New Latest HP Chromebook 11-inch Laptop / 11.6-inch HD Display /Up to 15 Hour Battery Life

 New Laptop

Hey guys Mike here the Detroit Borg with
the HP Chromebook 11 this i the new 11
inch Chromebook from HP
there's also an
HP 14 but this is the cheapest one and
probably going to be the biggest volume
seller Chromebook but again this is kind of a compact lightweight inexpensive laptop hard by the Chrome OS you can the packaging here is quite nice made with Google so this was designed with Google's so HP has partnered with Google on this product so obviously this is the product that Google wants to highlight alright so let's just move these end

pieces and we can take a look at this

rather nice packaging they've done here

so it can see it's kind of a paper

product but it looks like it's a plastic

shell really nicely done

you have a little wrapper here to peel

off so let's go ahead and do that right

on the back you can see a new type of

computer again referring to Chrome OS

and there we go Google branding right on

the packaging alright so I'm just going

to lift this tab here and that removes

the plastic and you can see we have

these tabs right here to cut so let's go

ahead and do that alright so let's go

ahead and lift this lid pops off and

there we go there is our HP Chromebook

you see on the inside cover Chrome and

there it is and it's sort of cradle here

with this little plastic handle to pull

up to free it from its packaging so

there you go actually reminds me a lot

of the plastic MacBook the regular

MacBook that was discontinued last year

looks very sharp now on the inside we

find pretty basic lurcher here so hi

there let's get started all I have to do

is turn on your Chromebook pick your

wireless network and sign in with your

Google account or create one on the back

we have some of the apps are available

with Chrome OS so we have the web

browser obviously this is a computer

powered by the Chrome web browser we

create a new document so you can author

documents on this you also have video

chatting music you have Google Drive for

offline storage we also have instruction

manuals built into the OS and we have an

app store for the Chrome OS now on the

inside we'll find our wall charger and

something very interesting here is the

fact that this is powered and charged by

microUSB so you can charge your laptop

with micro USB so you can see our power

adapter

here can peel this open to reveal it so

there we have it we have the power

adapter and kind of this matte black

finish we also have this Quick Start

Guide just tells you a little bit about

setting up your Chromebook for the first

time how to charge it what the buttons

do that sort of thing we're going to

explore some of that here alright so

let's go ahead and unpack our HP

Chromebooks we have this little sleeve

here that fuels off the envelopes should

slide right off or it's going to be

stuck to the rubber on the inside here

so let's go ahead and break this open

all right slides right out alright so

let's go and take a look at the design

and as you can see to me it looks a lot

like a plastic MacBook it's got that

seams with a rounded edge to it on both

on the lid as well as the bottom here

you can see the front has more of a

taper toward the front

there is no thumbnail port to lift up

the lid so it kind of feels a little

hard to get in there to open up the lid

not too bad

along the back you'll find that chrome

strip this is a design feature that we

saw with a pixel now in this case is

just backlight is backlit by the

backlight of the display so it doesn't

have its own LED row in here like you

got with a Chromebook pixel along the

side you'll find your two USB 2.0 ports

no USB 3.0 ports in this case like he

got with a Samsung Chromebook and also

have your headphone jack your micro USB

charging port along with an LED

indicator up there and before charging

green for fully charged you also see

your hinge here which again looks a lot

like a MacBook so it's almost the full

width of the back you can see we have

that space here for operating the hinge

there are no vents or fans in this

design so it's a pretty quiet laptop

along the bottom you'll see the foot so

this is the rubber foot and as you can

see it's color keyed or color matched to

the sort of accent color that's are also

around the keyboard which I'll show you

now these are Google colors so we have

blue green yellow as well as red they

also have the black version so you can

get an all black Mile if you prefer

something like that down here you can

see made with Google with HP branding if

you look along the bottom you'll find

there are no screws here so it's a

pretty seamless design but this back

panel can come off but it's not really

meant to be pulled off by the user this

is a magnesium chassis behind this

plastic so there is a metal chassis

behind this plastic which supports all

the components inside alright so let's

go ahead and lift our lid here we should

find a piece of paper protecting the

keyboard from the screen so remove that

here looks like it's tucked into the

hinge there we go now on the insid

we'll find our blue accent color framing

the keyboard now the speakers are behind

the keyboard so you don't see any grills

or vents or anything like that we find

our multi-touch trackpad here you see

that the surface the palm rest surface

is a smooth glossy plastic now take a

look at our display you can see it's

framed in this sort of matte plastic and

that really was the first thing that

jumped out at me was the fact that we

have a sort of low grade plastic

surrounding this glossy display the

display is actually very similar to the

one on the MacBook Air this is an IPS

display good off excess viewing has a

resolution of 1366 by 768 same

dimensions 11.6 inches it's kind of a

wide screen we have our VGA camera up

here still not 720p just VGA we have an

ambient light sensor as well as our

microphone we have our chrome branding

down below so you see that looks pretty

nice now if you look really closely at

the hinge again that resembles a MacBook

in many ways you can see a full width

hinge here along with our bezel on the

side so if you close it off you can see

it's pretty tight you don't see any

grills down here so like the MacBook Air

which requires a fan you don't see any

grills sort of exposed when you open up

the hinge it's pretty tight alright so

it looks like it shipped to me with th

bag completely discharged so I'm going

to go ahead and connect my power supply

so you can see I get a little amber

light indicating that it's charging so

let's go ahead and see if we can boot it

up alright I'm going to hit the power

button now the great thing about a

Chromebook is the fact that it boots up

really quickly it's using flash storage

again 16 gigs of flash storage has 2

gigs of RAM this is running a cortex a15

dual-core processor clocked at 1.7

gigahertz again that's very similar I

think it's actually identical to the

outgoing Samsung Chromebook all right so

let's go ahead and set this up I can

select my language my keyboard and I can

select a network so let's go ahead to my

time capsule here now chrome updates

will automatically be installed when you

set up your laptop for the first time

all right so the next thing wants me to

do is choose a picture and I can see

that the picture from my Google+ profile

is already here but I can go ahead and

take a picture right now if I

but I'm just going to go with that one

click okay all right so if you're new to

the Chromebook here's your chance to

explore it now you get this tutorial

page full of guys so for example how to

add apps there is an app store here how

to work offline so you can work offline

although this is still pretty dependent

on Internet access so you can edit

documents offline you can read email

offline but most things require online

access because you're using a web

browser you can also print from here so

you can connect your printer and this

explains how to do that we also have for

example some keyboard and touchpad tips

and tricks the keyboard tip and trick is

pretty useful because for example there

is no caps lock key here so if you're

not familiar with Chromebooks in order

to enable caps lock you hit the alt

search buttons as you can see right here

there's some other tips here as well

such as taking screenshots or taking

partial screenshots because you don't

have something like print screen and

other keys were used to on Windows or

Mac laptops all right so let's go and

take a look at the basics of using your

Chromebook so in the lower right corner

you'll find your time your wireless

status your battery as well as your

account information if you click on that

you get two more settings so you can see

a quick view of your account so you

could sign out and sign in as a new user

which will transfer their account

information to this computer you also

have your wireless data so it takes you

to your wireless so you can sign in to a

different account your Bluetooth so you

can enable bluetooth and attach

accessories like a Bluetooth keyboard

you have your buying controls as well as

your settings so if you want to go there

settings just hit that takes you to your

full settings page and as you can see

takes you to the web browser so again

this is Chrome takes it to the Chrome

browser you can see it's a tab and

everything and you can see all your

bookmarks have synced across the top up

here as well so all I had to do was log

into my Google account and everything is

here very simple now you can see all the

options that are available to you

including the users you can go to

advanced settings to see more

information here so you can see date and

time you can select what time zone

you're in looks like it's chosen the

wrong time zone for me so let me go to

Eastern Standard Time you also have your

privacy settings Bluetooth passwords and

forms your web content such as font size

page zooms some I set it to hundred

percent here which is default you can

choose your language you can choose your

download location so you can download

files to this and change this look

so you do have a file browser on this

you have your manage certifications for

HTTP Google Cloud Print so you can

manage your cloud printing from here as

well now on startup I can also tell it

what to do so for example I can open a

new tab page I can have a continue where

I last left off which is what I prefer

or you can open a specific set of pages

and you can go ahead and set those pages

here I also have some accessibility

options you have power wash which will

remove all user accounts and reset your

chrome to a factory you also have reset

browser settings so you can go ahead and

reset that if you've changed all this

and you want to go back to the default

configuration now you can also manage

your extensions here so again this is

Chrome so you can install all of your

extensions and yes I do have ad block

you have a calculator you have the

camera app some other things I've

installed including chromecast so this

does chromecast tabs to your chromecast

on your TV as well now in our lower left

corner will find our launcher right now

I just have three apps or bookmarks if

you really want to call these apps are

pretty much bookmarks because they open

up inside the Chrome browser so you can

see we can launch Chrome as you hover

over it you can see that they light up

for you and tell you what they are so we

can launch Chrome opens up a window now

if we go ahead and launch Gmail it

basically opens up in another tab so let

me zoom out to show you this lets go

ahead and launch Gmail there you go and

we can also launch maps as well if we go

to our act row we can load more of our

apps so we can launch YouTube and we can

launch Google Drive we can continue

opening them all up now you can see up

here we can close individual tabs as

well now if you want to pin some of

these items to your launch you can do

that as well basically you use the

right-click gesture which is a two

finger tap so for example if I want

YouTube to appear on my launcher just

right-click and I can say pin to

launcher there it is now it's in my long

term I also have other options here so

for example I could have it as a pin tab

I can open it up as a separate window or

I can open up maximize so all of these

are options which you can select and

they stay fixed no matter where you are

so for example if I select open has

maximized every time I open up YouTube

it will maximize the window so let me go

ahead and close this tab for YouTube try

opening up YouTube now there you go

fills up the entire window if I don't

want that behavior to happen all the

time

I can say open as I

tab now something unique to the

Chromebook experience is the way windows

are managed so if you go up here you can

see you can close your window or you can

go up here to sort of either left

justify your window right justify it or

minimize it so if you go to minimize it

kind of takes it back to your dock you

go back to your dock you can maximize

that window you can also just hit that

box and it's where the min minimizes it

enough so you can see your desktop here

so you can basically get that standard

windows experience now we do have an app

store here so if we go to the app store

you can see amps optimized for the

Chrome OS now you can see all of the

apps available here and they're broken

down into their respective categories so

we have Google Drive and as you can see

here if you look in the upper left

corner you see that check mark that

indicates I already have it installed so

you can see other things I haven't

installed including outlook so there is

an outlook version for Chrome OS Spotify

sumo paint Kindle Cloud Reader you can

see lots and lots of things here

optimized for the Chrome OS so let's go

ahead and install something here let's

go ahead and use Gmail offline so there

is an offline app for Gmail which I

haven't tried yet so let's go ahead and

install that so we're going to confirm

that ad and as you can see it's added to

my app drawer so if I launch that here

so basically this pre loads all of my

Gmail this means that I can be

disconnected from my wireless network

and still be able to click on all of my

email to view it now if you have open

tabs and you want to jump to them you

just tap on one of your icons below here

of course you do have to have them in

your launcher and as you close them you

can see that the light underneath the

icon disappears so for example if I

close the YouTube tab that goes out if I

close the map tab that goes out and if 

close the Gmail tab that also goes out

now for the most part the Chromebook

keyboard is pretty familiar so we have

our volume controls up here including

mutes we have our power button up in the

upper right corner we have our screen

brightness controls up here now we have

our Escape key here and we have these

navigation keys for for example going

backward or forwards in our web history

we also have this refresh button now we

have two buttons here one is for

maximizing your window and another one

is for tabbing between your open windows

now the trackpad is a pretty good size

and we have a two finger gesture to

scroll or that two finger gesture to

right-click on an item now we have a

single click button here so we don't

have a left-hand or right-hand click

side it's just one

single click here and it clicks more

toward the bottom than the top now this

google themed light strip across the

back this is becoming a google chrome

trademark you'll see this on the chrome

pixel now with the chrome pixel it's

dedicated light bar it actually has its

own LEDs and it's able to change its own

color do a whole light show on that sort

of thing this is just backlit by the

display and it's actually kind of hard

to see unless you have the lights off

once you turn the lights off you can see

it so it's kind of dim here but it's

kind of nice to have it now of course

with Google we have Google Docs so if

you need a word processor or spreadsheet

app that's built in of course that

launches within the web browser so it's

not a pre-installed app and you do need

to have access to Internet in order for

this to work now we have a host of media

options from Google including play music

as well as movies so if we go to Google

Play Movies we can launch that again it

launches in a web browser not a

dedicated app alright so we can go ahead

and play back our video we can go tof ull screen mode play back a video isr eally smooth with no frame dropping and

the speakers are superb but much bettert han I expected

excellent stereo sounds coming out

from the keyboarda ll right so let's go and take a look att The performance of the web browser nowo of course this is Chrome so it does have flash so you can use flash on this

laptop

alright so I've loaded the version as

you can see performance isn't