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Google Chromebook laptop: What you need to know before buying

Samsung's Chromebook offers a new approach in functionality.

Samsung's Chromebook offers a new approach in functionality. It presents all of the user experience in websites, apps, games and productivity tools, through Google's Chrome browser. This streamlines things a bit, at the cost of standalone apps. AP video. (July 13) (July 13, 2011 1:48 PM)

Google is dangling a low-priced laptop computer in front of consumers as rivals Microsoft and Apple prepare to release their latest gadgets.

The lightweight computer unveiled Thursday will sell for $249 and is being made in a partnership with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., which also makes smartphones and tablet computers that run on Google's Android software.

The laptop will run on an...

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