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The Galaxy Chromebook 2. It’s still very red.
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Here is a gray model for a more reserved color scheme.
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Things to note here: 1) the 360 hinge, 2) the new, humongous cooling openings (last year’s model had heat issues) and 3) the USB-C port.
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It gives us a look at the other side, where there is another USB-C port, a headphone jack, volume flip-flop and a microSD slot. It also looks like a bottom speaker on the left.
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Tent mode. It is a pity that it is only a 16: 9 screen if there is so much vertical edge.
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The back of the red model.
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CES 2021 is next week and announcements are starting to hit the thread. Last year, Samsung introduced the Galaxy Chromebook, a premium $ 1,000 Chrome OS laptop that felt like a successor to the Google Pixelbook. Just like Google, after the experience the sales of a premium $ 1,000 Chromebook, Samsung has decided to show the premium quality in subsequent versions, and the current ‘Galaxy Chromebook 2’ is a cheaper sequel.
Last year’s Galaxy Chromebook featured a striking 13.3-inch 4K OLED screen, but this year, Samsung hacked the spec sheet and hacked to get a lower price. Instead of a 4K OLED, we have a 1080p LCD. The laptop is slower, thicker and heavier than last year, with less storage, fewer cameras and less RAM. All of these savings have reduced the price by almost half, but it now starts at $ 549.
For the starting price of $ 549, you get a 13.3-inch 1920 × 1080 (16: 9) LCD touch screen; a 1.9 GHz, 14 nm, dual core Intel Celeron 5205U; 4 GB LPDDR3 RAM; 64 GB eMMC storage; and a 45.5Wh battery. For $ 699, there is an upgraded model with an Intel Core i3-10110U, 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage.
The laptop still has an aluminum housing and is still in a very red color or gray. The laptop is now 13.9 mm thick instead of 9.9 mm from last year. The weight rises from 2.29 pounds to 2.71 pounds. The keyboard is still lit, there are still stereo speakers, and you still get a 360 ° hinge, Wi-Fi 6, 2 USB-C ports, and an expandable MicroSD storage. Unfortunately, Samsung has removed the fingerprint sensor.
You put a camera where?
The gimmicks of the Galaxy Chromebook 1 have also been cut. Last year, the laptop had a strange second camera on the keyboard lid, not as a terribly placed nostril camera, but as a rear camera in tablet mode, enabling you to enter the world with a giant, 13.3-inch camera. seeker to take. The laptop also no longer has a storable stylus. Last year, Samsung basically did a raid on the Galaxy Note assembly line and added an identical, storable S-Pen to the Chromebook 1. This year, there is only a separate USI pen support that cannot be sold.
The old Chromebook 1 was notorious for having a bad battery life, probably thanks to the 4K OLED screen, so hopefully this year’s savings are also a return to a reasonable battery life. Last year, there were also problems with overheating, and this model is not only thicker, but has some greasy holes in the back. So hopefully that’s right too. The laptop will appear sometime in Q1 2021.
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