Samsung invades Surface territory with new Chromebook

NEW YORK--The blurry line between Android and Chromebooks is about to get blurrier. Exhibit A arrives with the Samsung Chromebook Pro that I've been checking out for a couple of weeks. Google calls this upcoming $549 convertible laptop/tablet, and a sibling model, the $440 Chromebook Plus, the first Chromebooks to be "designed for Android apps." Google worked closely with Samsung on the machines, which were initially showcased during last month's CES trade show. These Samsung models come with an embedded pen that you can use, among other purposes, to write or draw directly on the screen, a first for the Chromebook ecosystem.