{"id":31,"date":"2015-09-26T16:16:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T00:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packdude.org\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2019-08-21T14:43:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T21:43:43","slug":"finally-bit-the-bullet-on-a-chromebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/26\/finally-bit-the-bullet-on-a-chromebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally bit the bullet on a Chromebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chromebooks &#8212; been hemming and hawing about getting one of these for a couple of years. &nbsp;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. &nbsp;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. &nbsp;It was on sale for $219, and after playing with it in the store for about 30 minutes, I was hooked. &nbsp;I checked review online while I was in the store, and also compared prices to the higher performance Chromebook offerings. &nbsp;But for my needs, this just couldn&#8217;t be beat for the price.<\/p>\n<p>What I like about it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Great quality LCD screen<\/li>\n<li>Perfect size &#8211; fits perfectly in my Maxpedition Narrow Look bag<\/li>\n<li>Very lightweight<\/li>\n<li>Long battery life (9+ hours)<\/li>\n<li>Inexpensive<\/li>\n<li>Solid build\/finish<\/li>\n<li>Plenty good performance for everything I do<\/li>\n<li>Stays cool without the need for a (noisy) fan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What I would like different:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More RAM. &nbsp;These Chromebooks usually only have the option of 2GB or 4GB soldered on the motherboard. &nbsp;Would be great to have an 8GB option just for fun.<\/li>\n<li>Larger SSD than 16GB, and the ability to upgrade it, too. &nbsp;A few other Chromebooks have the ability to upgrade the mSATA SSD. &nbsp;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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-116\" src=\"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/372480-samsung-chromebook-2-xe500c12-k01us.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/372480-samsung-chromebook-2-xe500c12-k01us.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/372480-samsung-chromebook-2-xe500c12-k01us-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/372480-samsung-chromebook-2-xe500c12-k01us-768x590.jpg 768w, https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/372480-samsung-chromebook-2-xe500c12-k01us-391x300.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chromebooks &#8212; been hemming and hawing about getting one of these for a couple of years. &nbsp;The idea really intrigued me, and I even tried to get a custom build of ChromeOS to work on a couple of my laptops, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/26\/finally-bit-the-bullet-on-a-chromebook\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}