Ideal Solutions - 6 options...

There are FIVE options to consider:

1. 17" Chromebook - with beast body for easy assembly/modularity?

2. 15" Chromebook - with beast body for easy assembly/modularity?

3. Buying PCs off lease in bulk, Refurbishing PCs to chrome books and selling . mechanical drives okay.

4. Mini box computers

5. Raspberry PI something...

6. A whisker thin laptop with a mini attached via usb 3.0 (this is beast body reimagined as sleek with no innards and no battery for power supply)

the most interesting play here to me is the 17" units IMO, because there is literally NOTHING in the marketplace. Obviously the marketing folks know what they are doing BUT, IMO they are missing a great niche market. That said, the refurbing and mini boxes would likely be a safer play

The market is filled, but NONE of the new ones have the solid state drives...

When I type in "Buy Refurbed Chromebooks" only the big guys come up.

IMO if we/someone specialized in only 15" or 17" machines -- and used a universal testing system to rate load time, thus listing all the specs but nullifying the ambiguity, we might be able to make a killing.

If they 15" can be purchased for $10-30 each in batches of 10. Four could be setup on a bench, loaded tested and boxed in under an hour and sold for 180 to 200 each? That's an easy $600/hour if we have a market to sell to?? (and truthfully could likely do more at that same time than that?)

Not sure there is any place to find 17" used for low cost in bulk...

The mini boxes make a lot of sense too.

they'd need basic wifi and browsing capabilities an the ability to handle two monitors , external keyboard and a mouse.

I have one of the $30 or $40 raspberry pis . or is that the $10 one now?!? It was loaded with chromium. Fascinating..... I did not try a multi tab load on it. Im curious and corous to know if any way to get 2 monitors connected... and multi tab set speed...