Samsung Chromebook (Wi-Fi, 11.6-Inch) Reviews
Received the unit yesterday afternoon (11/21). Packaged properly and no transit damage. The start up process was exactly what the prior reviews have said: open the top, self activates and recognizes my home network within 10 seconds. It did an approx 5 minute download for updates, and I was good to go. Screen is great, keyboard layout great as well. I also like the lower case font keyboard, just a personal thing. Build quality appears above average for a unit the price as this one. No creaky screen or flexing as of yet, as I have come to hear in other reviews.The websites come up fast and flawless. As an enterprise PC user due to work purposes (corporate pc's with Dell laptops), it is somewhat refreshing to use the Google documents section. I understand there is 100gb for 2 years on Google drive as well as "coupons" for 12 free wi-fi events for flying. I have not seen that information in the packaging, so I am "assuming" at this point it is electronically recorded. I will investigate that and report back accordingly. Again, a happy customer so far. I will write back after a few days with additional impressions, but so far, this fills a void between a "full size" lap top, and a tablet (of which I have 2). And by the way, you can't beat the price. Stay tuned...
Update 11/26:
Activated the 100g Google Drive storage. The gogo airline wifi is activated when you log on whilst onboard the flight, the Chromebook so far is exceeding expectations. Well worth the price, considering all the "extras" that are included (cloud storage and in flight wifi). If used as a second computing device, you absolutely cannot go wrong!
I am absolutely in LOVE with this item. When I had a laptop I felt like I did not use most of the features as most of what I tend to do I do on websites with a few documents here or there. I had a netbook but it was slower than slow. I got rid of my laptop and netbook for a Kindle Fire HD with Blue Tooth keyboard but the keyboard was always too glitchy and trying to do any typing of substance even with that keyboard was too tedious for me. This Chromebook is the perfect thing for someone looking for a smallish laptop to do emails, facebook, blogs, documents, you tube, web browsing and that sort of thing on. It is light weight, the keyboard is awesome with each key spaced out nicely, and the best part is that it has no fan so it is quiet and does not get your lap warm. I can type just as fast on this as any regular keyboard, which is fast! It is super simple to set up and get started. I love that for each of my gmail accounts I can have a separate user on this device so everything is customized differently. I could not be happier with this and I am so glad I bought it.
It's small, light, and starts up fast. We are already embedded in using Google products. So, this is great for all those Google products. The key thing is the keyboard. Unlike a tablet, you can use this keyboard like a completely normal one. It is completely productive.
We have had no problem with speed. It has kept up on everything we've tried. Well, when I've played music from Google Play it plays very well. However, it really hurt the multitasking. The speakers are pretty good for a computer this small, but they certainly aren't great for listening to good music. So, the playing from Google Play really isn't an issue.
This is almost a fully functional small computer. However, you have to be able to work in a completely Web based world. If that world is Google oriented, so much the better. Still, if you can get to it and run it in Chrome, you can run it. It isn't limited to just Google products.
We love it!
Highly recommended.
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