Review of Samsung Chromebook 2

All variants of the Samsung Chromebook 2 are equipped with Wi-Fi module with support for 802.11ac, as well as the CPU used or Samsung Exynos 5 Octa, or set in our Intel Celeron configuration. Let's see how these and other components affect the work with Chrome OS.

Construction quality more than satisfactory: a slightly pressed only the center of the keyboard and the lid, the rest of the surface of this type successfully resist deformation. Cover pleased resistant to bending, and thanks to the tight loops it does not play, even during fast typing, regardless of the opening angle (max. 135 degrees). Laptop weighs just 1.2 kg, so that its transportation does not make much effort. BTW, you can select the replacement of Samsung Chromebook power adapter at Banggood. Besides, you can easily get other power supplies (e.g. Toshiba Tecra charger) there with high quality and reasonable prices.

Chromebook 2 is equipped with a processor, the Intel the Celeron N2840, 2 GB of RAM and eMMC-module 16 GB. Needless to say, the characteristics are very modest, but they lack the Chrome OS. By virtue of the limitation of the operating system is unpretentious, if Windows 8.1 on a similarly equipped tablets are often slow, the Chromebook 2 is almost always responds quickly. Download web pages and running applications will not cause delays.

A small amount of memory, however, can be a hindrance: five tabs from Google Maps uses almost 2GB. This does not lead to a significant slowdown of the system, but users accustomed to a couple dozen tabs open, we would still be advised to take one of the models with the Samsung Exynos 5 Octa: all of them are equipped with 4 GB of RAM.

Below are the results of various benchmarks running on our Samsung Chromebook 2. As usual, the absence of the most popular versions of the utilities for the Chrome OS browser-compels us to restrict the tests. They show that the Chromebook 2 is slightly ahead of the old Chromebook , but competing Chromebook from HP and Acer with low voltage Intel Celeron processors on the Haswell architecture or Broadwell work almost twice as fast. True, they are much more expensive.