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Samsung - 11.6" Chromebook - Exynos 5 - 2GB Memory - 16GB Flash (eMMc) Memory - Silver
Samsung XE303C12-A01US Chromebook: This ultrathin and ultralight HD laptop is super portable, making it easy to always stay connected and productive . Easily access your files at home or on the go with free 100GB cloud storage for 2 years, or even work offline.Learn more about Chromebooks ›
Great travel laptop
Customer Rating
4.0
Posted by: AngryProgrammer
from Monterey, CA
on November 25, 2013
Display
4.0
Performance
3.0
What's great about it: Light, cheap, reasonably fast, high quality build and feel, outstanding battery life and charge time
What's not so great: Only really good at web browsing, requires you keep everything with Google, requires constant internet connection
For what it is and what it cost, this laptop beats out any other for basic web access when traveling. It's basically a fast cell phone; you can't install any real software on it, almost everything on it requires an internet connection, and you have to be pretty deep in the Google ecosystem (i.e., own an Android, have all your files on Google Drive, and primarily use Gmail). If none of the above bothers you, this is one fantastic laptop.
Battery life is amazing (I regularly get ~8-9 hours of work out of it), it recharges to 100% in something like 2-3 hours, the screen quality is nice and bright with no apparent flaws, the keyboard feels fantastic, the touch pad supports gestures, and if you lose or break it: it didn't cost $1,000.
I recently tried to use one of the cloud-based IDEs for programming on site at a conference and I found it to be too slow. The Chromebook doesn't handle complex websites very well. It'll handle your average site and even heavier sites like ebay and Amazon just fine, but webapps tend to be too heavy. Great as a last resort when all you need is to connect to the hotel wifi and check email, calendar, and other business functions. Oh, and no Skype or Webex.
This product is... A touch pad that works great, poor sound quality, A nice compact size, easy to set up
About me... Budget Conscious, Technology guru
I would recommend this to a friend!
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My Best Buy number: 2681868443
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Samsung - 11.6" Chromebook - Exynos 5 - 2GB Memory - 16GB Flash (eMMc) Memory - Silver
Samsung XE303C12-A01US Chromebook: This ultrathin and ultralight HD laptop is super portable, making it easy to always stay connected and productive . Easily access your files at home or on the go with free 100GB cloud storage for 2 years, or even work offline.Learn more about Chromebooks ›
Transferring photos from my digital camera directly to Samsung Chromebook
I have been researching laptops and have almost come to the conclusion that this product would offer me just about everything I need at a great price. My only issue is whether I can upload photos from my Nikon Coolpix camera Model S4300, as I know one can't instal software onto a Chromebook, only apps available from Google.
You can only copy the files from your camera to your Chromebook if your camera supports being seen like a hard drive, usually called "Mass Storage" mode or something similar. If you use SD cards, you can simply plug them directly into the side of the Chromebook. Another option would be a compact memory card reader. I have a 7-in-1 that plugs into my USB port and it works great.
The more immediate problem you will have is photos, especially straight off the camera, are typically very large in size and will fill up the internal storage very quickly. I would recommend a fairly large USB hard drive if that's what you intend on doing, but most USB hard drives require two USB ports for sufficient power.
If all you need to do is upload photos from your camera storage onto a service on the Internet, then the Chromebook will do just fine.
More than likely you want a more conventional laptop for managing your photos; the Chromebook will more than likely require either more equipment or more workarounds to do what you want.
The more immediate problem you will have is photos, especially straight off the camera, are typically very large in size and will fill up the internal storage very quickly. I would recommend a fairly large USB hard drive if that's what you intend on doing, but most USB hard drives require two USB ports for sufficient power.
If all you need to do is upload photos from your camera storage onto a service on the Internet, then the Chromebook will do just fine.
More than likely you want a more conventional laptop for managing your photos; the Chromebook will more than likely require either more equipment or more workarounds to do what you want.
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