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Last year, Acer made a move with their main flagship consumer Chromebook – the Spin 713 – that just flat-out worked. The 2020 Spin 713 improved on many of the things we were looking for versus the version that came before it, kept the price in-check, and made for one of my absolute favorite Chromebook […]
This week on The Chrome Cast, we spend the first half of the show sorting out what is going on in the confusion surrounding MediaTek’s latest Kompanio 1300T SoC announcement. While Kompanio chips have been included in low-end Chromebooks and will ship in two additional variations in other Chromebooks by the end of the year, […]
We’re just around the corner from the release of the new ASUS Chromebook Flip CX5400 and if I’m being frank about it, I’m pretty excited. I loved the Flip C302 and the Flip C434 was my daily driver for quite some time. Though I was let down by the price and overall package of the […]
I think it is fair to say that software testing doesn’t always go smoothly. Sure, with Chrome OS we have the Beta, Developer and Canary channels for experiments to happen in, but the user base in those pre-release channels is quite small when you look at the user base whole. Even though features trickle down […]
One of the defining characteristics of a Chromebook is the way users can add and remove accounts at will. Whether it is signing in a completely different, sandboxed user or adding additional Google accounts to a main, signed-in user, account management on Chrome OS is pretty flexible and very useful. With 10 years of handling […]
When it comes to system-level apps, Chromebooks don’t get a ton of surprises. Things like the Files app, Settings app, and camera tend to linger in the background, getting updates when needed and generally stay out of the way. For the camera app on Chrome OS, there’s even less of an incentive to really make […]
We’re still a bit out from the official arrival of the new ASUS Chromebook Flip CX5400, but it shouldn’t be much longer before this Chromebook begins hitting store shelves. With all the new ASUS hardware on the menu, it is easy to lose track of which is which, so let’s take a second for a […]
We’ve been hearing quite a bit about MediaTek, ARM, and Chromebooks for the past few months. And for good reason: MediaTek has grown by leaps and bounds over the past few years and their interest in Chromebooks has ballooned in that same time. With the MT8183 in devices like the Lenovo Chromebook Duet, MediaTek cemented […]
This week on The Chrome Cast, we discuss Google’s latest Chrome OS update bugs, how to fix them, and why in the end these bugs aren’t nearly as big of a deal on Chrome OS as they are on competing operating systems. For the second half of the show, we dig into all the new […]
If you use Chrome or Chrome OS, you’re likely no stranger to the built-in Dino game that greets you when your connection to the wider internet is busted. Whether its a downed router, a pre-connection hiccup, or on purpose, the Dino game in Chrome has been a constant time-killing companion for years now that generally […]
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If you’ve been following along this week, you likely have heard all about the issues with the incremental update Google pushed out to Chrome OS 91. It was a nasty bug and the only way forward was to figure out a way to get your Chromebook wiped and reverted to the previous version of Chrome […]
We’ve reviewed the ASUS CX5 (the 15-inch version) and in most ways, it is a fantastic machine. The 11th-gen Intel Tiger Lake Core i3 has more speed than nearly anything we’ve every tested, the 8GB of RAM is plenty, and the 128GB of NVMe storage allows the user plenty of fast, local storage to use. […]
