Bought this Acer C720 Chromebook (CB) on 25 April 2015 from eBay for RM1, 200.00 if i remember correctly the price of it. Took almost 1 and half month for the CB to reach Malaysia from USA. My CB specification is 4GB ram , 16GB M.2 SSD 2242 3D NAND, Intel (R) Celeron(R) 2957U @ 1.4GHz dual core dual thread and 3920mAh battery. CB will last for almost 7 hours in single charge. CB boot up very fast, almost 5 seconds and can be used already. I love my CB so much. 16GB storage is enough since everything done in the cloud also i got the 100GB google cloud storage. Here some of the pictures of it.
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| CB with my beloved sister and brother in law in Sepang Airport |
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| CB with the use of Memory Card |
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| 1st Picture of my CB upon unboxing at brother house. |
31 Oct 2015 , bringing and using my CB extensively even in my father Hyudai Accent car when traveling to Johor Bahru from Kuala Lumpur attending a friend wedding. The 11 inch factor is so close to heart ,since it is small i ended up bring it to so many places. Jerai Mountain, Langkawi, Seremban, Cyberjaya, Pulau Pinang, Brunei and Pahang are thoose place.It really easy to bring this device around. Since it just weighting 1.3 kg putting it on my back pack, is almost feel non existence of the CB.
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| small in size, fast operation, sleek, simply loved it to the core |
Just a Chrome Broswer
People tend to overlook this device since we cant install Microsoft .exe file , Mac OS app, Linux app, and don't run Android app either. Means we cant have Microsoft Office application, torrent, Adobe software running on this germ. Previously I am a PC guy, i love to editing using Adobe software, but after i get my CB I'm not into that stuff afterwards. I stay focused on video consuming on Youtube, reading news on Google News, Facebook, understanding the Bursa Malaysia Market, learning about investment, taxation, personal finance, how to organizing daily chore, online shopping, bloging and etc apart from the usually crap I did earlier.
Comparing earlier days on only Chrome browser and now I would say it is advance in rapid scale. Youtube, Spotify, Youtube music, JS torrent client, Doc editing, Online meeting, reading ebook, even my office application all can now running in a browser only. Tho sometimes i do wish to run Adobe software or the Android app on my device but there was not until 2021, most new Chromebook now able to run android app as well as Linux software but not my CB.
The sad thing I ever did with this chromebook is I edit and design my mother book for her funeral ceremony. I really never thought that i need to do it, so soon that took place on April 2022. With the help of my niece i able to finish that in time. Just imagine, a chromebook, broswer , edit and design a book for a event and above all we pull that off nicely using this website Canva.com
AUE
My chromebook reach its Auto Update Expiration (AUE) on 2018 almost after five years in service. My OS running Chrome version 73 from 2018 till 2022. I was so stuck and I hardly uses my CB then.
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| 24 September 2018, I need to change it faulty screen after drop it from the height of 30 cm from the ground.Cost me RM150.00 fro a local shop in Bukit Mertajam,Pulau Pinang. |
The 2nd motorcycle accident on 25/07/2022
My life changing event is this accident. I becoming the tougher me i would say. Cost me alot to recover and started to changing the direction flowing to the positive energy around me.
My CB screen faulty crashed from the accident. Cost me RM199.67 to get a new panel from shopee site. I trying my luck to fix the screen myself this time since i am in a tighter budget and I am well aware the correct panel to buy I wanted to fix the faulty screen my self. Shopee Acer C720 LCD panel link
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| 11.6" Slim 30Pin LED left & Right screw hole |
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| a broken piece of art my beloved CB |
Fixing it
I able to fix the screen using the panel I bought from shopee. I am extremely grateful to the god since everything ended smothly. i do wish this CB will be with me the longer time ever.
Yes, this Flex changed my AUE CB. Throw a new soul to my old CB. Lunched official on July 2022 by Google. I followed this website to successfully install it on my CB.
1. Disable SPI write ptotection refer to https://mrchromebox.tech/
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25th July 2022 I meet an road accident. One of the item that damage is my Acer Chromebook (CB) C720-2844. On 2018 i drop this CB from my hotel room bed which caused the screen damage, it cost me RM
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