Gadgetory

well hey guys this is david at the verge and we're here in West Manhattan where Google has taken over a warehouse and basically created its own crazy world where everyone uses Chromebooks and with that they've announced a new Chromebook this is the HP Chromebook 11 inch and it is basically a smaller version of some of the models you've seen before but it's designed to be the new accessible to everybody Chromebook it's 11 inches the most important thing is it's two hundred and seventy nine dollars and as with any 279 dollar laptop there's some compromises it's made out of plastic it's still pretty sturdy it's really light and thin but it's definitely not as high end is something like the Chromebook pixel in terms of hardware it's worth noting that this is a deeply low-end laptop it has Samsung sexy nose processor 2 gigs of ram 16 gigs of storage there's no touchscreen there's no backlit keyboard this is very much an entry-level laptop the biggest things here are the design it comes with its in white or black and it has these accents it comes in green blue red and yellow which are you know the Google colors the speakers are actually built into this place around the keyboard here which looks pretty nice but otherwise it's just black and white and actually think the black looks a little better personally it's a relatively basic laptop like any Chromebook it's just all the Chrome OS apps and a browser one really cool thing is it has a micro USB charger instead of having a you know proprietary charger it has just one and it comes with a long cable that you can use to charge your phone and your laptop which is kind of cool otherwise just USB ports it has these accent colors here on the bottom it has a full-size keyboard which they've just barely crammed into the chassis here and again for the most part it's really not overly exciting it's relatively well made but it doesn't feel as nice as a device like the pixel which we thought we might see a new model of today but again this is very much designed for everyone Google is talking about how the Samsung Chromebook is the best selling cheap laptop on Amazon and has been since the day it started and this is very much its successor this is designed to be what's next it's two hundred and seventy nine dollars and it's out today there's also an LTE version coming but HP and Google haven't announced the pricing for that for your 279 dollars you also get 100 gigs of google drive storage and the same free gogo wireless you've always gotten with Chromebooks it's a pretty good deal it's all as always not the best computer you could buy but it's certainly one of the cheapest and this is definitely an improvement over what Samsung made last year