Samsung XE300M22-A1V Chromebox

I bought this Chromebox for use by an elderly friend who is a complete novice with computing and the internet. The advantages of cloud computing (in this instance) being

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First stupid problem is that if you are not constantly moving the mouse or typing, it will switch off the video output in only 8 minutes. There's no way to reconfigure this so-called "Energy saving" function. It's the first computer in the world that...

I'd been waiting for this bit of kit for some time. If I'm on a computer then I'm pretty much always on line. So a small, completely silent and very fast box to get me there has a great attraction. I'm a writer, and I'd moved all my stuff to GoogleDocs...

I have one of the laptops that Google originally distributed in order to test Chrome OS. As the idea behind a Chromebook/box is new to some, I thought I'd focus on the operating system, though I've covered the hardware to a point.

I've just got this chromebox from a friend in Germany that was at the Google I/O in Usa last June. This is the version with intel core I5 and with a the usual amount of ram of 4GB.

Having used a chomrebook, I am really excited about the chromebox. As a student of foreign language both the chromebox and chromebook do exactly what I need: I can print, I can word process and get it to spell check in foreign languages. Some of the...

I have not bought this product as yet but thing that caught my eye was the "Always New" claim. I understand that it auto updates, but you can set your PC to do that anyway, multiple security levels to make anti virus unnecessary sounds good too as it...

At around £100 this could be tempting. Otherwise surely an iPad does it all and more. Perhaps I'm missing the point? Perhaps it is not what you get for the money but about the experience? Again an Android or iPad takes some beating so this thing had...

another ripp off product: just look at the spec and it looks as a bad joke: an intel celeron processor at 1.9MHz? HDD at 16Gb? and all in for £275? for what? for the box? obviously is trying to chip into apple's market, but even at this "low" price i...