Samsung’s Galaxy Chromebook is everything you’d expect from the maker of some of the nicest Android phones on the market: premium hardware, custom adapted to the needs of this device. The fanless design is one-of-a-kind, with the chipset inside, and the close integration with the software makes for a smoother user experience than most Chromebooks.

Unfortunately, this great piece of hardware suffers from many of the same limitations all Chromebooks suffer from: ChromeOS. It’s also the opposite of nearly all other Chromebooks in that it’s significantly more expensive.

The Galaxy Chromebook feels like a premium machine, and it is, especially in the Chromebook world. Attention to detail is apparent from the minute you pull it out of the box. The sleek aluminum body, high-resolution 4K AMOLED screen, and 10th-generation Intel Core i5 processor have far more in common in high-end Windows machines than other Chromebooks. It also comes in either a sedate gray or an aptly named “fiesta red.”

A built-in stylus, fingerprint reader, support for Wi-Fi 6, up to 16 GB of RAM, and up to one terabyte of storage space (plus a MicroSD card slot) round out the high-end specs. There’s also a digital dual-array microphone that makes working with Google Assistant voice commands easier than many other devices I’ve tried. That’s right—you can control this Chromebook by yelling at it from across the room just as well as you can control Google’s various smart home speakers.

Did I mention this is the thinnest and lightest Chromebook you’ll find? It’s only 9.9 mm thick (that’s just a little more than the 8.1-mm iPhone 11 Pro). And it definitely has the sharpest, brightest screen I’ve ever used with ChromeOS (it’s the first Chromebook with an AMOLED screen). That AMOLED sharpness comes at a cost in battery life though—the Galaxy Chromebook managed six and half hours in our standard battery drain test (playing a looped 1080p video at 75 percent brightness). Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 3 lasted around 8 hours and the Dell XPS 13 hit 12 hours in similar tests.

But if you turn down the brightness—and you can afford to, since the screen is so sharp—you can coax a full day of use out of the battery. Normally this is the part where I would say something like, “assuming you’re doing ordinary tasks like browsing the web, checking email, messaging on Slack,” but this is a Chromebook so that’s all you’re going to be doing.

This is unquestionably a nice laptop. You are paying for what you get though. At $999 the Galaxy Chromebook is an expensive piece of kit, and one that’s never going to run, for instance, Adobe Photoshop, videogames like Overwatch, or other popular desktop applications.