Why is the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 Unavailable Anywhere (US)?

[u/Jaytee3312]

After watching the glowing reviews over on Chrome Unboxed, I was curious about trying it -- buuuut to my surprise it's "no longer available"

Is it simply out of stock or did Lenovo give up on it already?

[u/oriolorrick]

I was literally at Best Buy yesterday and there were like 12 sitting on the shelf

[u/Corbin_Dallas550]

I like those guys, but they are giving it too much credit. I had it for a week and took it back because it was not that dynamically better than a i3 Chromebook besides better battery time (but the screen is great for 4k)

Look at my recent post for my review, but for $750 I expected a lot more out of the chip which often stumbled and couldn't handle a lot

I also believe they made a limited batch to start to see the sales number

[u/shabba2]

It's just sold out at Lenovo. I bought mine from Bestbuy and had no issues at all. Perhaps stock is out there as well? It's proving to be very popular and has been widely acclaimed so I imagine everyone wants one now.

[u/Jaytee3312 → u/shabba2]

Yeah maybe they weren't anticipating its popularity.

[u/shabba2 → u/Jaytee3312]

I know I was shocked when I saw it out of stock at Lenovo which is why I bought it from Best buy. And that's what I thought too. It's been praised as the next Pixelbook and that's huge.

[u/bluen0te → u/shabba2]

It's a worthy successor and pretty damn close to the pixel book. Having owned both the i7 Pixelbook and the i7 Pixelbook go, I give them the edge in terms of overall experience.

[u/TargetOk4032 → u/shabba2]

Have you ordered on US Lenovo before? I ordered the Chromebook 14 yesterday before it went out of stock again. However, I noticed that there is a CO retail delivery fee even though I don't live in Colorado. Does Lenovo charges this fee to everyone?

[u/shabba2 → u/TargetOk4032]

Not in several years. I'm located in the Philippines as of June so I have to have my stuff sent to my old US address and then forwarded here.

[u/BigGrizzwald]

It's sold out it's literally the highest selling Chromebook on the market right now.

[u/Romano1404 → u/BigGrizzwald]

I doubt it. It's just the only widely available premium Chromebook thus everyone who wants a premium Chromebook (literally nobody..) tries to get one. I was lucky to get mine in Germany and probably a dozen other lucky people before it sold out.

[u/grooves12 → u/Romano1404]

It's not a large market, but there is pent up demand for people interested in premium Chromebooks. There hasn't been anything good on the market for nearly 2 years.

[u/Boysen_berry42]

From what I’ve seen, Lenovo didn’t make a ton of these to begin with. A lot of people said Best Buy had stock for a bit, but they went quick after the reviews. Lenovo probably underestimated how popular it would be, so now it looks sold out almost everywhere.

[u/himmelende]

Same here for the German Lenovo store. And it is not listed as available at any other retailer either. 🫠

[u/Romano1404 → u/himmelende]

I remember when it became available in the German Lenovo store last month it was immediately listed as "low stock" which insinuates they only had a handful devices in the first place.

Thankfully I got mine now because I waited 5 months (!) for the Lenovo Duet 11 to become available again, I hope for you it won't be the same with the Chromebook Plus 14 this time.

[u/Maultaschenman → u/Romano1404]

Random question, does the bottom panel creak/squeak when slight pressure is applied for you too?

[u/Romano1404 → u/Maultaschenman]

yes, occasionally. Same for the display panel

[u/jader242 → u/Romano1404]

Jeez that’s not great to hear about a $750 device

[u/Romano1404 → u/jader242]

the built quality is about on par with similar priced Windows laptops.

[u/shellybelly787]

When do you all think there will be more stock?? 

[u/steelbreeze9]

I waited too long and now I'm on the same boat as you. 

Google all but announced that it's leaving the Android tablet market again, so I decided to ditch my Pixel Tablet for the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 and it's not available at Best Buy.

I hope that it's restocked soon, as I don't want to get (and won't) an open box model.

[u/Dexcom55]

I had one took it back, Bluetooth headphones sound was off, did not work right

[u/steelbreeze9]

On the Lenovo page it stays that the Chromebook Plus 14 is "no longer available", but when I close the pop up (the one you screenshot posted), it says "available soon". 

So hopefully it's a restocking issue. There's a new model coming w/out a touch screen, 12GB of RAM and no fingerprint reader, but I'm willing to pay for the latter and extra RAM.

[u/Asleep_Mortgage_7711]

I ordered 35 of them for work in mid July with an ETA of 4 weeks from cdwg. I got 3 of them but still waiting for the rest.

[u/GBondlle → u/Asleep_Mortgage_7711]

I hope you won't be disapointed, I am more and more with mine. It is almost unusable in a work environment with an external screen and Teams. During Teams call it is "crashing" with black screens for a few seconds every 5/10mn and the sent resolution is very low most of the time. I miss my Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus i5.

[u/Asleep_Mortgage_7711 → u/GBondlle]

Luckily we don’t use teams or external screen use. Teacher laptops are for portable use only. They have desktops with large screens hooked up to large displays in the classroom.