It's been a few years since Samsung took a crack at making a premium Chromebook. In 2020, the company released the first Galaxy Chromebook, a 999 laptop with a gorgeous 4K OLED screen that barely lasted five hours away from a charger. The company fixed some issues with its 2021 model, which had a more pedestrian screen and a thicker design while costing 300 less -- a fair compromise given that battery life was significantly better. Since then, Google has also launched the Chromebook Plus initiative, which aims to standardize Chromebook specs to give people a more consistent experience. And now, Samsung has released its first entry to that lineup: the Galaxy Chromebook Plus. It reminds me a little bit of the 15-inch MacBook Air, though its appearance is unmistakably Samsung.

It's not often that a laptop gets a new button added to the keyboard. Windows laptops were treated to this rarity recently when Microsoft added the Copilot button, allowing users to quickly access the company's artificial intelligence chatbot with a button press. It's now the Chromebook's turn, but Google isn't introducing a button to simply summon its own AI assistant. Instead, "Quick Insert" offers helpful tools contextually relevant to what's on the page. This new button--not exclusive to new devices--is part of a broader update rolling out to Chromebooks and Chromebook Plus laptops this month bringing several new AI features to spruce up their capabilities.