As you can imagine, I made frequent use of the "Ctrl and plus sign" keyboard shortcut. In particular, I struggled with things like Gmail and the Spotify web player - sites where there were just too many lines of text for me to be able to read without squinting. Those extra pixels came in especially handy for my marathon Netflix and Hulu streaming sessions, though I confess my eyes couldn't always handle the tiny text on regular webpages. The difference in sharpness is immediately noticeable, as it is every time you graduate from a regular HD laptop to a full HD one. Although the Chromebook 2 still comes standard with a 1,366 x 768 screen (the price there is $250), you now have the option of getting it with a full HD, 1,920 x 1,080 display instead (this is the $330 model). Now that we've gotten that out of the way, let's jump to the thing you're all most interested in: the display. Surely there's something Toshiba can do to ensure that gestures like "tap to click" work a bit more precisely. One time, for instance, I meant to click something from a website, but instead ended up opening random links from a different part of the page. The touchpad, meanwhile, is mostly functional, but I did occasionally lose control of the cursor. In particular, I often had to type my 12-digit Google password several times, unless I went out of my way to peck it out v e r y s l o w l y.
The keyboard also remains unchanged it's spacious, but the flat buttons don't always register your keystrokes. That's about the same weight as Samsung's Chromebook 2, though the Acer Chromebook 13 comes in at 3.31 pounds, which means you could definitely do worse as far as heaviness goes. While the two models look similar, though, this one is a bit thinner and lighter, coming in at 2.95 pounds and 0.76 inch thick (down slightly from 3.3 pounds/0.8 inch on the original). Even the port selection is the same: two USB connections (one 3.0, one 2.0), a full-sized HDMI socket, a dual mic/headphone jack and, yes, the all-important SD card slot. Once again, too, the screen measures 13 inches, although the footprint is slightly smaller than it used to be. As before, it's fashioned out of gray, textured plastic, with a bumpy dot pattern that does a good job masking scratches and fingerprints, even if it is a little cheap-looking. The Chromebook 2 might be Toshiba's best Chromebook yet, but it actually looks suspiciously like last year's model. You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu.
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