SAMSUNG XE303C12-A01US 11.6-inch Chromebook Wi-Fi- Silver

Pros: - Fast boot time
- Apps
- App store
- USB 3.0
- HDMI (out)
- Bluetooth
Cant really explain my joy over this laptop. Its amazingly fast. You really get what you pay for... if anything its like giving $249 and getting $500 in return. The hardware is great and made for what the laptop is suppose to be used for.

Cons: Non at all

Other Thoughts: People need to stop thinking this is going to be like their windows desktop/laptop. This laptop is for using a WEB browser for everything. Everyone who is using Microsoft Office should just fall down and die right now or switch to Google Drive... it has a word processor, spreadsheet, power point, forms, drawing, and more! The best parts about Drive is that everything is saved automatically and multiple people can work on the same project at the same time. Having a Chromebook just makes everything faster.

My school district bought a few class sets and everyone is liking them so far. (I have my own).

Pros: Small, thin, light, 6.5 hours of battery life, nice keyboard, large touchpad, good screen. Google Chrome OS instead of Windows 8 Metro! The charger is small and light too. Fanless and quiet. Boots very quickly. Plays YouTube videos just fine. Oh yeah, and all this for the great low price of $249.

Cons: You need a good wifi connection for the Chromebook for most tasks. No ethernet port. Not many offline apps available. Besides the browser, there aren't many native apps. Not really a con for me, but I took away 1 star for the apps because it could be a problem for other people.

Other Thoughts: If you just want to surf the web, this is a good light traveling laptop. It has some limitations that I can live with. I wouldn't recomend this as your only computer, but it's great 2nd computer. Didn't order this from Newegg, because I needed shipping to an APO address.

Pros: Awesome battery life
Great keyboard
lightweight
fast boot up

Cons: Mousepad takes getting used to.
Screen could be brighter

Other Thoughts: I dont know what the previous reviewers were smoking but this works great for streaming. Ive used Youtube and Netflix.
Hulu ? Im never going to use a service where you pay for a subscription *and* have to watch ads.
Seriously this is a great notebook and fits nicely in between a work laptop and a home tablet

Pros: Cheap, but you get what you pay for.

It's also lightweight, so there's that.

Cons: OS crashes almost every time I use it. The interface is difficult to navigate and everything is SOOO SLOOOOW. If you are thinking about getting this to stream anything online, don't waste your time. Hulu freezes constantly. I can't even play any video files from my external hard drive because they are so jumpy and freeze up.

From this experience, I can only assume that it is best to wait a few more years for the bugs to be worked out of the Chrome OS.

In addition, the hardware is just too slow. The whole idea for me purchasing the Chromebook was for an inexpensive option because I don't have to pay for all the Microsoft HW, but I'd much rather use my Dell with Windows 8 than use this piece of junk.

I am currently begging Newegg to accept my return.

Other Thoughts: Save yourselves.

Pros: Cheap and easy to use.

Cons: Very low cost notebook and it shows.

Other Thoughts: ChromeOS is half baked, sorry guys this doesn't cut it. Going back to Windows where I can get real work done. Disagree all you want, but it doesn't help my situation.

Pros: I love these chromebooks, this is the 2nd one I've owned before this I had the Acer C7.

First off you have to be aware of what you are buying, this will not be like any laptop you have ever used, infact this won't be like anything you have ever used. This is just a web browser through and through, with apps.

The laptop is more current now so more then ever, with "cloud computing" becoming a huge thing in the market, Chromebooks are literally made for cloud computing.

This laptop is inexpensive, but fast, it starts up in under 4 seconds, and then your browsing the web.

Microsoft office 365 works perfectly with this device, or you can use google docs if your professors don't mind it. Now you can't install microsoft office, but by paying the 10$ a month fee, you can use the full office suite on microsofts "skydrive" and there is literally no difference between it and the install able version.

Spotify and Rdio both have web players that work great for the chromebook, not to mention the chromebooks own media player.

Netflix works amazingly, I like it a little better then on normal computers to be honest.

Steam has a web based chat program with notifications that are fully compatible with Chrome. As does most other instant messengers.

The HDMI out is a really nice little thing that I did not expect to ever find on these laptops, that make them all the more useful for netflix.

The keyboard is the best keyboard I have every used, worked can't really explain it but the keyboard is top notch, I wish google sold them separably so that I could use it on my main build.

The mousepad is really sensitive, and easy to use after you get use to it (see cons)

The laptop never gets hot, the battery lasts for hours, the SSD speeds this thing up like nothing else, the USB 3.0 is a nice addition for those who want an external harddrive.

The screen is really nice for the price of this laptop, decently bright, and is good for what you need it for.

I have not had any lag with this yet, I had 30 tabs open and not one problem.

Cons: The mousepad is tricky at first, I can see what google was trying to do, but they could of avoided all problems but including a built in right click into the mousepad.

Other Thoughts: With adobe entering into the cloud computing world with photoshop, this laptop will be able to do everything.

The packaging for this is a wonderful box that is very protective of the laptop. Don't be scared of this laptop, it is a very powerful machine, that sooner rather then latter will be just as valid as a 12 hundred dollar laptop.

Pros: I like the Samsung Chromebook.

Very light
Inexpensive
Very quiet
Nice keyboard layout
Good screen
Plays videos well
Boots up and wakens from sleep very fast

Cons: Keyboard letters are lower case and smaller than caps
No VNC Viewer for ARM processors - yet
No Delete key

Other Thoughts: Except for the VNC capability, this replaces my stolen Acer Aspire One netbook nicely.

Pros: 1920x1080 HDMI output works great, battery life excellent, multipul account logins, Netflix works great, whats more to ask for the great price?

Cons: power connector could have been a USB a bit more durable

Other Thoughts: Great laptop for parents and in-laws that only need web, email, etc.

Pros: THE choice for the average computer user. If you essentially use a computer for social media and Google apps, Chromebooks cannot be beat. High quality hardware and software pieced together to provide a fantastic and inexpensive web consumer experience.

Cons: My only con, which is dwarfed by the pros, is that the touchpad seems to get stuck if you press to click. However, if you touch to click, all is well.

Other Thoughts: I bought this for my fiance as a replacement for her broken laptop. I couldn't help but give a spin myself, and I love it. A lot of people over-emphasize the limitations of ChromeOS. Yes, you are limited to the web and chrome web store.... but its the web and chrome web store. We know the web at large is growing everyday, and the chrome web store isn't an exception. You may not be able to use your favorite desktop application, but there is probably a great brower-based alternative.

Pros: Awesome battery life! Easily hits the promised 6.5 hours, depending on usage. I'm a student, so I basically just have WiFi on, moderate brightness on Google Docs for a few hours a day. At home I'll use it for YouTube, Google Play Music, reddit, facebook, etc. Those uses eat up battery a bit more. It performs almost perfectly for all these things, except occasionally YouTube. Some tweaking and I got it running generally how I want it.

Keyboard and trackpad are great. The two-finger right click is intuitive and hard to not try to use on my Windows laptop. Side note: I hardly turn on that hunk of junk anymore because most things I want to do I can do on my Chromebook, and it does them better.

For the $250, there is nothing better for my purposes. Chrome OS made me realize how much I can really live in the Cloud or already did.

Don't have Netflix myself, but it is updated to work on Chrome OS now. Xfinity (which uses Hulu) works just fine.

Cons: Screen could be higher resolution, but I'd fear text would be tiny if that were the case, on non-scaling websites. It also auto-adjusts brightness, and as far as I know, you cannot change this. (Un)fortunately it does so rapidly; simply putting my head slightly more in the way can change it. The bottom 30% of the brightness meter is pretty much useless. Too dark for almost any normal usage scenario except dead of night. I find my sweet spot is typically just about 50%.

It failed to play a Blu-ray 1080p rip at an acceptable framerate. I forget what the file type was.

Local or USB and SD storage don't tell you how full they are.

The local media player is more of a sound player. No playlist function or browsing by artist. Have your music organized by folders.

Some weird behavior with YouTube and my plugin, YouTube Options. Still trying to get to the bottom of that.

Other Thoughts: The Microsoft optical USB mouse I have has a very low sensitivity with Chrome OS's mouse sensitivity maxed out, so I try not to use it. I have another USB mouse I may grab this weekend; hopefully it has better sensitivity.

The HDMI port automatically pumps audio out, cutting the speakers, unless you plug headphones in. This is good because my roommates' TV needs split audio and video. You can't change the HDMI audio output level, which is just fine; there's never any need.