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The Galaxy Chromebook 2. It is still extremely red.
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For a more reserved color scheme, here is a gray model.
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Things to note here: 1) the 360 hinge, 2) the giant new ventilation openings (last year’s model had heating problems) and 3) the USB-C port.
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This gives us a look from the other side, where there is another USB-C port, a headphone jack, volume rocker and microSD slot. This also looks like a lower trigger speaker on the left.
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Tent mode. It is a pity that this is just a 16: 9 screen when there is so much vertical frame.
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The back of the red model.
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CES 2021 is next week and the announcements are starting to happen. Last year, Samsung launched the Galaxy Chromebook, a $ 1,000 Chrome OS premium laptop that looked like a successor to the Google Pixelbook. Just like Google, after trying The sales from a $ 1,000 premium Chromebook, Samsung decided to tone down the premium-ness in subsequent versions, and today the “Galaxy Chromebook 2” is a cheaper continuation.
Last year’s Galaxy Chromebook featured a 13.3-inch 4K OLED screen that attracted headlines, but this year, Samsung cut and cut the spec sheet to come up with a lower price. Instead of a 4K OLED, we have a 1080p LCD. The laptop is slower, thicker and heavier than last year’s, with less storage, fewer cameras and less RAM. This whole cost cut has almost cut the price in half: it now starts at $ 549.
For $ 549 starting, you get a 13.3-inch 1920 × 1080 (16: 9) touchscreen LCD; an Intel Celeron 5205U at 1.9 GHz and 14 nm; 4 GB of LPDDR3 RAM; 64 GB of eMMC storage; and a 45.5Wh battery. For $ 699, there’s an upgraded model with an Intel Core i3-10110U, 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of storage.
The notebook still has an aluminum body and still comes in an extremely red or gray color. The laptop is now 13.9 mm thick instead of 9.9 mm last year. The weight rises from 2.29 pounds to 2.71 pounds. The keyboard is still backlit, there are still stereo speakers and you still get a 360 ° hinge, Wi-Fi 6, 2 USB-C ports and expandable MicroSD storage. Unfortunately, Samsung removed the fingerprint sensor.
You put a camera Where?
The Galaxy Chromebook 1’s tricks have also been cut. Last year, the laptop featured a strange second camera on the keyboard, not as a terribly placed nostril camera, but as a rear camera in tablet mode, allowing you to take pictures of the world with a giant 13.3-inch display. The laptop also no longer has a pen that can be stored. Last year, Samsung basically broke into the Galaxy Note assembly line and added an identical, storable S-Pen to the Chromebook 1. This year, there is only one non-transportable USI pen holder sold separately.
The old Chromebook 1 was famous for having a low battery life, probably thanks to the 4K OLED screen, so this year’s cost cut is also a return to battery life. There were also problems with overheating last year, and this model is not only thicker, but has some fleshy-looking air vents in the rear. So, hopefully, that has also been fixed. The laptop will be launched sometime in the first quarter of 2021.
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