Comments on: 1 Month with my Chromebook and it’s going back to Samsung

By: Baronne Mouton

Baronne Mouton — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:44:45 +0000

I sent mine back after a couple of days and bit the bullet and bought a MacBook Air. I found the Chromebook experience painful to be brutally honest. Lots of crashes, not enough grunt and wasn’t quite what I expected. Maybe some other day…

By: Randall

Randall — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:53:15 +0000

I’ve actually been really lazy about sending it back. I went on vacation right around the time this happened and by the time I got back, they canceled my repair request. So I have yet to send it.

By: Jonathan Seyghal

Jonathan Seyghal — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 21:36:55 +0000

So did your Chromebook get repaired and was anything wrong or was it just Chrome OS? I’m getting much the same experience with crashing on my Series 5.
From the sound of the previous comment it’s a software issue.

By: Josh Gachnang

Josh Gachnang — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 03:10:09 +0000

Sorry to hear you Chromebook isn’t working out. I’ve had mine for a few weeks, and it certainly isn’t the best thing in the world, but it’s pretty damn good for the minimal stuff I do on it in Chrome OS. Great for taking notes in classes, but I have the same tab crashing issues. I installed Ubuntu on my Chromebook, and it has become much, much more useful, and is now my primary laptop. We’ll see if that lasts through my next CS classes though. 3G is fantastic. I used it to write a couple articles while I rode from Milwaukee to Chicago, all on the 100MB of data. Hope it works better for you when you get it back!