Samsung Chromebook review
Chromebook is Google’s version of a laptop, it’s running ChromeOS. It’s basic, great for cloud computing, and a free 100GB drive storage for the first two years. It has 16GB SSD, with a SD slot on the left side.
11 Inch laptop, a bright screen and great keyboard, but the touchpad takes some time getting familiar with it. It’s very thin, little more than half an inch. The Chromebook has a USB 2.0, USB 3.0, HDMI out, SD, audio out port, charging port, and if you bought the 3g laptop, you could put a sim in the back.
It’s very small, and weighing in under 3 pounds (2.4ish pounds.)
Start up is very fast, under 15 seconds. There is no sound, since it’s fanless, and it stays fairly cool. Battery life is 5 and a half to 6 hours. When you open the laptop, it turns on in under 10 seconds.
At $250, and all you do is use chrome browser, this is the perfect laptop.
Some cons:
I haven’t figured out a way to connect to a home server, it’s rather difficult to play music, since you can’t make your own playlist and play it whenever you want (Offline.) This is NOT for games, you’ll be lucky to find a game you can play on this, but maybe eventually Google will update this. I have no problems watching videos. One of the most annoying things is the SD card sticks out, it’s not flush with the device, if it was, then I would like it a lot more.
The laptop looks sleek, fancy, and perfect for traveling, besides the SD card sticking about ¼ inch out.
I would recommend this Samsung Chromebook to anyone who doesn’t play games, and enjoys browsing. You can’t install any plugins or programs on to the laptop, but that’s a good thing, no way to get viruses.
You can put Ubuntu on a SD card to boot, At a later date I will post a how to.
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