Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus Unboxing

ChromeOS is great, but this is a quite mediocre offering at $700. For better hardware with same form-factor, get the 2022 Galaxy Book2 Pro for $600 refurbished or $400 used, and put ChromeOS Flex/FydeOS on it. You can get so much computer these days, and in really compelling packaging, used for $400, refurbished for $500 or new for $700, that this is just not competitive. The $650 new/$450 used Macbook Air M1 is the standard in this segment and if you're not beating it on total package value (performance, software, battery-life & ecosystem/support), what are you even doing?

For me, downward firing speakers is a big deal breaker.

Using MBA M1 currently and that's the benchmark for me for good quality speakers.

I have chrome OS flex on one of my older laptop and I absolutely love it. ❤

You gotta love a good Samsung hardware! ❤ Hopefully this Chromebook comes to the EU market with the AZERTY layout.

so happy to get a great chromebook from samsung after a long time!! its not availble in norway unfortunately.. the one thing that was taking my eyes from this chromebook was the how good the pixel watch 3 (45mm?) looks awwww 😍

It's not a touch screen but is good and the best. I love Samsung

It's a real winner

It's not a touch screen

Samsung is more better than Apple

i dont know, i mean is basically the same price than 516GE but i3, i mean it looks good but i3 for USD 700 sounds like i dont think so.

OMG I thought you would never get to the review and and quit the blabber!

Five minutes into the review and still nothing, sorry your history not the only game in town

no touchscreen bummer

We need ChromeOS update reviews

Do people not use Octane 2.0 anymore for Chromebooks/boxes? I know it hasn't been updated in forever but I always found it to be a solid test. Is there a reason I shouldn't be benchmarking with it?

Also as much as I love AMOLED...after 2 years or so you're going to have burn in even to this day.

And Chromebooks (or even laptops in general) may as well get rid of the speakers period....but downward firing? C'mon. There's not a single person buying this Chromebook who doesn't have a better audio solution....not even one.

699? No touchscreen so obviously, no pen. No fingerprint scanner. No thank you. At that price, I would expect both of those things to be included.

I'm waiting on a snapdragon or whatever they are using in the new windows laptops. I want a balls out Chromebook- good camera including, touch screen included, 16gb of ram

Me want!

Highly recommend Chrome Unboxed Plus! Love being a part of the community!

Can't believe how thin this device is! Looks great!

For the first 8 minutes I was in love. Then you mentioned there was no touch screen and I was done. If I didn't want to touch screen I would buy a Mac

Intel cpu? No, thanks

I'm still rocking the original red Samsung Galaxy Chromebook. I bought it the week it was released and it's still one of the best laptops I've ever owned.

the only bad from chromebooks are you can not use premier pro or photoshop. - George.

$699!???? Bwahahahahaha! That's INSANE!!!! Good lord. An Asus Vivobook Flip 2 in 1, TP470 is only $330.... And Linux Mint recognizes every feature including pen support when you upgrade to Linux.

No touchscreen, no thank you.

Anxiously awaiting for someone to bring a higher spec 14 inch Chromebook Plus to market, my Pixelbook needs replacing!

I want this

My mom bought one kislux and she loves it. It had been there for over 10 years when she went out with it.

Man the screen seems so wobbly

What series is this laptop ?
Is it Samsung ChromeBook plus 5 ?
Or the first gen of Samsung ChromeBook Plus ?

As I have previously commented, "curb your enthusiasm," especially for new chromebooks. I handled this new device at Best Buy. Yes, it's light and pretty, but it makes no sense to buy one at $699 when there are better options, like my HP Dragonfly (not Pro) Chromebook Plus, which can be purchased new for less money with superior specs, including a touchscreen that folds, an i5, upward firing speakers and 16 gb ram. Unless your're an accountant and must have a numeric keypad, or desire the questionable value of an OLED panel, this Galaxy Chromebook Plus is not competitive.

Acer Chromebook plus 516 GE has better screen?

First time viewer and possibly, last time. You clearly stated you wouldn't get in the way of this review, not waste any time, yet it takes you nearly ONE THIRD OF THE CLIP, to even open it up...don't need you to keep rabbiting on and on, repeating phrases and words...we get it the first time around...got it?

Am I the only one seeing the screen wobble

Looks like the guys at Samsung are staying out too late drinking...every night. Who does their market research? $329 was a great sell off price for the red Chromebook 2. Great reviews at Best Buy. They should have made 2 machines. Update the red with a better camera, SSD, latest processor...and keep the price down. And this machine with an i5 and 2k touch screen at a lower price. Thin? LG went down the phone drain with their crazily named "thin Q" line.

The cool thing is this is the same blue that they're using on the Galaxy fold 6

bro no touch screen

LOL ahah lawd why What a DOWNGRADE lmao - the numpad is nice - but its literally a worse version of the existing 4K Chromebook I Am typing this on now lol - AI is marketing BS I dont even use or care about. Samsung is offering $14 for Book2, 3, Series LMAO -$500 fro an iPhone - they dont even have VALUE - you trade in a PC for a PC - not a PHONE to PC - to market $500 trade in deals is BS lmao - Samsung had an original Chromebook Plus 2 in 1 - it was cool when I had it - my red OLED Sam Chrome I'm typing on has similar processor level, same RAM, same 256, adds S-Pen - same Wi-Fi, Fingerprint - who is this "new" plus for - also BS - Samsung Notes wont work on my machine - but it works on this one that isn't even a touchscreen?! Im LOST lmao

I love the red colour of the Samsung Chromebook I've been using daily for 3 years.

I have my eye on this Samsung Chromebook, but the best Chromebook I've had was by far the Pixelbook Go. I'd stop what I'm doing on my Samsung Galaxy Book (Windows) laptop in a flash if we got another Pixelbook.

Here is my real review of this product. I want to like this channel, but I can't trust your reviews. I understand you are between a rock and a hard place, you have chosen to be an advocate of a product line that doesn't deliver, so basically you have to lie to yourself into liking every Chromebook that comes out, to sound impressed and excited about recommending products that are subpar. The biggest problem with this particular Chromebook which you failed to make a big deal of it and warn people about, is that they are paying $700 for a display with very low resolution, you can see the individual pixels from a mile away, text are not sharp, nothing is sharp on this display, it is like looking at one of those DOS machines from the 1990's. Yes, you get deep blacks, but you are not getting the super rich colors either because of the new Satin lamination that Samsung is now using on all their devices to reduce glare. Final conclusion, this particular model is a ripoff. This model has the PLUS identifier on its name, but it does not live up to those requirements. Google came out with the plus designation to guarantee a premium experience, and this particular machine is far from premium, this is a very budget device. For $100 less, you can get the ACER Spin 14 which scream premium quality in every aspect, except that it doesn't have an OLED panel.

No touchscreen? Huh. I believe Samsung has always copied Apple and tried to outdo them at their own game, and omitting a touchscreen is a good example. Trying for lightness and thinness at the cost of functionality goes with it. A Chromebook has Android support and Android needs touch. A mouse or touchpad isn't the same. There's a reason that Apple started to use touchscreens extensively and it's hypocritical to suggest laptops don't need them when phones and tablets do.

Any laptop without a touchscreen should be used primarily for things that don't require a touchscreen, like workstations and maybe gaming machines. Samsung specializes at neither of these things and seems far more concerned with aesthetics and the appearance of prestige when there's no good reason to believe Samsung devices are practically better than their competitors. Instead, they have phones with 200 MP cameras while the James Webb Space Telescope has one with 122 MP.

Chromebooks should be useful and fun machines for low-end gaming. There's no good excuse for limiting the functionality of a Chromebook outside very specific uses. All Chromebooks should have touchscreens unless it's to save on the cost, in the same way a cheap, faded display would save money or a cheap, slow ARM processor would save money.

For Samsung to make an ostensibly premium Chromebook Plus minus a touchscreen shows that Samsung is mad. Are they afraid of cannibalizing their tablet sales like Apple?

I doubt Samsung has much to offer beyond some technology that others buy for their own products, like Apple. They'll never be truly great because they don't know how and they don't have the right attitude to figure it out. That some American long dead of cancer is still beating the pants off Samsung in every way should be an embarrassment to them, but they continue to double-down like worms trying to copy the Americans because they have no originality greater than making their products look pretty and over-speccing them to the point of ridicule. They've even changed how Android works enough to complicate matters and confuse their users.

Excuse me, but I'm 11 minutes into a 25-minute UNBOXING? Maybe you should consider how it looks to take 25 minutes to UNBOX a product and give first impressions. Do you think it would be more dignified to keep such a thing short? Maybe half that length? It might help if you weren't quite so talkative about the same things, like how thin it is or how nice. You have a well-established channel. Maybe you don't care about doing a good job and never did. Why improve when you can just talk people to death about stuff that may not especially be relevant to them... for 25 minutes... without actually REVIEWING a product based on a more significant period of time than an UNBOXING?

Acer Chromebook plus 516 ge could be better than the Samsung?

It's is Good but its not a touchscreen

Seems odd to see someone get so excited by mundane and mostly mediocre hardware, when it really is not that cheap.

Not touch screen but is good and the best and I love it and it's the best