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Samsung backtracks on $1,000 Chromebooks with cheaper Galaxy Chromebook 2
Ron Amadeo · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 7 January, 2021 - 21:44
The Galaxy Chromebook 2. It's still extremely red. [credit: Samsung ]
CES 2021 is next week, and announcements are starting to hit the wire. Last year, Samsung launched the Galaxy Chromebook , a premium, $1,000 Chrome OS laptop that felt like a successor to the Google Pixelbook . Just like Google, after experiencing the sales of a premium, $1,000 Chromebook, Samsung has decided to tone down the premium-ness in subsequent versions, and today's " Galaxy Chromebook 2 ," is a cheaper follow-up.
Last year's Galaxy Chromebook featured a headline-grabbing 13.3-inch, 4K OLED display, but this year, Samsung has hacked and slashed at the spec sheet to get down to a lower price. Instead of a 4K OLED we've got a 1080p LCD. The laptop is slower, thicker, and heavier than last year, with less storage, fewer cameras, and less RAM. All this cost-cutting has nearly cut the price in half, though: it now starts at $549.
For the starting $549, you get a 13.3-inch, 1920×1080 (16:9) LCD touchscreen, a 1.9GHz, 14nm, dual-core Intel Celeron 5205U, 4GB of LPDDR3 RAM, 64GB of eMMC storage, and a 45.5Wh battery. For $699, there is an upgraded model with an Intel Core i3-10110U, 8GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage.
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