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The Galaxy Chromebook 2. It is nonetheless extraordinarily purple.
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For a extra reserved coloration scheme, this is a grey mannequin.
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Issues to pay attention to right here: 1) the 360 hinge, 2) the brand new, humongous cooling vents (final yr’s mannequin had warmth points) and three) the USB-C port.
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This provides us a take a look at the opposite facet, the place there may be one other USB-C port, a headphone jack, quantity rocker, and microSD slot. That additionally appears like a bottom-firing speaker on the left.
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Tent mode. It is sort of a disgrace that is solely a 16:9 show when there may be a lot vertical bezel.
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The again of the purple mannequin.
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CES 2021 is subsequent week, and bulletins are beginning to hit the wire. Final yr, Samsung launched the Galaxy Chromebook, a premium $1,000 Chrome OS laptop computer that felt like a successor to the Google Pixelbook. Identical to Google, after experiencing the gross sales of a premium $1,000 Chromebook, Samsung has determined to tone down the premium-ness in subsequent variations, and at the moment’s “Galaxy Chromebook 2,” is a less expensive follow-up.
Final yr’s Galaxy Chromebook featured a headline-grabbing 13.3-inch 4K OLED show, however this yr, Samsung has hacked and slashed on the spec sheet to get right down to a cheaper price. As a substitute of a 4K OLED, we have got a 1080p LCD. The laptop computer is slower, thicker, and heavier than final yr’s, with much less storage, fewer cameras, and fewer RAM. All this cost-cutting has practically lower the value in half, although: it now begins at $549.
For the beginning $549, you get a 13.3-inch 1920×1080 (16:9) LCD touchscreen; a 1.9GHz, 14nm, dual-core Intel Celeron 5205U; 4GB of LPDDR3 RAM; 64GB of eMMC storage; and a forty five.5Wh battery. For $699, there may be an upgraded mannequin with an Intel Core i3-10110U, 8GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage.
The laptop computer nonetheless has an aluminum physique and nonetheless is available in both an especially purple coloration or grey. The laptop computer is now 13.9mm thick as a substitute of final yr’s 9.9mm. The load goes up from 2.29 kilos to 2.71 kilos. The keyboard continues to be backlit, there are nonetheless stereo audio system, and you continue to get a 360° hinge, Wi-Fi 6, 2 USB-C ports, and expandable MicroSD storage. Sadly, Samsung eliminated the fingerprint sensor.
You place a digicam the place?
The Galaxy Chromebook 1’s gimmicks have been lower, too. Final yr, the laptop computer featured an odd second digicam on the keyboard deck, not as a terribly placed nostril cam however as a rear-facing digicam in pill mode, permitting you to take footage of the world with an enormous, 13.3-inch viewfinder. The laptop computer additionally not has a stowable stylus. Final yr, Samsung principally raided the Galaxy Observe meeting line and added an similar, stowable S-Pen to the Chromebook 1. This yr, there may be solely sold-separate, unstowable USI pen assist.
The outdated Chromebook 1 was infamous for having a poor battery life, in all probability because of the 4K OLED show, so this yr’s cost-cutting is hopefully additionally a return to cheap battery life. There have been additionally issues final yr with overheating, and this mannequin shouldn’t be solely thicker however has some beefy-looking vents on the again. So hopefully, that is fastened, too. The laptop computer comes out someday in Q1 2021.
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