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 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

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.

This gift was definitely appreciated by the kid that needed it most. I recently purchased this laptop for a student who was in dire need of one to complete school papers, browse sites and a few photo editing gigs. He really likes it and for that pricei paid, I feel great that I was able to help.

I had been tired of getting laptops for myself and my kids to use for work but the viruses and constant updates and lagging to turn on had me frustrated. Decided to give chromebook a shot and was not disappointed. Since its connected to Google/ internet, no need for me to do virus control or anything else, it does it automatically. All my information is linked just as its used on my desktop. And best part is this system works with my kids school IREADY apps for their homework (not many systems work with it). Its lightweight, easy to carry around, and as long as you have wifi (which is everywhere), you are connected to all your personalized stuff. This is our 3rd one in house so that everyone can now have their own. Great purchase.

This laptop is nice i like it because I use google a lot