Chromebooks

I'm writing this on a Samsung Chromebook.

I've had lots of experience with the Chrome browser, so the operating system is comfortable. The hardware is going to require a period of adjustment. The computer is light, only two and a half pounds, comfortable to hold on my lap. So far the keyboard is as comfortable a my MacBook Pro. The screen is a matte finish. Some people prefer matte to glossy. They even pay a lot of money to Apple for the opinion. I miss the depth of color.

Wow! This keyboard is really nice. Best feature of the machine.

I bought my first Chromebook yesterday, an Acer with a fast Intel processor and four gigs of memory. It was thick, heavy, unbalanced and uncomfortable to hold -- basically an Acer netbook running Chrome OS. Only four hours or less of battery life. It was however very fast! Much faster than this Samsung. After less than ninety minutes of typing the spacebar and the M key stopped working. You really don't know how important the spacebar is until you don't have one. James Joyce and E.E. Cumming might get by without the spacebar for a while, but not me.

I repeat, this keyboard is really nice. I'm hoping it holds up more than ninety minutes.