Large Chromebook tablets

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My slate 21 pro android tablet is showing its age. It's a touchscreen all in one device that we have on the countertop in the kitchen and use for streaming, recipes, surveillance cams, and HE dashboards. But I need to replace it.

I'm looking for something that runs chromeOS and doesn't need a keyboard, preferably as large as this thing, and a recent enough version of chromeOS that can run Android apps. I guess a larger chromebook would work, as long as the screen flipped around so it could be used as a tablet.

Any suggestions?

I don't want windows, as I have a bunch of android apps that rely on, and I don't wanna maintain a windows pc that the kids will always mess with.

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I'm using this one since last March. Does everything you ask, but it may be too small.

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Yes, that's a little smaller than I wanted. Another 21" would be perfect, but I can't find anything that big. Thinking I might have to settle for a 15".

The lenovo yoga c630 looks pretty good.

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Have you checked with the chromebook /r/ on reddit?

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What about an android tablet instead of ChromeOS ?

Ok, it's from AE, and it's always a guess, but why not ?

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So that is interesting. But, the main problem with my current one is that it's basically abandoned, running 4.x. I think I will probably have the same issue with a no name one made of chinesium. What version of Android is even on it? Does it support the Play store? Many no name ones don't.

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You can also get an all in one windows 10 computer.

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No windows. I've been using various forms of Unix since 1991, and Mac since OSX came out. Windows makes me want to punch the screen.

I have one gaming pc running windows, and I hate it other than the gaming aspect.

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You can always buy a Windows box and load up your favorite version of Linux. I have an old all-in-one setting here with Linux Mint installed. Hell, if you're near the south part of middle-TN, drive by and I'll give you the beast (sans keyboard and mouse).

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I need to be able to run android apps, something which chrome OS can do. I know it's possible to run them in an emulator as well, but it is SLOW.

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Why not an Amazon Fire 10 HD? Still too small of a screen?

On boxing day you'll be able to pick one up really cheap. You'll have to install the Google Play Store on it but it seems the workarounds for that are well documented online.