![]() It wasn't until I went to the office and plugged the device into newer Samsung and Sharp televisions that I felt a proper connection and everything worked without the cable. At least in my case, using the included foot-long extension cable was a must to get things working properly. Turns out that becomes an issue if you want to use the Chromebit with your television plugging the Chromebit straight into the HDMI ports of both TVs at home never gave me the comforting, tell-tale "thunk" of a solid connection, and the extra weight made for a disconcerting wobble whenever I got it in. See, the biggest downside to having a non-swiveling dongle is that all of its weight is just jutting out to one side. Speaking of cords, the Chromebit also ships with a foot-long HDMI extension cable that might come in handier than you think. ![]() Yep, that unfortunately means the micro-USB power port featured on the prototype has gotten the axe. Instead, what we have here is a Snickers bar-sized dongle with a matte black finish with a pinhole for a proprietary charger with an often-too-short five-foot cord instead. Well, I mean it mostly is, but the model I've been testing lacks the swiveling design we first saw back in March. (That sounds glib, but the only things I wound up storing on my Chromebit were a few screenshots.) Here's the rub: This isn't exactly the Chromebit we saw earlier this year. There's a quad-core Rockchip RK3288-C chipset inside, along with 2GB of RAM, an integrated Mali-T760 GPU and 16GB of internal storage for all the things you won't actually download. ![]() Remember the already-very-cheap Chromebook Flip? You could think of the Chromebit as a headless version of that.
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