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It isn’t difficult to find a budget Chromebook if you take five minutes to hit up Amazon, eBay or even your local Walmart. For $200, you will generally be getting a Braswell device that is rapidly approaching End of Life and often times will only come with 2GB of RAM and minimal other hardware. Thankfully, […]
As we expected, Acer brought along some new Chrome devices to the Next@Acer event here in Brooklyn, NY. We’ll be getting some hands-on shortly and will bring you video coverage of our initial impressions but in the meantime, here’s a closer look at Acer’s Enterprise-focused Chromebook 714 and 715. Acer Chromebook 714 & 715 Acer’s […]
We’re back in New York for the annual Next@Acer event and we’d love for you to join us as Acer unveils their latest products. Last year saw the debut of the Acer Chromebook 13 and Spin 13 along as well as the premium variation of Acer’s popular Chromebook 15. While Acer premiers a variety of […]
AMD’s entrance into the Chrome OS space may not have carried with it the fanfare many of us were hoping for but the education-focused devices unveiled at CES 2019 were a smart play by manufacturers looking to give AMD a foothold in a market dominated almost entirely by Intel. The low-powered AMD APUs found in […]
Google’s Cloud Platform has evolved immensely over the past decade and this year’s Cloud Next conference could potentially usher in a profusion of new features and possibly some never-before-seen products. Google will kick off the conference today with the Day 1 Keynote at 9 a.m. PDT and we want you to join us to chat […]
Right now is a great time to spruce up your smart home with deals dropping left and right. Rakuten seller Altatac has a great deal on a Nest thermostat and Google Home Mini bundle but if you’re looking to pick up a smart display, they’ve got a killer deal on Google’s own Home Hub as […]
Times they are a changin’ and soon, the automated smart home will be standard fare for the average U.S. consumer. If you’ve started dabbling with Google Assistant-enabled products and you’re ready to take the next step, this deal from Rakuten is a great place to start. The daily deal includes a third-gen Nest learning thermostat […]
Undoubtedly, the question we field most often is “which Chromebook is best for (fill in the blank) price. Most of the time, that’s a difficult query to answer because there are a lot of great Chromebooks out there and it’s not hard to find a sale if you’re will to dig around. Today, however, I […]
If you’re in the market for the latest Chrome desktop solution and you want the most bang for your buck, CTL has a deal for you. Regularly priced at $699, you can steal the Core i7 CTL Chromebox CBX1 for $629. Comparable boxes from other OEMs will run you as much as $750. The CTL […]
With Cloud Next ’19 on the horizon and Google’s annual I/O developer conference headed our way in a few weeks, the Chromium team is working hard to polish the Crostini project that brought official Linux app support to Chrome OS. Just this week, Robby uncovered a commit that will bring microphone support to Linux apps […]
For many users, Google’s Crostini project that brings native Linux apps support to Chrome OS is still a ways off from being a viable solution. We are seeing more and more updates that are giving Crostini the tools needed to forgo dual-booting a Linux distro but until full GPU support becomes a reality, Crouton is […]
I will admit, using the Google Assistant on my Chromebook was an intriguing idea when the work was first discovered more than a year and a half ago. I will also concede that I now use the Assistant on my Chromebook exactly zero percent of the time. For me, the thought of my Chromebook being […]
