Samsung XE500C21 Chromebook Series 5 3G

I’m not really a laptop kind of person at all. I like to sit at my desk for email, word processing, bookkeeping, blogging, website updates and (ahem) Facebook. And so on. However, I was sent - free - a Samsung Chromebook as part of a survey. In return, I had to agree to fill in three online questionnaires over a period of six months. Initial setup The Chromebook arrived, looking slim and sleek (albeit perhaps a little plasticky with the clinical white outside) and my technically-minded son set it up in just a few minutes. It was quite intuitive, he told me. There were instructions which I ... more

The Samsung Series 5 Chromebook almost has become my new favorite laptop,which has a rugged solid-state interior and smooth, round corners.Not only has Samsung thrown away the hard drive, but also it has thrown away Windows as well.Maybe that is trend of the future of laptops, where so-called cloud storage and instant-on performance are becoming normal.It is so hard to give up my hard drive, my apps and all the other stuff which I was dragging around with me at first.But once I tried to use this Chromebook for one week,all my worries went away. It feels like a heavy burden for my old laptop ... more

The laptop only takes 10 seconds to boot and to log in, the speed of the laptop is amazing also it has a slick and amazing design. The laptop is showing a new laptop era and could be beat many of the leading laptop on the market. The ChromeBook does not use windows OS, but uses it's own Chrome. This has it's disadvantages and advantages, the new OS system looks just like the Chrome browser, too me it does not feel nice and would prefer to use Windows OS. But it is nice to see Google trying there own software. The memory of this laptop is also amazing, is has a 16GB SSD memory and an I7 Intel ... more