The supplied AC adapter plugs into the USB-C port, which means you can't have both the power plug and an external monitor (via DisplayPort adapter) connected at the same time. The port loadout is minimal: one USB-C port, an audio jack, and a microSD card slot on the left edge, and one USB 3.0 Type-A port (plus a security lock slot) on the right. You won't find luxuries like a backlit keyboard or a fingerprint reader. The screen tilts almost all the way back, though its narrow viewing angles turn it into a color-shifted photo negative if you push it too far. The keyboard spans the full width of the system. Thick bezels surround the 11.6-inch, anti-reflective display, with a webcam centered in the top border. The Chromebook 4's plastic construction feels fairly hardy, without too much flex when you grasp the screen corners or press the keyboard deck.
The Samsung is slightly heavier (2.6 versus 2.42 pounds), but both are easy to toss into a bag, a backpack, or a briefcase. The silver-gray laptop (Platinum Titan, if you ask Samsung) measures 0.66 by 11.3 by 8 inches, closely matching the 11.6-inch Lenovo Chromebook 3 's 0.71 by 11.3 by 8.1 inches. The Samsung site offers a version with 6GB of memory and 64GB of flash for $279.99. Our test unit (model XE310XBA-K02US) is a $242.51 configuration with 64GB of storage. It combines a 1,366-by-768-pixel screen with a dual-core Intel Celeron N4000 processor, 4GB of RAM, and a skimpy 32GB of eMMC flash storage. Several Memory and Storage Choices The base model of the Chromebook 4 is $229.99 at Samsung's online store, though it would be more attractive at $199 (or, better yet, $149). It's not a delight, but it's a decent grab-and-go laptop if you're a student or simply have a strict budget. Besides being easier to carry, it has better battery life, and its low screen quality is less noticeable at the smaller size.
Both are bare-bones economy systems, but this Chromebook (starts at $229.99 $242.51 as tested) is a bit more successful than its bigger sibling. It's a compact Chromebook with an 11.6-inch screen versus a big 15.6-inch panel in the style of a desktop replacement. Looked at alongside the Samsung Chromebook 4+ we recently reviewed, the Samsung Chromebook 4, with no plus sign, is really minus 4-minus 4 inches, that is.
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