Samsung - Plus 2-in-1 12.2" Touch-Screen Chromebook - Intel Celeron - 4GB Memory - 32GB eMMC Flash Memory - Stealth Silver

This is my first Chromebook. I am very comfortable with any OS, mac, Windows, Linux. When I heard Chromebooks now had Linux support out of the box I decided to finally go ahead and buy one. I waited to write this review until I had used it for a couple of months so I could get a real feel for the user experience. I bought this particular model because of the size, screen resolution, and integrated stylus and the fact it seemed to get support for Linux earlier than most others. On all those fronts, the laptop is fantastic. It has great resolution. I can install and use Android apps or install Linux apps with ease. The performance is perfectly acceptable to me. So why not give it 5 stars, or at the very least, 4 stars. It really comes down to build quality and a couple of annoying little quirks that really take away from the greatness that this could be. The screen resolution is great. The display is nice and crisp.... but. There is distortion on the corners when you have a dark background like the bezel is too tight. You don't see it most of the time while you are using it, but any time there is a black background, you see it. This includes every time you open the launcher screen. It just makes the laptop feel low tier. Then there is the flex. As you carry it around, it just constantly makes noise from all the flex. It just isn't... tight. It creaks and pops and makes noise constantly. I have never had a laptop that made this much noise when you moved it around. The keyboard is solid, the trackpad is nice, but the constant creaking and popping just makes what should be a great experience feel... not so great. Even if it is sitting in your lap every time you place your palms on it or lift them off, it creaks and pops. Then, lastly is the wireless issue. You will be using the laptop and then, all of a sudden, the wifi will drop out. For a laptop that essentially requires wifi to work, this is problematic. When it happens, there will be no wifi devices visible, so the wifi is completely out. It isn't like it just lost connection to the network I was connected to. It seems to happen at random. No amount of toggling airplane mode or disabling and re-enabling the wifi will bring it back after this happens. You have to power the whole laptop down and power it back up again to get it back. This always works. Rebooting always brings it back, so it is definitely a software issue of some kind. This is totally unacceptable. It also seems to happen with bluetooth too, but not as often, or maybe I just don't use bluetooth as much. Hopefully this will get fixed in some future software update, but for this reason and this reason alone, I couldn't recommend this laptop to anyone. So in summary, ChromeOS is fine. Better than I was expecting actually. Being able to install Android and Linux apps out of the box is great. The display on this is so close to great but is ruined by the distortion in the corners when the screen is dark. The keyboard and trackpad are great, but they are ruined by the constant creaking and popping of the various plastic surfaces sliding across each other every time you shift or move. If I had paid a couple of hundred bucks for it, I could probably forgive those things, but as chromebooks go, this wasn't the cheapest out there so maybe I was expecting a little more out of it than I got. I bought this because I wanted to have a good first chromebook experience, and I wanted to try a chromebook myself before I recommended them to others. I really couldn't recommend it to anyone because of the wifi issue requiring a reboot. For me that seems to be against everything Chromebooks are supposed to be about.

I live in a Microsoft Office life. Budgets, Finances, Stocks, Excel...there is nothing that can compete against Microsoft Office. There still isn't. This Chromebook can't do Microsoft Office well either so don't expect to get it for that. However, this does manage everything else very well, more than I expected and that's why I'm giving it a 4 stars. I'm still going to use it for my eBay side job. PROS: -No sound (there are no fans) -Does not overheat -I could care less if I dropped this device. I got a great deal (better than Black Friday's Deal) -Keyboard is easy to adjust to; I have long fingers and did not find it cramped at all. -Although it's only an Intel Pentium processor, it's actually not bad after you get past the initial startup. But remember, it's still an Intel Pentium processor not an i3 or i5 or i7. -The stylus is great to have but I feel like there's some latency lag (seems to be the case with screens less than 120hz) and off center. However, still a positive having it and it's bearable so keeping it as a positive. -Battery charges up to full FAST -Battery life is pretty good, solid 8-10 hours surfing etc. and holds the charge. If you stream though you'll only get like 4 - 5 hours. -Screen resolution and sound is great CONS: -When I first got it, the touch screen had some registration issues. I noticed it got better since I updated the OS. There still are some registration issues but it's manageable. -The hinge is way too weak. Not sure if I got a defected one but whenever I lift up the chromebook, the screen falls down like flat about 1 inch or so. Not worth the hassle of sending for a warranty replacement or anything though. -Android app store integration is poor. The apps like Office still crash. I end up just using the chrome browser and logging in to use Microsoft Office. Still, I am not impressed. It won't replace a Windows PC for Office. OneNote frustrates me, sometimes it works very well and no complaints and sometimes it just crashes.

I really did enjoy several aspects of the Samsung chromebook I purchased. Unfortunately in the end it just wasn't enough of a performer for my needs. Multitasking became difficult at times and there were little glitches with the screen in tablet mode versus desktop mode. I am not saying this is an issue with all of the laptops, just the one I purchased in particular. I thoroughly enjoyed the S-Pen and the ability to run Android Apps from the Playstore. Overall it was a good chromebook/laptop in general. I just opted for a more powerful model in the end due to my particular usage. I will say that while for the most part it was of a good build quality, there was a noticeable difference between the materials used for the top half of the laptop and a much lesser grade of material for the bottom portion/keyboard. Not sure if this is just a model difference, but I have used the other model and it does speak to a much better feeling of the overall quality when the material is all the same. Also the touch sensitivity when using the screen with your finger or even the S-pen was a notably unresponsive at times. It just seems to take a little more force/deliberate touch. All of these things are what led me to feel that while this is a good laptop with great features, it just wasnt worth the price point in my opinion.

Bought two of these for my daughters for Christmas and was planning on buying the updated Pro version when it is relased in 2019. These units have exactly the features and build quality we wanted and fit our planned usage needs perfectly. Unfortunately that is where the "Good" about these units ends. When it comes to the functionality of the Chrome OS and the use of the Google Play store to provide compatible apps the whole experience took a giant "doggy diarrhea struck by the Roomba" turn for the worse. Literally NONE of the Android apps I use on my Samsung phones or tablets, nor any of the anti-Virus/safe kids applications I use to protect my kids from all the stuff kids have no business seeing or experiencing on the old www worked when transitioned to the Chrome OS. I literally spent 5 hours on the phone withe 3 separate, major internet security software providers and none could get their apps to function fully or as designed, despite every one of the 9 applications we tried ALL being available and presented as Chrome OS functional in the Google Play store on these ChromeBooks. The truly telling thing about this entire experience is that not even the Pros could make their own products work on this OS. However, on iOS (accross all Apple products), all Andriod OS 7.2 t0 8.1, and even on Windows 7, 8, & 10 each of the Internet Security suites worked exactly as designed AND most important for my needs sent alerts and notifications accross every OS and platform without issue. We got the same failure results though no matter which device we used that was running the Chrome OS. So, if you want to stick with only Google produced/developed apps for full compatibility then by all means this is some excellent hardware. But if you need additional applications above and beyond those originally installed, and especially if you want a security suite to support anti-virus/phishing/malware, kidsafe browsing/usage, VPN/Secure browsing, etc. Look at hardware running any OS but Chrome because most developers are supporting every OS BUT Chrome, despite the Chrome/Google Play store making it appear otherwise.

This second version of the Chromebook plus builds upon and refines the original design while adding new problems. What is similar to the first gen plus: great s pen stylus integration, usb c charging, micro sd slot for expansion. What is improved: the FHD screen, although lower resolution than the first gen, is bright, colorful and slightly wider 16:10 aspect ratio making it better suited for desktop mode but still comfy for tablet mode. In addition to USB C, samsung added a legacy USB A port (less dongles, more flexibility). The bad: Although this has a back facing camera, which is great and a very useful feature, the software implementation is so buggy and slow it makes the camera unuseable. The original plus weighed 2.2lbs and was perfect for desktop mode and tablet mode, handheld. Samsung jacked up the weight in this second gen plus to 3lbs, making it significantly less comfortable to hold in tablet mode and less competitive for travel to an ipad pro/similar tablet device. Performance is exceptional for a mid range chrome os device and the general build quality is above average and what you'd expect from a mid tier samsung device. I hope gen 3 lightens up this design or makes it detachable. You're almost there Samsung!

I am not a tech nerd. A lot of reviews on here are not for people like me who don't really understand the lingo. I had the same computer since highschool (I'm now 25) and it finally died on me. It was a touchscreen so that's what I was use to. I decided for my kind of use I really only needed a chromebook and not a full on computer. I saw this one in stores and liked it better than the other chromebooks they had displayed. I've had this computer for about a month and a half and it does great. I mainly use it at night for youtube, news sites, pinterest etc. The battery life is great (I can keep mine unplugged for a few days at a time, granted I only use it at night in my bedroom), the touchscreen works great, the picture is awesome, web pages load quickly and I have no issues with the keyboard being "cramped" as others have mentioned. The ONLY complaint I would have is the brightness. The screen is very bright and doesn't get very dim for nighttime/before-bed use (but that's just my personal preference). This is a very small con for me and not a big deal. Overall for users like me this computer is awesome.

This device is beautiful, it has beautiful resolution, it is super fast, the pen is cool however, it seems like there is no Palm Rejection. Using Google Keep in tablet mode was almost impossible as different apps continuously opened whenever my palm hit them. Using Squid was a little better. I decided not keep this device since I couldn't use the pen as intended. I must also mention that a couple of times while in tablet mode apps on the left side of the screen wouldn't open. I exchanged this for the Samsung Chromebook Pro which is a beautiful machine that I really loved using. Palm Rejection worked great. All of the specs were great. Just couldn't enable Adobe Flash or pair with certain bluetooth devices, which I didn't know wasn't possible before my purchase, so I had to take that back too. If those weren't issues for me I would have loved to have kept it. It was so beautiful, backlit keyboard had a nice green light, the resolution was the best I've seen 2400×1600 like the Google Pixelbook. * I do miss the Samsung Chromebook Pro.* Honestly, if I wasn't on a budget, I would have kept it but i need to buy a device that has more features.

I absolutely love this little gadget and hate to have to return it; but it lacks one very important feature:( I am a teacher and I bought this Chromebook in order to use it at work (instead of carrying a heavy Macbook). I tried several USB C to VGA adaptors and none worked with the Chromebook. I can mirror the screen from an iPad, a Macbook, a PC computer and even from my phone! The adaptors I use work flawlessly. But there is no way to project anything from this Chromebook! How is it possible? Is there any USB C to VGA adaptor, which is compatible with a chromebook? Schools use old equipment and God knows when they will switch to HDMI cables... On the bright side, everything else works well on this machine. The touch screen and the speakers could be better, but the keyboard is fantastic, all apps and the chrome browser work very fast for basic needs, and the screen is very vibrant. I like the stylus as well, when you are in a tablet mode and need to click on something, or make a screenshot. You get a lot for 400$ and if it weren´t for the VGA problem, I would never take it back. Samsung or Chrome people, please help! There should be a compatible adaptor out there... I would have given this product 5 stars if was I able to use this device in the classroom. Thanks!:)