On this week’s episode of The Chrome Cast, we are looking at Google’s now-confirmed hardware event that is to be held on October 15th in the great city of New York. From Pixel 4 leaks to Google Nest Minis to Pixelbook 2, there’s news left and right rolling out on an almost daily cadence. While […]
Continue ReadingGoogle ‘Friends Ross’ and if you’re a fan of the show, just enjoy yourself
Just as Google is wont to do, they have gone and added customized search results for yet another popular entity: Friends. Though the internet is continuously split on whether or not ‘Friends’ is a worthwhile show to keep around or just a 90’s relic that needs to be removed from the common consciousness, there’s clearly […]
Continue ReadingYou can now enable Chrome OS 78’s lockscreen media control widget
We wrote about the upcoming lock screen media controls coming to Chrome OS back in July and filed the feature away since that point. Don’t get me wrong, I love the idea of being able to see what is playing on my Chromebook as I approach it from the lock screen, but after seeing the […]
Continue ReadingOfficial ASUS Chromebook Flip C433 landing page offers more insights, raises more questions
The ride that the ASUS Chromebook C433 has been on over the past couple weeks has been quite the wild one. From an out of the way database find by our own Gabriel Brangers to the FCC filing and leaked retail images that appeared shortly after, this device went from non-existent to fully-leaked in a […]
Continue ReadingChrome OS 77 is bringing a big upgrade to the Files App
In a project that is a bit over a year in the making, Google is updating the way the Files App on Chrome OS works in the background, and it should make for a much better experience across the board for users. Though this is a relatively significance back-end upgrade, you’d be hard pressed to […]
Continue ReadingNew HP Chromebook x360 12 appears pre-launch with better looks, better processor, and 3:2 screen
I’m going to just get this out there right off the bat: I was harsh on the HP x360 a couple years ago. Not the x360 14 that I’m quite fond of, but the smaller 11.6-inch version that was made for school students. The same model, as it would turn out, that my daughter uses […]
Continue ReadingChrome OS 78 will enable more advanced external drive options
While Chrome OS works with a wide variety of file system formats, that isn’t the case across the board for every operating system. Old versions of Windows, for instance, won’t work with the newer NTFS files system but Windows 10 supports FAT32, exFAT and NTFS. MacOS doesn’t fully work with NTFS out of the box […]
Continue ReadingPossible Pixelbook 2 ‘Atlas’ photos leak ahead of October 15th Google Event
Well, its that time of year again, isn’t it? With Google’s yearly hardware event now officially slated for October 15th, it seems like we should be hearing more about the presumed release of a Pixelbook successor we expect to see at the event. As we get closer and closer to the event and more and […]
Continue ReadingSave $150 – $200 on the Samsung Chromebook Plus V2 or HP Chromebook x360
Sure, we know it is getting closer and closer to the next best thing hitting shelves this fall when it comes to Chromebooks. We’re expecting a flurry of MediaTek-powered, Snapdragon 845-powered, and 10th-gen Intel-powered Chromebooks before the end of the year, but we don’t have dates on any of that just yet. We know that […]
Continue ReadingGoogle’s October 15 hardware event is now confirmed
Only a week ago, we wrote about a leak from Evan Blass (@evleaks) that showcased a photo of the Pixel 4 with a pretty glaring date on the lock screen. In moves just like this in the past, Google and other hardware manufacturers have used not-so-subtle Easter eggs in the display dates on hardware images […]
Continue ReadingSamsung’s upcoming Chromebook Pro V2 ‘Kohaku’ shows up in Geekbench
We’ve been tracking the Chromebook known only as ‘Kohaku’ for many months at this point. Based on a number of reasons like Samsung email addresses all over the commits, the device containing a Samsung-made battery, multiple references back to ‘Caroline’ (the Samsung Chromebook Pro), and references to a removable stylus, we’re quite sure ‘Kohaku’ is […]
Continue ReadingNew Chrome OS UI update proves Google is far from done with Chrome OS tablets
It wasn’t long ago that Google decided to announce to the world that it was getting out of the tablet hardware game all together. Doing this within 7 months of releasing a tablet (the Pixel Slate) feels like an odd move, but as I’ve explained in that linked video above, I’m not terribly upset about […]
Continue ReadingHow to fix Chrome OS 76 bug that blocks Android apps from internet access
Just this week we began receiving reports of Chromebook devices losing internet connectivity only within Android apps. To be fair, we’ve seen this bug arise in the past and it was generally quick to be squashed and only present in Beta and Dev Channels of Chrome OS. This time around, however, the bug is firmly […]
Continue ReadingThe Chrome Cast 27: Google’s hardware event, Pixel 4 & ASUS Flip C433 leaks
On this week’s episode, we talk through leaks and how the sheer amount of them around the Pixel 4 have made Google’s upcoming hardware event a bit of an interesting proposition. At this point, what are they even going to say when they get on stage? And, with all these Pixel 4 leaks, it almost […]
Continue ReadingAcer Chromebook 714 Review
Back in May of this year, we took a trip up to New York to take part in Acer’s annual hardware event and got to spend a bit of time with the Acer Chromebook 714 and 715. We came away from the event pretty impressed by this new duo of Chromebooks namely because of two […]
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