Samsung - 11.6" Chromebook - Intel Atom x5 - 2GB Memory - 16GB eMMC Flash Memory - Night Charcoal

The pre-Black Friday pricing on this Chromebook is certainly appealing, particularly from a well-respected electronics manufacturer like Samsung. However, Best Buy website has presented conflicting information on what you are actually buying. This review is purely to provide information regarding that, as this product will not be opened and fired up until Christmas at our house. The high level product categorization is: Samsung - 11.6" Chromebook - Intel Atom x5 - 2GB Memory - 16GB eMMC Flash Memory - Night Charcoal (notice no mention of "Chromebook 3") A device with those specifications listed on the packaging are indeed what I received from In-Store pickup today, and was also listed as Chromebook 3. However, the detailed product description lists this as Chromebook 3 with Celeron N3060. Here's where it gets confusing, and why... Auto Update Expiration Date (where Google will continue providing support to the device). Printed on the cardboard box from Samsung, it states "This product will continue to receive automatic updates until June 2021." However, the Chrome OS website states that Chromebook 3 will receive support through June 2022. I am not stating which support date is correct, but this is something you should consider when purchasing a product with conflicting marketing information. For the price I paid and the fact I am giving it to a 7 year old who's going to get a school provided Chromebook in August of 2021 anyway? It's somewhat irrelevant to me. But if you are hoping for longer term support from a device, I recommend enhanced due diligence so you understand what you are buying.

I bought this laptop after my dell finally died and I have to say it’s way better. I don’t know why it has any bad reviews it works great. It’s lightweight and compact. Super fast and I can do a multitude of things at a time. Sound quality is pretty loud, and I love the apps you can download onto your home screen. It also soft shut downs itself when you’re inactive and charges fully within the hour

I thought Best Buy had made a typo listing this Samsung Chromebook 3 as coming with an Atom X5 E8000 CPU (actually it’s a micro-motherboard “System on Chip”, much more integrated than Old Skool CPU motherboards). My 3 purchased last year with 4gb/32gb came with an N3060 Celeron. Now, the low-end Celeron series like that N3060 are really just Atoms allowed to run faster (and hotter), they actually have same processor “architecture” as release-date matching Atom-series SOC’s like this X5 E8000. In this case, my new Samsung Chromebook 3 is, in fact, running on an Atom vs. last year’s running the N3060, so it runs slower, but guess what, it is as fast as last years maybe faster because the Atom E8000 has 4 cores but the N3060 only 2 cores. It’s definitely faster than my low-end N3060 Windows 10 “Win-books”, So. This makes a great browsing and typing tool. I can work on a Google Doc word processing document in one tab and easily switch to background tabs for research. I haven’t loaded more than 10 tabs, and I don’f play music on YouTube etc. in the background - I manage my processor load to leave resources free for the real work (also uninstalled the Android support in Settings, and turned off Google Assistant). Caution: the Google Chromebook program is under a lot of criticism for early expiration dates for brand new computers - my $89-on-sale Samsung Chromebook 3 had a bleak note on its 3-months old carton declaring there would be no updates after June 2021 (yes the manufacture date on my unit’s carton was only 3 months ago). This expiration date was extended last week to June 2022. That’s still short, and either Google will be exposing a lot of users to hacking after that, or creating a lot of e-waste, so I and others are hoping for support at least a long as Windows gets. Oh - an internet website recently destructively drop-tested 10 different Chromebook models and this inexpensive Samsung was one of two that survived.

I bought this for my husband's Fantasy football league. What I don't like is the icons are at the bottom of the screen instead of the home screen so when he wants to pull up his icons they get in the way of his auto search. If someone can direct us on how to get icons on the screen instead of below this would work great for him.

My grandson love this chrome book. It is exactly what he need and he thinks grandma is the BEST. Would definitely purchase again and can’t beat the price. Purchased the plan for added security

The Chromebook is a shocking quality for the price. I would recommend this to anyone. The keyboard and mouse feel great, the screen gets very bright, functions shockingly well. Although on the box it says something to the effect of "support for this product will end XXX 2021" which I mean is less than 2 years away so I'm not sure how I feel about that. But for the price, I justified it haha. If you're looking for a Chromebook you won't feel bad your kids would beat to death, or just a go-to for checking emails and maybe the occasional video, this Chromebook is pretty good.

This chromebook has a terrible screen, and it's slow when more than one task it's running. Know your expectations though. It functions perfectly as a spare laptop to keep around for checking email, web browsing, and even for homework. For the price I consider this a winner.

We wanted one of these because the kids use Chromebooks at school. Just so happened to be on sale. We literally jumped at getting it! It's basically like a 11.6" Android screen. Super easy to use, fast, and does everything our tablet does. We would definitely buy another.