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It feels like we’ve been talking about better Bluetooth, improved Bluetooth, or fixing Bluetooth on Chromebooks for far too long. We have our suspicions that Bluetooth is going to get a major fix in the form of Bluetooth 5.0 in future Chromebooks as we’ve previously reported. That fix looks to include another Bluetooth protocol update […]
We haven’t talked about the ‘Hatch’ family of Chromebooks that much in the past few weeks. After months of adding features, spinning off more devices in development, and generally being recognized as the torch bearer for the new generation of Chromebooks, we’re reaching the point where ‘Hatch’-based devices are nearing a release point. While we […]
I don’t know about you, but I really enjoy the name Hatch Family. There’s just a nice ring to it. Last year’s unibuild family name ‘Nami’ never really caught on as we were all a bit too focused on ‘Nocturne’ becoming what we now know as the Pixel Slate. Though Gabriel always had a hunch […]
As we get closer and closer to figuring out exactly what ‘Hatch’ is, we learn more and more about the capabilities of this unibuild board. As we saw just in this last week, ‘Hatch’ is responsible for four total baseboards, including ‘Kohaku’, ‘Helios’ and ‘Kindred’ which we just met recently. With these four boards (and […]
In the history of Chromebook devices since the original Samsung Chromebook Plus launched, there have been a few Chromebooks that leveraged a screen similar to what we see on the Pixelbook. That screen – for those unaware – is bright, colorful, and 3:2 in its aspect ratio and has been used on the Samsung Chromebook […]
More and more details are arriving for the upcoming Chromebook known only as ‘Hatch’ at this point. We already knew it is being based on the Comet Lake 9th-gen Intel chipset and that it will have a fingerprint scanner, but today we’ve found full evidence that ‘Hatch’ will also employ a garaged stylus.
After seeing the new Acer Chromebook 714 and 715 at Acer’s event this week, we can finally use the plural Chromebooks when talking about Chrome OS devices with fingerprint scanners. Up to last week, we’d only had the Pixel Slate as the lone Chromebook with biometric support. Now with the addition of the Acer 715 […]
I’ve repeatedly said that the large collection of ‘Hatch’-based Chromebooks (think Samsung Galaxy Chromebook, ASUS Flip C436, etc.) would only grow as 2020 wore on. We’re not even to the point where the first of these Chromebooks based on the ‘Hatch’ baseboard are up for purchase and already more are being added to the pile. […]
There’s no denying that this year’s CES was a big show for Chromebook users. We saw the introduction of the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook, the ASUS Chromebook Flip C436, the Lenovo Chromebook Duet tablet, and the Lenovo Flex 5. Of these four Chromebooks, three of them are what we would consider the torch-bearers of this new […]
Last week, at CES 2020, we had the unique opportunity to spend some hands-on time with Lenovo’s latest convertible Chromebook. The Chromebook Flex 5 joined the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook and the ASUS Chromebook Flip C436 as the first official devices to feature 10th Gen Intel Comet Lake processors. This is a big deal for the […]
We spent some quality time with the fine folks at Lenovo this week but the highly-anticipated Chromebook Duet Tablet wasn’t the only device awaiting us when we arrived for our meeting. We had plenty of reasons to believe that Lenovo had a next-get Comet Lake device in the works and as we arrived in Vegas, […]
As we anticipated, three new Chromebooks have emerged from this year’s CES show and the doors have only been open for a day. In the mix of all the madness and excitement surrounding the Galaxy Chromebook by Samsung, Lenovo snuck in a second device that we expected to see just not necessarily here at CES. […]
