The Samsung Chromebox Series 3 are not known for their speed because of the less than impressive hardware configuration, but there has been a surprising spec upgrade, which some consumers were not aware of before ordering, so a nice little treat for them then. Not much has changed but we do know that there is the more impressive Intel i5 processor, although it’s still a generation behind the current crop of i5 chips.

Those of you who had or reserved the Google I/O edition might be feeling a little hard done by now because these only had the less than impressive Celeron, and while the second-generation i5 CPU is not know for their speed, it certainly outperforms the Celeron processor.

In the Samsungs Chromebox Series 3 2013 refresh it seems that there are no other changes, so there is still the 4GB of RAM, 16GB SSD, and the same port configuration as well. There does seem to be some confusion as to why Samsung would wish to put in a processor like that because it seems a bit of an overkill when you consider the fact that these small desktop PCs run Chrome OS, native client and also HTML5 apps.

However, there is some confusion because we had assumed that Samsung was going to refresh the new Chromebox Series 3 with a facelift but still keep the same spec configuration. Having said that, maybe there will now be two models, the one mentioned above as a high-end version and the new design (seen here) which could be the new low-cost model?

This is a bold change by Google. Some might say they are trying to police the way people use their keyboards. But Google have stated that the caps lock key isn’t entirely going away, as the newly adopted “Search” button can still be toggled to act as a CAPITAL LETTER FUNCTION.

If you hold the proper use of English in high regard, everyone knows that a CONSTANT USE OF CAPITAL LETTERS CAN BE VERY, VERY ANNOYING. That being said, over use of the under-case letter can be equally as bad. for instance at the start of sentences or without proper use of any full stops commas explanation marks or question marks what so ever and obviously the fact of over using the latter two aswell!!!!!!!! So what to do??????

Google say: –

“If you really need Caps Lock so you can post an INSIGHTFUL COMMENT ON YOUTUBE, click the wrench, click Settings, and then go to the System section to change the Modifier Key from a Search key to a Caps Lock key.”

Regardless of what Google do, it won’t stop people from raising their voices in cybercaps tones as we still have the handy shift key at our disposal. Maybe software implementation of auto-correcting could be put in place? Either that or we have a serious look at our education programs.

WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS BOLD MOVE BY GOOGLE??? Sorry, was just trying to emphasise. I wasn’t yelling at you, honest.

Source: Gizmodo