Product Description
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Introducing the New Chromebook
Chromeboxes are fast to use, and don't slow down over time. They have layers of security built-in, so don't need to buy or install antivirus software. They come with apps for all your everyday needs, and keep your files safely backed up on the cloud. And with free, automatic updates, your Chromebox keeps getting better and better.
Automatic updates
Chromeboxes automatically update themselves: all of your apps stay up-to-date,and you get the latest version of the operating system without having to think about it.
Get started without the setup
You'll never see a blue screen. Chromeboxes are built to get technology out of the way. Say goodbye to installing patches, as well.
Built-In Virus Protection
Your Chromebox has virus protection is built-in, with multiple layers of security like sandboxing, data encryption and verified boot.
Get Going - in 1 Second
Get quickly to the things you love on a Chromebox. Boot up in seconds, resume instantly and load web pages blazingly fast. Access all your favorite apps in one click with the app launcher. Unlike traditional computers, your Chromebox doesn't slow down over time.
Fast Booting
The Chromebox boots up in just 7 seconds.
Fast Start
It wakes from sleep in 1 second, simply press the button and you're ready to go!
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Be More Productive
Now you can multitask with ease and get even more done. A powerful Intel® Sandy Bridge Dual Core processor and 4 GB RAM* ensure you can simultaneously open twice as many browser windows as Intel® Atom™ based Chromeboxes. * Factory option
Dual Core Processor
You can enjoy faster web browsing, office tasks and music or video chat without any waiting:
16GB SSD
Get the information you need – when you need it! A Solid State Drive (SSD) provides signficantly faster start up and data access times compared to a hard drive.
Do Everyday Things. Do Amazing Things
Go straight online to creating, sharing and enjoying. Edit photos, listen to music and watch high-definition video. Collaborate on documents in real-time and chat face-to-face.
Collaborate on Documents
Create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and drawings with apps like Google Docs, Zoho and SlideRocket. With productivity apps, you can collaborate in real-time with others, access your documents from any computer, and have your files backed up automatically. Access other everyday files using the built-in PDF and document viewer.
Sync Your Stuff
Files, bookmarks, and apps that you change on your Chromebox instantly update on your other devices running the Chrome browser.
Full-Sized Keyboard Designed for Chrome (Optional)
The keyboard is optimized for Chrome with a dedicated search key, a row of web-enabled keys, and a comfortable, full-size layout that doesn't cramp your fingers, so you can get more done and make fewer errors.
Ports Information
*Manufacturer Warranty Information: XE300M22-B01US - Parts: 12 months, Labor: 12 months
(see larger image).
Introducing the New Chromebook
Chromeboxes are fast to use, and don't slow down over time. They have layers of security built-in, so don't need to buy or install antivirus software. They come with apps for all your everyday needs, and keep your files safely backed up on the cloud. And with free, automatic updates, your Chromebox keeps getting better and better.
Automatic updates
Chromeboxes automatically update themselves: all of your apps stay up-to-date,and you get the latest version of the operating system without having to think about it.
Get started without the setup
You'll never see a blue screen. Chromeboxes are built to get technology out of the way. Say goodbye to installing patches, as well.
Built-In Virus Protection
Your Chromebox has virus protection is built-in, with multiple layers of security like sandboxing, data encryption and verified boot.
Get Going - in 1 Second
Get quickly to the things you love on a Chromebox. Boot up in seconds, resume instantly and load web pages blazingly fast. Access all your favorite apps in one click with the app launcher. Unlike traditional computers, your Chromebox doesn't slow down over time.
Fast Booting
The Chromebox boots up in just 7 seconds.
Fast Start
It wakes from sleep in 1 second, simply press the button and you're ready to go!
(see larger image).
Be More Productive
Now you can multitask with ease and get even more done. A powerful Intel® Sandy Bridge Dual Core processor and 4 GB RAM* ensure you can simultaneously open twice as many browser windows as Intel® Atom™ based Chromeboxes. * Factory option
Dual Core Processor
You can enjoy faster web browsing, office tasks and music or video chat without any waiting:
16GB SSD
Get the information you need – when you need it! A Solid State Drive (SSD) provides signficantly faster start up and data access times compared to a hard drive.
Do Everyday Things. Do Amazing Things
Go straight online to creating, sharing and enjoying. Edit photos, listen to music and watch high-definition video. Collaborate on documents in real-time and chat face-to-face.
Collaborate on Documents
Create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and drawings with apps like Google Docs, Zoho and SlideRocket. With productivity apps, you can collaborate in real-time with others, access your documents from any computer, and have your files backed up automatically. Access other everyday files using the built-in PDF and document viewer.
Sync Your Stuff
Files, bookmarks, and apps that you change on your Chromebox instantly update on your other devices running the Chrome browser.
Full-Sized Keyboard Designed for Chrome (Optional)
The keyboard is optimized for Chrome with a dedicated search key, a row of web-enabled keys, and a comfortable, full-size layout that doesn't cramp your fingers, so you can get more done and make fewer errors.
Ports Information
*Manufacturer Warranty Information: XE300M22-B01US - Parts: 12 months, Labor: 12 months
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Product Details
- Brand: Samsung
- Model: XE300M22-B01US
- Dimensions: 8.10" h x 8.10" w x 1.57" l, 1.80 pounds
- CPU: Celeron B840 1.9 GHz
- Memory: 4GB Unknown
- Processors: 1
Features
- 1.9 GHz Celeron B840
- 4 GB DDR3 RAM
- 16 GB Hard Drive
- Google Chrome OS
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
28 of 33 people found the following review helpful.
By A. Snyder
I was excited to purchase this for my elderly mother to save me from having to update her computer and fix problems constantly. The Chromebox started up in 4 seconds, had some difficulty connecting to the ethernet, but then everything ran as expected. As I started to explain to her how everything was laid out, I figured out that with this machine there is no way to install a printer. This was confirmed by Samsung tech support (excellent by the way) who said I could print using another computer with an installed printer and Chrome's "cloud printing", or purchase a network printer. There might have been a way to install the printer driver if I was fluent in Linux, but I'm not. None of these options were doable for my mom so I am sending it back.
This device did everything it said it could do, except it did not say it couldn't print. If you have a home network with multiple computers or a networked printer, then get this machine. The speed and simplicity are incredible. But if it is the only computer in the house, I would avoid it because sooner or later you will need to print something.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
By Jim
Along with half the boomers I know, I am trying to support an engaged but aging parent with e-mail, calendar, simple word processing, and grandchild-picture functions. Those in this position know that both Windows' constant security updates and user-interface muddle and Apple's refusal to support older machines or software are challenges for those who grew up on IBM Selectrics, and that both operating systems are complex enough that talking the elderly though basic operations can be frustrating.
Chrome seems close to a workable solution. Minimalist but effective for the key grandmother tasks, secure, easy and inexpensive to replicate on support-children's home machines, cost-effective, etc. My mother's initial impressions of my new Chromebook were that it would be much less of a learning curve than her iPad had been, and that the conventional laptop interface was a better fit to her needs.
The biggest shortcoming for my purposes is the lack of a simple printing option. My mother has been printing from her iPad to a network printer, and it sort of works, but it confuses both her and the part-time network administrator at the senior-living facility, and I end up spending a lot of time trouble-shooting someone else's network. A driver for a simple laser printer (and also maybe for a snapshot-print printer) would make it all work. I'd buy a $100 base-model laser printer for her if Samsung (and/or HP, Canon, Epson...) would make sure it works and stays supported.
Better support for VGA and the other usual late-model-TV interfaces would also go a long way.
How about it, Google?
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
By G. Matot
First I gotta admit I have been a computer nerd since my first computer in 1979, a Radio Shack Model-1. Today I am a Mac and Win-7 user, at work we have XP computers. I'm pretty smart about technology.
I got my first Chrome computer, the $250 Samsung laptop when they came out not really knowing much about the Chrome OS aside from reviews online. Now, I have the newer Chromebox with the rounded white case.
Sitting right next to the monitor for the box is my iMac. I use it in conjunction with Chrome to cover for the shortfalls of this OS. Remember, Chrome is a work-in-progress and is still being developed and still well supported by Google.
The Chromebox is similar to the Chromebook in performance and features. Nice part is any change made to the settings of either reflects in both units, which is nice. Supposedly if you log in on anyone elses Chrome machine your settings, etc will eventually appear until you log-out.
With my windows-7 laptop, a rather expensive Asus ROG (Republic of Gamers) series machine, very large and heavy with 3D display using shutter glasses, the big flaw is my DVD drive never wrote correctly, so I couldn't ever make system restore discs, and when the OS got slightly corrupted it no longer allows updates to the OS. Then there's all the BS with vulnerability to viruses and spyware. Supposedly, the chrome machines are not vulnerable. Chrome means the end of messing with names like AVG and all the crapware that populates most new computers today. Switching mostly to Chrome eliminated most of what I hate in computers.
But there is a price to be paid for the convenience and boot speed; you CANNOT buy and add software. All the machine can do is access webpages. All the basics are included and work off line too, like word processing, spreadsheet, powerpoint-type presentations, and a ton more are all online and mostly totally free. For now, the Chrome machines come with free (for 2 years) 100gb online storage which I use extensively.
I do play some games and I do use itunes as a replacement for cable-TV, plus I use Amazon Prime too. There is nothing online as of today to replace itunes, but google-play comes closest so far. If you use an existing computer with itunes, run it daily, it can sync your audio podcasts with google-play to replace some of what you lose when you no longer have itunes. I hear sooner or later itunes will be available online, someday.
This is not a high performance, high capacity, high definition computer. This is a secure, simple, reliable, net-dependent OS and computer. It takes time to get used to the concept of a web based computer. For me it is taking months to adapt and I'm still learning, but it is moving along well.
Can I retire my PC yet? Nope. I am still dependent on itunes for podcasts and adding songs to my library, but the hours it is used is slowly decreasing.
Today I figured out how to connect my older Apple bluetooth keyboard and mouse to the Chromebox, they work fine. It works fine with any of my external hard drives. It really struggles with playing video via the hard drive, but online stuff works fine.
So Chrome is still a young operating system. It still needs some work, but it is slowly improving. My overall satisfaction with chrome is also increasing.
Many people gripe about privacy problem related to dependence on Google, but there are lots of add-ons and settings to greatly increase your independence from mother google, not to worry. Besides, if the purpose of computers sniffing what I do online is to show me ads, but I deploy lots of ad blocking software and seldom see ads anyway...? No matter how closely they profile me I will not make a purchase decision based on any online ad and I will NEVER click on an internet ad.
I'll add more to this review over time, but as of today, I am pleased with both of my Chrome devices.
Hoping that Google will read my review and take these suggestions to heart I am going to gradually add a list of things I would like to see added or changed on chrome and the chrome computers:
1. Settings for power saver features, like how long until it auto-shuts down. Or to disable the feature. (the power saver settings which cannot be changed now, are totally without any benefit to anyone anywhere except maybe someone living on total solar power and batteries)
2. Add the date to the time display in the lower corner of the screen.
3. Add the ability to drag and drop files into sub folders on external devices.
4. Move the audio output jack to the back of the device.
6. Add settings for display resolution, width, overscan.
7. On google play add the ability to self gather/update podcasts by RSS to my folders.
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