For this episode of The Chrome Cast podcast, we have an interview with Kevin Ngo – Product Lead for the Works with Chromebook certification program at Google. Kevin was kind enough to chat with us on short notice and, of course, we are always happy to chat with anyone from Google. Kevin started at Google […]
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‘Kevin’ Is The Samsung Chromebook Pro: Up For Pre-Order: UPDATED
You read that right! The long-talked-about Chromebook, known only as ‘Kevin’ up to this point, has broken through. Available for pre-order right now from Adorama and outfitted with a beautiful landing page that shows it off, the Samsung Chromebook Pro (remember that little survey?) looks to be all we’ve come to expect up to this […]
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Google’s 10/4 Event: Why We May See ‘Cave’ – Not ‘Kevin’
As I’ve said before, it is firmly Chromebook Silly Season. The sheer number of new devices showing up in the commits bears witness to this fact, as does the near-endless speculation surrounding them. We previously speculated ‘Kevin’ could be announced at Google’s 10/4 Event. Emphasis on the ‘could’. We’ve also talked a bit about Samsung, […]
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New Chromebook ‘Kevin’ Could Be Both Samsung and Pixel
Over the past few days there’s been a bit of back and forth concerning the actual manufacturer of ‘Kevin’. Around here, we lean towards Samsung being behind the production of ‘Kevin’. While not 100% conclusive, our findings thus far seem to strongly suggest that ‘Kevin’ belongs to Samsung. In light of that revelation, though, a […]
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New Chromebook ‘Kevin’ Likely Being Made By Samsung
Since our coverage of the much-anticipated Chromebook ‘Kevin’ began hitting the web, one really big question has eluded us. Who is making ‘Kevin’? Today, we think we have pretty clear proof that Samsung will be producing ‘Kevin’ and we are super-excited to share it with you!
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Could We See A ‘Kevin’ Pixel Announced at Google’s Upcoming 10/4 Event?
First off, let us file this firmly under speculation and speculation only. While we love to dig for hard facts and make our news about uncovering upcoming Chrome OS devices and services, sometimes we just have a feeling about things. You can call it a hunch. A gut feeling. Whatever works best for you. Any […]
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New Chromebook ‘Kevin’ Likely Release Date Window
With all we know about the upcoming Chromebook ‘Kevin’, there are a few puzzles left to solve. While there’s a chance that some of those pieces will remain a mystery until we hear an official announcement and/or see a product shipping, we are still searching like crazy for any nugget of info we can find. […]
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Lenovo Yoga Book Line Likely Coming To Chrome OS Too – Is This ‘Kevin’?
Deservedly, there’s been a good bit of media surrounding Lenovo’s announcement of the Yoga Book, a product that has been 3 years in the making according to Jeff Meredith. He just so happens to be the GM & VP of Lenovo’s Android Chrome Computing Business Group. A crazy-long title, sure, but one that holds some […]
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‘Kevin’ Officially Outed As 360-Degree Convertible
We’ve posted quite a bit about ‘Kevin’ and made a few assumptions based on the commits in the past. One of those assumptions was the fact that it looked apparent that ‘Kevin’ will be a 360-degree, convertible device. While we hadn’t seen any hard evidence for this, it seemed likely.
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Upcoming Chromebook ‘Kevin’ To Use a Bright 12.3-Inch Display
So, here we are again! 3 days, 3 new tidbits of information circling the upcoming release of the Chromebook known only as ‘Kevin.’ Though we still have no details on release dates, more and more info keeps surfacing about the specific specs ‘Kevin’ will be toting on the day it gets released to the public. […]
Continue ReadingUpcoming Chromebook ‘Kevin’ To Feature Wacom Active Stylus/Digitizer
Another day, another tidbit about our favorite mystery Chromebook. While what we know thus far about ‘Kevin’ can be found in this prior post, each new detail brings us a bit closer to knowing what this Chromebook will be.
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It’s been a few weeks since we’ve seen anything new or eye-catching in regards to the device only known as ‘Kevin’. What we know up to this point is that ‘Kevin’ will: be a convertible device have stylus support (likely stow-able) be outfitted with the newly-released Rockchip RK3399 SoC have GPS support We can now […]
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Could This Be ‘Kevin’? New Convertible 360 Hinge Chromebook Coming ‘Very Very Soon’
Speculate a bit more with us, will you? The image above is from a mystery Chromebook that a fellow Google+ user claims to have in his possession. (the post has since been taken down) Just this morning, a slightly shrouded Google+ post surfaced with some very, very interesting claims. And they match up quite well with […]
Continue ReadingNew Convertible Chromebook ‘Kevin’ In Early Production: What We Know So Far
If you haven’t already, take a look at the other three posts this week regarding the new Rockchip 3399 processor and pen input coming to Chrome OS (and it’s follow-up). They will give you some insight before reading this post. All of those Chromium commits referenced above were centered around a testing baseboard codenamed ‘Gru’ […]
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StarTech’s USB-C Docking Station gives me the 3 monitor Chromebook desktop I’ve been begging for
Contents Anyone who knows me will know that while I missed the Chromebox boom and craze, I’m addicted to the idea of daily driving my Chromebook as a desktop workstation. It can’t run Unreal Engine 5 just yet, and may not for quite a while, but I can do pretty much everything else on it […]
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