I paid $800 for a barley-used one off Craigslist. True, it lacked the Android features (which even the 2015 model might have had? Certainly the successor Pixelbook did), but it was perfectly serviceable for my uses with crouton on it. And when it eventually went out of support, I removed the write-protect screw and loaded a standard BIOS onto it so that I could then install Linux Mint. It was a capable machine for several more years, marred primarily by that poor battery life.
I got one in 2018 for $200 and it was okay as a netflix and Youtube machine, and nothing more. The Linux features were harder to activate and use than just buying a used Thinkpad for also $200, with a way better processor and twice as much memory, so I eventually did that to replace it and should have done that first. It aged like raw meat for being a "premium" product.
Mine in particular died a slow and painful death. The thermal paste had aged out, and the fan died, though was cheap and easy to replace, but even after, it still was nonfunctional, as it would die after being on for just a few minutes. Because it was running Linux with weird userland stuff like Crouton, it was devilishly hard to debug. I also just do not know how to debug Linux nearly as well as I understand Windows "internals".
It's too bad because it was a pretty laptop with a very nice screen.
