Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This chromebook was a big upgrade from my 6 year old chromebook but in one way it felt like taking a step back. My old chromebook for the same price point had a fan and never had overheating issues unless I really pushed it. This new style of chromebook however doesn't utilize fan cooling and claims that the new processor chips are created to not require anything beyond passive cooling by temporarily dropping the chip power if things get too hot. This might work for people simply using the device as a document tool, but the world has shifted to streaming entertainment media and that is where this chromebook falls very short. While the chromebook has a 1080p screen it can only stream 1080p content for maybe 30 minutes before the chip is forced to scale down in power to help cool off. Doing this demolishes the chromebooks ability to stream content, causes lots of hitching and lagging, and makes you either turn the content down BELOW 720p to cool off or just stop streaming content altogether. This is a big deal since a lot of people are going to want to stream at the resolution the screen is capable of. Other than that the HP 14 works great.