Samsung Chromebook 4 – 11.6″ Inch Laptop 32GB (Intel Celeron

Samsung Chromebook 4 – 11.6″ Inch Laptop 32GB (Intel Celeron N4000, 4GB RAM, 32 GB eMMC, Chrome OS), (UK Version)





Weight: | 1.2 kg |
Dimensions: | 20.23 x 20.2 x 1.67 cm; 1.2 Kilograms |
Brand: | Samsung |
Model: | XE310XBA-KA1UK |
Colour: | Titan Grey |
Batteries Included: | Yes |
Manufacture: | Samsung |
Dimensions: | 20.23 x 20.2 x 1.67 cm; 1.2 Kilograms |
Bought it for my sister who is studying. She says it’s just what she needs, with a long battery life and light enough to carry around all day at uni.
It’s really good, but there are drawbacks
The good:
Excellent battery life
Lightening fast
Easy to use
Keyboard is decent
Solid construction
Light enough without weighing nothing
The bad:
The screen is terrible for something still retailing at around 200
The camera is trash and is not usable for conferencing. This is resolvable with a usb webcam, and I did get a capture card working for my go pro. It costs pennies to add a decent webcam module, this wasn’t a particularly cheap device on release
If you can get one for under 100 you will be impressed. If you pay more than that you are not going to be thrilled about the screen. You get used to it, but Samsung shouldn’t be releasing devices that skimp on vital components, especially ones they produce in house. The webcam I can forgive as I wouldn’t use a laptops inbuilt cam for anything, but it is an odd thing to cut costs on in 2020. They must have old camera modules lying around, why did they go with something as bad as the camera in this?
Those things said, I like it. I bought it so I could leave my main laptop at home, set up for Zoom. I’m using this Chromebook to type this review on…..so I must be able to forgive the screen, especially as I watched two films on it tonight. My main laptop is 8 years old, and it’s a bit slower than this, so I like the 15 second boot time. There are android games I like playing and this runs them fine.
The laptop is useful when I am writing or want to see website pages more clearly.
I haven’t got around to using the camera and audio but I intend to as I’ll also use the laptop for home music recording.