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Chrome OS conundrum: can one survive with a browser-only Chromebook?With Samsung’s Series 5 Chromebook now on sale in the US and UK and the Acer AC700 joining shortly, doubts have been raised over whether one can survive by Chrome OS alone. This largely this depends on individual usage patterns, Internet availability and applications. Can you survive with a Chromebook?

As the name implies, Chrome OS finds its bread and butter in the Chrome browser. Unlike conventional operating systems, a Chromebook lives and breaths in a full screen browser without the slightest inkling of a minimize, maximize or close button.

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Samsung Chromebook teardown shocker: materials alone are worth £196The team over at IHS iSuppli has given the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook the formal teardown treatment. Tucked inside the 12.1-inch web-connected laptop is a dual-core Atom processor, 2GB of memory and a 16GB solid state drive (SSD).

“The Samsung Series 5 Chromebook is every bit a full-sized notebook PC,” said Wayne Lam, senior analysts, competitive analysis, at IHS iSuppli. After hearing the components (other than the dual-core Atom processor) are typical of a standard laptop, the cost of the parts is a little easier to swallow — nearly £196 before factoring in the manufacturing cost.

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Finally, the Google Chrome OS hardware that we’ve been harping on about for what seems like since the Cretaceous era has finally arrived. The Samsung Series 5 looks great and as our Samsung Series 5 first impressions concludes it’s pretty much the closest a laptop gets to the ease-of-use of the iPad 2. But there are some inevitable downsides that Google isn’t going to mention much…

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Finally. The first ever Google Chromebook laptop has just been officially outed: say hello to the Samsung Series 5, the first laptop designed entirely around Google’s cloud-based Chome OS.

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Wondering what’s so special about the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook? And what exactly Google’s Chome OS is all about? Well, allow us to present this achingly trendy – and rather idiot-proof – video which neatly makes sense of Google’s Windows-buster…

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