whats your thoughts on samsung Chromebook ?

[CaptainBeno]

i am looking for a laptop to surf the web watch videos i only game on consoles so i was thinking about the samsung chromebook below

http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/chrome-os-devices/XE303C12-A01US

i rip a lot of dvds on my windows laptop and send them to my 10TB nas storage so i want ot be able to watch mp4 vidoes on it as well.

thats about all .

has anyone used this chromebook how is it ?

thanks

[CaptainBeno]

Yikes not a single reply ill take that as stay away from chromebooks thanks lol

[REM2000]

I owned a Samsung ChromeBook

You can watch MP4 videos however i did this locally with an SD card as im not sure how you would do this over the network, unless the NAS has a web front end with the ability to stream.

The chromebook will surf the net without a problem, i didn't have any.

I think generally the video will be your sticking point so it might be worth putting in a few extra $ and getting a cheap windows laptop that will allow you to access your nas and view videos across your network.

[Haggis Veteran]

As long as your network drive got an option to stream media over http it will work nicely on chromeOS. In the new chromebook you get a 'native' media player that can play a variety of audio and video file types: MP3, Ogg Vorbis, AIF, WAV, and MP4 videos.

[margrave]

If all you're looking to do is web surf, email, and watch videos then the chromebook might work for you. The price is good, just know that your getting a browser box mainly.

[threetonesun]

We have one in our house, it's a decent little computer. The battery life has been impressive and it's nice and light. A $150 will get you a fully functioning Windows 8 computer, but not in that same form factor.

[medhunter]

I actually don't have so many details on chrome OS, but I get the idea.

PC is for Computer stuff, not merely gaming.Console is merely for gaming.

So, I can agree with you on the possibility of Chrome books.I might add Linux Joli cloud system.It is very close to Chrome OS, yet, built on linux . As far as I recall 2 years ago, it had VLC built in.

Good luck with more info from our friends here

[Growled Member]

I own one and love it. It's great for most tasks, but obviously it isn't for everything. I watch MP4 movies from a USB drive. AVI doesn't work. And the darn thing won't connect to my network.

[CaptainBeno]

I decided on a dell laptop that has windows 8 for 349.00 I'm going to put fedora 19 on it and be happy happy happy thanks for the input.

[Growled Member]

Hope you enjoy your purchase. :)