Want a Peek at the Future of Laptops? Check Out Samsung’s New Chromebooks | WIRED (Jan 4, 2017)

There’s a little too much hype in the headline here – this isn’t the future of laptops as much as the present, but as Chromebooks rather than Windows machines. The sort of convertible model Samsung is using here has been growing among Windows PCs for years now. In some ways the more interesting difference is that these laptops are being priced more like mid-range Windows PCs rather than cheap alternatives, as Chromebooks have been in the past. OEMs seem to be banking on Android integration to sell these machines now that price isn’t really a factor anymore.

via CES 2017: First-Look at Samsung’s Chromebook Plus and Chromebook Pro | WIRED

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