Chromebook has arrived

Published 2017-06-14

With what I can only describe as an obscene amount of excitement, I’ve unwrapped my new Samsung Chromebook Plus and it’s everything I could have asked for. Typing is fluid and feels like it will retain that crispness, the display is ridiculously bright, and even my weird “use the search key as a control key” setting has migrated over to this baby.

Oh yes, I’m writing this new post on the device. It’s definitely in a position to become my daily-driver (minus the times when work requires that I use their hardware).

Some negatives at this time include:

1. The keyboard is ever so slightly cramped compared to the rMBP, but that’s due to the 3:2 aspect ratio.
2. The screen is just so damned BRIGHT it burns my eyeballs a little
3. Chunky webpages like Inbox and Slack are taking just a few seconds to load and “get smooth,” but admittedly this happens to my quad-core i7 laptop, and to my rMBP, so no real change there. (Ok, I was hoping for a little more out of this OP1 processor, but who am I kidding…)

Overall I believe I am and will remain extremely pleased with this purchase, especially once I finish my Coursera classes and can get to work on more development projects!