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and this is Dan from the verge I'm here at CES 2017 I'm checking out Samsung's Chromebook plus and Chromebook pro they're pretty much the same looking computer this is the latest Chromebook from Samsung it was built in collaboration with Google and it features a couple of things that we've not seen on Chromebooks before for starters it's super thin it's just over half an inch thick it's an all-metal finish it's just under two and a half pounds so it's really light as well it's got a twelve and a half inch screen quad HD resolution it's full touch screen if you notice you can see you can flip it around to make it a tablet it's got a full 360 hinge now that's all kind of good and well but what really makes us different from other Chromebooks is the fact that's got built-in stylus so it's got support for writing on the screen you can take notes you can draw you can capture screenshots and no tane annotate Google's actually built some special technologies that uses the cloud to improve writing on the screen it can predict what you're trying to write to make the response better than before otherwise it's got a full keyboard a trackpad up to eight hours of battery life and it runs Chrome OS and has access to the Google Play Store so you've got tons of Android app so you can install on it you can use Google key you can use Evernote you can use other note-taking apps with the stylus so that this kind of device can flip between productivity and entertainment and back again really easily it's really google's answer to the iPad pro and Sam the Microsoft Surface pro but it's in a Chromebook which means it's a lot less expensive so this is about four hundred and forty nine dollars for this Chromebook plus Chromebook pro it's gonna be a little bit more expensive the only really difference between them is that the plus has an ARM processor and the pro has an Intel Core processor so if you need a little more power you'll want to go with the pro when that becomes available but the plus is going to be available next month starting at 449 bucks we'll have plenty more to say when we get it then