reasonably well with it as it is a relatively undemanding and much less sophisticated OS as compared to the likes of windows 8 or 10 .Am pleased that your chromebook works well for you so please don't take it personally as an insult just be more mature and mentally developed about that

Got one of these back in August my previous laptops include 15inch MacBook Pro Retina, XPS 17inch, MacBook Pro 17s etc.

If you spend most of your time in Chrome then the 4GB 1080p Toshiba is great and quarter of the price of a MacBook air or similar. Browser speeds feels similar/faster than my XPS.

The only day to day change I made was switching from Skype to hangouts. I still go back to my XPS17 and desktop PC for games, heavy photo work (DXO, Lightroom, Photoshop) video editing (Resolve, Premiere).

For less demanding photos Pixlr (web based photo editor from Autodesk) works well on the Chromebook.
Web based Word, Excel are available via Microsoft One Drive and you have Google drive/docs.
Music/video can be played off an SD card and the Chromebook works with my Fiio E18 USB DAC/headphone amp.

Google give 2 years of 100GB Google Drive space for free with a Chromebook, at the end of the 2 years if you don't subscribe you can still read your files but can't add more files if you use more than the standard free allocation.
https://www.google.co.uk/chrome/devices/goodies.html

They are, but combined State and Local Sales Tax is under 10% http://taxfoundation.org/article/state-and-local-sales-tax-rates-2014 - they still pay considerably less for most products.

What bizarre system that would be, prices would be changing on a day to day basis

Celeron Ha ha lol

Chrome is a memory hog but this is besides the point, I was talking about processors and what I had in mind is:
The full machine setup comparison rather than a fair processor to processor comparison, basically compare this machine to the recent Lenovo G50-70 (with haswell i3 4005u) deal for the same price which came with an i3 and a slow 1TB drive, I stand behind the claim that 6 months down the line this machine will be faster for most of the stuff a person buying such a machine will do.

I am sorry if it sounded wrong, but clearly I do agree that if you put an i3 in the same machine instead of N2840 it would be way faster. My whole argument was simply, for what you would use a chromebook N2840 is perfectly sufficient.

(These observations are based on a lenovo z50-70 I set up for a friend with Haswell i3 and 6 months down the line upgraded to an ssd because it slowed to a crawl, (back to snappy after ssd upgrade) and intel nuc with N2840...)

Also the N2840 in this Chromebook has the benefit of being fanless which might appeal to some people (including me).

I've just been defending the celeron too but that is going too far. It is an atom processor with celeron branding, there is no circumstance it is faster than an i3, and chrome is a memory hog whether on windows or chromeOS. The SSD does make it snappy but that's not down to the processor. If it were a core processor with celeron branding (as the new CB2 will be) then yes, it's close to an i3.

Well in 2 years who knows what will happen with storage prices...

But you can always use an SD card or a USB such as SanDisk Ultra fit, 128GB versions of both were sub 25£ via bespoke recently...

I've bought something similar for my son but there is only 1GB of usable space on there from new!!. Is it possible to remove stuff off it?

More than £200 for a Chromebook...

My daughter has had one of these since February. There are some links to reviews here http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/toshiba-chromebook-2-full-hd-13-3-ips-screen-cb30-b-104-intel-celeron-4gb-ram-16gb-2143241

The screen is really nice. For her it has been really good - quick boot up, no hassles with updates, a long battery life. It isn't powerful, but it is perfectly quick enough for the stuff that she wants to do with it (WWW browsing, homework, facebook, Youtube etc). One downside is that you can't just plug in a USB printer - but you can access printers using Google's cloudprint.

im waiting for the newer model aswell

but was really tempted by this

If i order the new model from Amazon US, it works out to £281.06 including shipping and import fees

That is all well and fine but even if you take the tax in account 1:1 is not a fair dollar to pound conversion... And depending on the state in the US you can get it at advertised prices... Fact is, we do pay more...

Anyone know when or if the new 2015 model will come to the UK?

US prices are typically advertised pre-tax, whereas we have it built into the price advertised to include VAT which usually explains much of difference when people rant about exchange rates.

FYI there is a newer model that has just been released, not yet available in the UK.

Model: CB35-C3300

More info: http://uk.engadget.com/2015/09/22/toshiba-new-chromebook-2/

GREAT SPEC, right size screen, etc but really need windows
100Gb of online storage .. the first hit is always free..

As far as I can tell, the new one is faster but has a fan so produces some noise compared to this one which is fanless.
Other difference is that the new one has a backlit keyboard which is allegedly very very good.

I do hate the fact we are almost always 3-6 months behind US releases of non smartphone stuff and the fact that on average UK branch companies are awful for CS compared to the US ones, also somehow a 400$ dell chromebook 13 costs 400£ in UK, some exchange rate that is...

for example Motorola US is offering one time free broken screen replacement, upgrade to a new phone rather than a repair and are just plain sensible, compared to UK Motorola which are good damn awful...

Sorry about the rant...

The power of HUKD?.... Update just now from Toshiba.... 'We may be releasing a new Chromebook in the 1st quarter of 2016. Keep an eye on: http://t.co/wRkEWbXIbb for news' .

I checked with Toshiba UK yesterday. They currently have 'no plans' to launch the new revamped version in the UK..... So I just might push the button on this deal. Thanks for posting!

Got JL to pricematch this two weeks ago. Got the refund the same day from JL that I submitted it. First time I had done a pricematch and will do it again as it was really easy. Love the Chromebook - wish I had gone down this road before. Mine has 10Gb left after downloading quite a few bits and bobs.

This is a great chromebook, has replaced my Ipad as my favorite gadget. Best screen on a chromebook, other than the ridiculously priced Pixel.
Only issue I have with mine is when I pair up my Bluetooth headphones seems to be a slight delay/syncing issue when watching videos but that might be me/the headphones.
Recommended :smile:

7% quidco too!