The bottom right bar houses the time, Wi-Fi and battery status. If you click the square where the Start button appeared on Windows 7 notebooks, you can see all your apps and the app store. Then you're greeted by a blank screen with a few icons on the lower left bar. After you boot, which only took us 8 seconds, the system asks for your Google account password. None of the selfies offered much detail.Ĭlick to EnlargeGoogle's Chrome operating system is amazingly simple. A headshot taken in our office looked washed out, as the sun reflected off our pasty white skin. The notebook's 720p webcam isn't stellar. On the left edge is a USB 2.0 port and a lock slot. Along the right side you'll find a power port, an HDMI port, a headphone jack, an SD card slot and a speedy USB 3.0 port. The Acer C720p got similarly warm, while the Dell and Toshiba Chromebooks stayed cool.Ĭlick to EnlargeThe ASUS Chromebook C200M comes with the ports you'll need. While both were below our comfort threshold of 95 degrees, the underside reached exactly that threshold temperature. The touchpad is comfortably larger than that on the Dell Chromebook 11 (4 x 2.25 inches) or the Acer Chromebook C720p (3.5 x 2 inches), but smaller than the one on the Toshiba Chromebook (4 x 3.75 inches).Īfter streaming a Hulu video for 15 minutes, we measured a temperature of 86 degrees Fahrenheit on the Chromebook's touchpad, and a bit warm 93 degrees between the G and H keys. Luckily, that's easy to adjust in the settings. The 4.1 x 2.4-inch, buttonless touchpad was responsive, perhaps too much so as it went zipping around the screen at a pace that made us a bit dizzy. Not surprisingly for a budget notebook, the keyboard isn't backlit. These come in very handy by providing all sorts of shortcuts, including one for grabbing screenshots. On our typing test, we averaged 63 words per minute with 97-percent accuracy, which is exactly in line with our average.Īs a Chromebook, the C200M also features a dedicated row along the top with Chrome OS-specific keys for brightness and volume control, while also sporting Refresh, Forward and Back buttons. The keys, which offered a nice deep 2mm of vertical travel and required a satisfying 65 grams of force to depress, were springy and comfortable. By comparison, the Toshiba Chromebook and Dell Chromebook 11 both reached a blaring 94 decibels, and the Acer C720p hit 91 dB.Ĭlick to EnlargeThe island-style, black keys on the C200M are nicely sized and spaced, creating a comfortable typing experience. That is below the category average of 86. The C200M hit 79 dB on our audio test, which involves playing a tone and measuring it from 13 inches away. While the audio sounded pleasant, it was loud enough to fill a small conference room, but not much more. We had no complaints about the subtleties of the chimes and string instruments in the background of Sinead O'Connor's rendition of "Black Coffee." Also, Jace Everett's booming bass came through with chilling vibrancy on "Bad Things." The screen displayed colors with a Delta E accuracy rating of 10.7 (0 is perfect), which is far above the 6.6 average for ultraportables.ĭual speakers sit along the bottom left and right edges, which amplifies the sound when the C200M is on a hard, flat surface. The ship's edges weren't particularly sharp, and we observed some jumpiness in the video.Īccording to our color tests, the C200M can display only 59.7 percent of the sRGB color gamut (closer to 100 percent is better). Colors started to reverse from about 40 to 45 degrees.ĭuring an HD trailer of "Guardians of the Galaxy," explosions and nebulas appeared muted instead of awe inspiring on the C200M. But that's dimmer than the 251 nits average for most ultraportables. At 220 lux, the C200M is brighter than the Toshiba Chromebook's measly 183 lux. Click to EnlargeThe ASUS Chromebook C200M certainly isn't the brightest bulb in the box.
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