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crowmon arm may sound like a mouthful but the new Chromebook from google and samsung is powered by the same lightweight processor that runs your smartphone hi i'm seth rosenblatt frisina and today we're taking a quick tour of the latest chrome OS laptop from google and samsung that's so low priced it may be the first one that people actually buy Google is making this Chromebook the most accessible one yet starting with an aggressively affordable price at $249 that's 300 less than the samsung series 5 Chromebook and eighty dollars below the samsung series 3 chromebox the Chrome OS version of the mac mini it ships with the arm-based Exynos s dual chip a dual-core processor running at 1.7 gigahertz it can decode 1080p video at 60 frames per second it supports hdmi USB 2 and USB 3 it has a webcam uses hardware accelerated graphics and run software on its graphics hardware with the opencl interface it comes with an external rj45 dongle if you want to use ethernet an SD card slot and a duel jack for headphone and microphone it weighs just under 2.5 pounds making it the lightest chromebook yet it feels much more comfortable to carry around google says the battery will last you around six and a half hours although we found the 11.6 inch screen to suffer from glitter pixel for lack of a better term the trackpad is fairly responsive and supports some gestures like to finger tap to right-click and two-finger swipe to scroll some people might not like the fact that the caps lock key is a dedicated search button although you can remap it but there's no delete key either only backspace the Chromebooks run chrome OS the browser based operating system that updates every six weeks on Google's rapid release schedule new features in the version that ships with this Chromebook include deep connections to Google Play and 100 gigabytes of cloud storage in Google Drive for two years on top of the 16 gigs of local storage there are some limitations that restrict its usability Wi-Fi only for one but the fact that it's running Chrome OS locks you into either Google services or websites itunes won't work although there is google play music the chrome OS gets real sluggish with more than 20 or so tabs although it does sink instantly across your google power devices and Chrome browsers it's a solid laptop for at-home use and if you hate typing on a tablet it could be a great device for homework or mid-level productivity it's not for everybody though with the first look at Samsung and Google's latest laptop running Chrome OS i'm seth rosenblatt