(lively music)
- What you are looking at right now is the hottest,
most beautiful laptop that I have held
in a very long time
but that does not mean that you should buy it.
This is the Galaxy Chromebook.
So the Galaxy Chromebook comes out some time
in the first quarter of this year
and it starts at $999 which is a lot of money
for a Chromebook
but before we get into that value proposition,
I just wanna take a little bit of time
to appreciate this amazing hardware.
It has a 13.3-inch 4K UHD AMOLED display
that starts with eight gigs of RAM
and 120 gigs of storage which is pretty good
for a Chromebook.
It should be good for about eight hours
of battery life and most importantly,
it has an Intel 10th Gen Core i5 processor.
This thing has more than enough processing power
to run Chrome OS.
Plus, I mean, just look at this thing.
This color that you're seeing here is called Fiesta Red
and it is very intense.
It also comes in a really boring gray color
if you're a really boring person.
Go for it if you want to.
There are bezels on the top and the sides
but they're super, super thin.
You can barely see them
and there is a webcam up there too
so good job on that.
The thing is under 10 millimeters thick
which is pretty incredible
and it's also a two-in-one
so it folds all the way around,
it's built out of aluminum,
it feels like really good build quality
except for a little bit of wobble on the screen.
That 999 that you're paying is for this level
of quality and hardware.
So let's go back to that screen for just a minute
because it really is the centerpiece of this laptop.
It's AMOLED and Samsung says
that it can reach HDR 400 but you should know
that you're not gonna get that everywhere
because a bunch of HDR content is locked
behind weird DRM and Chrome OS
has to get updated for it.
Whatever.
It looks really, really beautiful.
It is, of course, a touchscreen
and this think has a stylus.
It's inside a little garage
so you can pop it out
and so you can draw with it
and that works about as well as it does
in any other Chrome oS device
which is to say fine.
Really, my only complaint about this screen
is that it's 16 by nine
which I don't personally like
but it seems like that's what every laptop
is doing these days so whatever.
In terms of ports, it's pretty standard for Chromebooks.
There's two USB-C ports
and it does have a micro-SD card slot for expansion.
There's also an eight-megapixel camera on the deck
of the keyboard so you can use it as a camera
in tablet mode if you really want to.
Speaking of the deck,
we should talk about the keyboard that's on the deck.
This thing is only 10 millimeters thin
and so the keyboard doesn't have much room to move
so there's only, I don't know,
I think it's 1.2 millimeters of key travel
which sounds bad up it feels okay.
The important thing is that Samsung
is using traditional scissor switches
so it shouldn't run into the same problem
as the Macs and the butterfly keyboard
and when I was typing on it,
it didn't sound all that loud.
Again, the really only problem I noticed
was that it made the screen wobble a little bit.
The think about Chrome OS
is that 90% of people can do 90%
of what they need 90% of the time
but it's that other 10% that's the problem
and until Google can start filling in that gap,
this Galaxy Chromebook is gonna remain a niche product,
a very pretty niche but still a niche.
Hey, thank you so much for watching.
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