Samsung Chromebook Pro. Review on Samsung Chromebook

Great Laptop excellent design

I was using a windows laptop till about 6 months ago and got fed up with the slow & degrading performance of windows. Explored ChromeOs by dual booting my windows with Chromium OS, while it was without Android Apps and some other features, I was already in love with ChromeOS.

That's where I decided to get my Chromebook and what better than a Samsung Chromebook Pro.

Specs: Intel Core M3 6Y30, 4GB Ram, 64GB EMMC onboard storage, Micro-SD Card Port, 2 USB C ports, Headphone Port

Design: Its beautiful looking, Light and pretty sturdy despite it's very slim profile. The flip hinge is sturdy and comfortable to use in Tablet mode too

Screen: Fantastic screen with amazing colours and probably equal to the best screen on a laptop today. The 3:2 ratio is pretty nice and makes reading a website and other things pretty easy

Keyboard: I love the keyboard as the overall key press and feedback is great. Probably the only challenge is the small size of the backspace button, which causes a few errors. But I'm slowly getting used to it. The feel of the keyboard and play is just right and pretty comfortable to type on. Chrome even has the ability to customise some of the keys like CTRL, ALT, Backspace, Search, Caps, etc

Software: without Android apps ChromeOS is a little incomplete as most things don't work unless you are connected to the net. But with android apps I'm now able to do almost all my work.

Office Files can be opened on Google Suite Apps(Offline & Online Versions), Office Online or Office Android Apps(Works Offline too)

I can do basic Image editing using Chrome & Android Apps. Basic Video Editing using Cyberlink, Kinemaster and others.

While these are not good enough for high end professional editing, they are more than enough for personal and regular use.

ChromeOS is super fast. The OS boots up very fast, wakes up from Sleep mode in a jiffy and saves a whole lot of time even when it updates.(You don't need to literally leave it overnight while it updates or hope it doesn't start updating just before an important meeting)

Personalising the desktop would be a nice thing to be able to do.

Stylus: I bought the Samsung especially for the Stylus to be able to take notes which are stored on my drive instead of various sheets of paper or notebooks all over the place. It does it's job pretty well. Feel almost like writing on a large diary with barely any lag when writing. Lovely addition for a laptop light enough to feel like a large diary.

Android Apps: While these apps are great and add huge functionality and usability to Chrome, the apps still need to be refined to be able to function as well as they do on an Android Tablet. small issues like moving the cursor around or accessing SD card from all apps can create different experiences in different apps.

Battery: Coming from a mid-range windows laptop, the battery life is awesome. It gives me about 7 odd hours of general use. I think thats pretty good. In any case I always have access to a power point so not an issue for me.

Storage: The 64GB SSD coupled with a 128 GB Micro-sdcard is more than enough along with all the cloud storage one has. Accessing google drive and working off that is super easy and feels almost like a local drive when you use the "Files"App.

Connectivity: with only 2 USB C, Headphone and Micro-Sd options it was a challenge getting a properly working adaptor for HDMI & VGA out options. Be careful to buy only branded products with warranty as I first purchased a cheaper option that only worked for 5 mins and then would shut down. But now that I have the right multi Adaptor I have no connectivity issues and it's as good if not better than any other laptop.

Summary: I'm very happy with my purchase and am able to do everything I want to on this laptop and not missing my windows laptop at all