Chromebooks — been hemming and hawing about getting one of these for a couple of years.  The idea really intrigued me, and I even tried to get a custom build of ChromeOS to work on a couple of my laptops, to no avail.  So far, nothing really struck my fancy in terms of price/performance ratio until I saw this little 11 inch Samsung Chromebook 2 with the Intel processor at Fred Meyer last night.  It was on sale for $219, and after playing with it in the store for about 30 minutes, I was hooked.  I checked review online while I was in the store, and also compared prices to the higher performance Chromebook offerings.  But for my needs, this just couldn’t be beat for the price.

What I like about it:

• Great quality LCD screen
• Perfect size – fits perfectly in my Maxpedition Narrow Look bag
• Very lightweight
• Long battery life (9+ hours)
• Inexpensive
• Solid build/finish
• Plenty good performance for everything I do
• Stays cool without the need for a (noisy) fan

What I would like different:

• More RAM.  These Chromebooks usually only have the option of 2GB or 4GB soldered on the motherboard.  Would be great to have an 8GB option just for fun.
• Larger SSD than 16GB, and the ability to upgrade it, too.  A few other Chromebooks have the ability to upgrade the mSATA SSD.  However, this is not a huge issue because there is a nice recessed and covered Micro SD card slot, and this allowed me to easily boost the effective local storage by 128GB.