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The Samsung Chromebook (model XE500C21), running Google’s Chrome OS supposedly heralds a new direction for portable computers.
Chrome OS is an operating system designed to simplify users’ experience, stripping out the non-essential features found on Windows or Mac computers, leaving only the tools that the user really needs.
It does everything in a web browser (it looks very similar to Google’s Chrome browser on a standard computer). The model we’re looking connects to wireless networks, and one that’s £50 more expensive works with wireless networks and has a 3G connection to the mobile phone networks for data transfer when you’re out and about. The latter comes with a 3GB data allowance which has to be used within three months, after which you’ll need a data plan from any mobile networks.
