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10-08-2013, 01:00 PM
After releasing the “prototype (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2048605/haswell-chromebooks-promise-the-all-day-battery-life-of-old.html)” Chromebook Pixel earlier this year, Google has gone the opposite way for the mass market with the lightweight, low-powered Chromebook 11 from HP.
Google and HP collaborated on the design of the new Chromebook, which-ships this week for $279 (http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/hp-chromebook-11/). It is essentially a successor to last year’s $250 Chromebook from Samsung (https://www.google.com/intl/en_us/chrome/devices/samsung-chromebook.html#specs), with the same ARM-based Exynos 5250 processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage and two USB ports. Both the old and new laptops have 11-inch displays, each with a resolution of 1366 by 768 pixels.
The improvements in the Chromebook 11 are all about design and fine-tuning. Google says (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-new-hp-chromebook-made-with-google.html) this new Chromebook has a sturdier magnesium frame, so it won’t flex when you hold it up from one corner, and it manages to be a tenth of a pound lighter than the Samsung Chromebook, weighing in at just 2.3 pounds.
http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/10/chromebook11-100057130-large.jpg (http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/10/chromebook11-100057130-orig.jpg)The new Chromebook 11 comes in black or white.Although the screen resolution is unchanged, the display has 176-degree viewing angles. Google also claims that the Chromebook’s speakers are “finely tuned,” and placed under the keyboard so the sound projects toward the user.
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Google and HP collaborated on the design of the new Chromebook, which-ships this week for $279 (http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/hp-chromebook-11/). It is essentially a successor to last year’s $250 Chromebook from Samsung (https://www.google.com/intl/en_us/chrome/devices/samsung-chromebook.html#specs), with the same ARM-based Exynos 5250 processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage and two USB ports. Both the old and new laptops have 11-inch displays, each with a resolution of 1366 by 768 pixels.
The improvements in the Chromebook 11 are all about design and fine-tuning. Google says (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-new-hp-chromebook-made-with-google.html) this new Chromebook has a sturdier magnesium frame, so it won’t flex when you hold it up from one corner, and it manages to be a tenth of a pound lighter than the Samsung Chromebook, weighing in at just 2.3 pounds.
http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/10/chromebook11-100057130-large.jpg (http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/10/chromebook11-100057130-orig.jpg)The new Chromebook 11 comes in black or white.Although the screen resolution is unchanged, the display has 176-degree viewing angles. Google also claims that the Chromebook’s speakers are “finely tuned,” and placed under the keyboard so the sound projects toward the user.
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