2014年5月4日星期日

Review of Toshiba Chromebook laptop

The supporters: The 13-inch Toshiba Chromebook has a bigger screen and better keyboard than smaller 11-inch models, and battery life is excellent for a sub-$300 system. Ports include HDMI-out and dual USB 3.0.
” Very good quality for the price and performance. Also, I’m surprised at the Toshiba battery life. In idle with the average (or even a little more) brightness and wifi (surfing internet) battery life is ~7-8h (I think that is due to the new Has well processor). ”
“The performance is very good for the price tag. The keyboard and especially touchpad are good.”
” The machine runs quite cool and quiet when surfing the web and watching films. “
“I like the touch pad, keyboard, touch screen and the long Toshiba Li-ion battery life. “
The opponents: This Chromebook suffers from the same limitations as other Chrome OS products, including the inability to run native software and very small onboard storage. Some other Chromebooks are branching out, with touch screens and higher resolutions.
“Touch pad bar click loud like a toy clicker, fingerprints easily lid and touchpad”
“Heavy weight.”
” Glossy screen, hard disk, intermittent graphics card failure “
“A little expensive.”
The Neutral: Toshiba enters the growing Chromebook market with the first 13-inch model. It’s a great size for switching between travel and home/office use and feels comfortable to type on, but other Chromebooks offer more features for the same price.
If you’re going to purchase  an inexpensive or not too expensive laptop, especially under $500 or so, you may have also considered a system running Google’s Chrome OS rather than Windows. Known as Chromebooks, these laptops from PC makers such as Acer and HP are sold largely on price, and have already captured a big part of the budget laptop market.
Design and features
The keyboard is larger than a Chromebook, aside from HP’s 14-inch model, and the important keys such as Enter, Shift, and Tab, are all large and in the correct location. There’s no Windows key, obviously, and that space is taken up by a double-width Alt key .
Typing was fast and responsive, even when working on cloud-based docs through Google Drive, and the large clickpad-style touch pad lacked the lag and missed taps seen on smaller Chromebooks. Even the all-important two-finger scroll function worked about as well as on a decent budget Windows laptop.
The Chromebook pitch, much like the pitch for similarly inexpensive Netbooks several years ago, is that many people would be willing to buy a laptop with limited functionality at the right price — as long as you could still do the things that really mattered to you.

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