- 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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at everything we can possibly think of

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