Scope of delivery
Chromebooks ASUS Chromebook C200 comes in a typical cardboard box, so to distinguish it from conventional storage racks laptops will not work.
Supplied quite spartan - power supply and supporting documents. However, expect more of the budget unit (suggested retail price for the US market is $ 249) would be too optimistic.
Design, materials
Note that the older 13.3-inch ASUS Chromebook C300 is available in four design options - black, blue, yellow and red, while in the first case, the operation panel is also made of black, while youth "colorful" versions differ light main panel .
More compact 11.6-inch version in the less fortunate, as it is available in only black and silver versions.
Cover Chromebooks ASUS Chromebook C200 is finished in black matte plastic. The material leaves a pleasant tactile feel, but too quickly cover the following touch. In the center of the lid with mirror company logo in the upper left corner you can find all the usual mark Chromebooks - brand four-ball and inscription Chrome.
Base of the housing is made of a less pretentious rough black plastic. Here you can see the rubber feet, screws, fasteners, proprietary information, and a pair of vertical falshreshetok acoustics.
Operating panel and virtually all facets are made in one piece of silver plastic under the metal. Same silver made and shelving hinge, resulting in a closed form ASUS Chromebook C200 body looks "three-layer".
The front and rear faces are free, you can only find the right hole for the Kensington lock, USB 2.0 port and an optional card slot Micro-SIM. The left sidewall handed combined audio port, full-sized card reader in SD, port USB 3.0, HDMI video output and a jack for the power supply with LED activity.
ergonomics
The display unit is easy to open with one hand, but at the end you may need a little hold the operation panel. Developers make a special emphasis on the "hidden" hinge, which in their opinion is more attractive than the classic two-loop option.
But edging 11.6-inch matrix of black matte plastic could be narrower, too wide black stripes visually heavier ASUS Chromebook C200. Resolution glossy matrix is 1366 * 768 pixels, the range of brightness - from 15 to 270 cd / m2. By the way, the overall dimensions of the device are 304,3x200x19,8 mm, weight - 1.15 kg.
Chromebooks island keyboard makes it comfortable to work with the text, as the size of the keys almost identical medium format options. Note ergonomic block arrows in the form of "inverted T" and a specific set of service keys needed to work with Chrome OS.
Touchpad without dedicated keys turned out just great, it really can replace "mouse" that special note amateurs working with laptop in a minimum of space - on the table in a cafe or on her knees in the transport or in the countryside.
Features of the Chrome OS operating system we discussed in the review hromboksa ASUS Chromebox and a separate review of this software.
functionality
Both ASUS Chromebook Cx00 Chromebooks are built on absolutely identical energy efficient hardware platform Intel Bay Trail-M. As the CPU can perform chip Intel Celeron N2830 or Intel Celeron N2930 with integrated graphics Intel HD Graphics. It is interesting that despite the similar designations, the first dual-core processor, and the second - the quad.
RAM is 2 GB or 4 GB, and memory soldered on the motherboard and can not be upgrade. The capacity of local storage, depending on the configuration of 16 or 32 GB. You can expand it with the help of external memory cards SD, while Chromebooks guaranteed specification supports SDHC, t. E. Cards with a maximum capacity of 32 GB. Where there is access to a global network, you can use cloud storage Google Drive, the benefit of all owners of ASUS Chromebook C200, Google offers 100 GB of 2 years free.
Responsible for data transfer module Wi-Fi 802.11n / ac, while at the time of sale he can only work in a standard b / g / n, and support for the latest 802.11ac will appear after updating the firmware. Card slot micro-SIM on the test specimen indicates that there are and the 3G-version Chromebooks (or, at least, the possibility of self-installation 3G-module), but official information about this modification yet.
Chromebooks ASUS Chromebook C200 is equipped with removable three-segment battery 48 Wh, from which according to the manufacturer, the device is able to work up to 11 hours. Since our test suite Battery Eater does not work with the operating system Chrome OS, verify this assertion in practice failed.
Chromebooks ASUS Chromebook C200 comes in a typical cardboard box, so to distinguish it from conventional storage racks laptops will not work.
Supplied quite spartan - power supply and supporting documents. However, expect more of the budget unit (suggested retail price for the US market is $ 249) would be too optimistic.
Design, materials
Note that the older 13.3-inch ASUS Chromebook C300 is available in four design options - black, blue, yellow and red, while in the first case, the operation panel is also made of black, while youth "colorful" versions differ light main panel .
More compact 11.6-inch version in the less fortunate, as it is available in only black and silver versions.
Cover Chromebooks ASUS Chromebook C200 is finished in black matte plastic. The material leaves a pleasant tactile feel, but too quickly cover the following touch. In the center of the lid with mirror company logo in the upper left corner you can find all the usual mark Chromebooks - brand four-ball and inscription Chrome.
Base of the housing is made of a less pretentious rough black plastic. Here you can see the rubber feet, screws, fasteners, proprietary information, and a pair of vertical falshreshetok acoustics.
Operating panel and virtually all facets are made in one piece of silver plastic under the metal. Same silver made and shelving hinge, resulting in a closed form ASUS Chromebook C200 body looks "three-layer".
The front and rear faces are free, you can only find the right hole for the Kensington lock, USB 2.0 port and an optional card slot Micro-SIM. The left sidewall handed combined audio port, full-sized card reader in SD, port USB 3.0, HDMI video output and a jack for the power supply with LED activity.
ergonomics
The display unit is easy to open with one hand, but at the end you may need a little hold the operation panel. Developers make a special emphasis on the "hidden" hinge, which in their opinion is more attractive than the classic two-loop option.
But edging 11.6-inch matrix of black matte plastic could be narrower, too wide black stripes visually heavier ASUS Chromebook C200. Resolution glossy matrix is 1366 * 768 pixels, the range of brightness - from 15 to 270 cd / m2. By the way, the overall dimensions of the device are 304,3x200x19,8 mm, weight - 1.15 kg.
Chromebooks island keyboard makes it comfortable to work with the text, as the size of the keys almost identical medium format options. Note ergonomic block arrows in the form of "inverted T" and a specific set of service keys needed to work with Chrome OS.
Touchpad without dedicated keys turned out just great, it really can replace "mouse" that special note amateurs working with laptop in a minimum of space - on the table in a cafe or on her knees in the transport or in the countryside.
Features of the Chrome OS operating system we discussed in the review hromboksa ASUS Chromebox and a separate review of this software.
functionality
Both ASUS Chromebook Cx00 Chromebooks are built on absolutely identical energy efficient hardware platform Intel Bay Trail-M. As the CPU can perform chip Intel Celeron N2830 or Intel Celeron N2930 with integrated graphics Intel HD Graphics. It is interesting that despite the similar designations, the first dual-core processor, and the second - the quad.
RAM is 2 GB or 4 GB, and memory soldered on the motherboard and can not be upgrade. The capacity of local storage, depending on the configuration of 16 or 32 GB. You can expand it with the help of external memory cards SD, while Chromebooks guaranteed specification supports SDHC, t. E. Cards with a maximum capacity of 32 GB. Where there is access to a global network, you can use cloud storage Google Drive, the benefit of all owners of ASUS Chromebook C200, Google offers 100 GB of 2 years free.
Responsible for data transfer module Wi-Fi 802.11n / ac, while at the time of sale he can only work in a standard b / g / n, and support for the latest 802.11ac will appear after updating the firmware. Card slot micro-SIM on the test specimen indicates that there are and the 3G-version Chromebooks (or, at least, the possibility of self-installation 3G-module), but official information about this modification yet.
Chromebooks ASUS Chromebook C200 is equipped with removable three-segment battery 48 Wh, from which according to the manufacturer, the device is able to work up to 11 hours. Since our test suite Battery Eater does not work with the operating system Chrome OS, verify this assertion in practice failed.
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