As we approach Prime Day for 2019, all retailers are beginning to take note. With an influx of people looking for great deals, many online stores are trying to take advantage of the general ‘buy now’ mentality surrounding Amazon’s yearly discount day, and Google is no exception to this.
Continue ReadingNew Chromebook ‘Kled’ Shows Up To Join The Expanding ‘Hatch’ Family
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 […]
Continue ReadingThe Chrome Cast 17: The New Chromebooks Are Coming!
Based on that title, you can probably guess what we talked about this week. From all angles, the last part of 2019 looks primed to deliver a vast army of Chrome OS devices on every front. We have ‘Hatch’-based Chromebooks, Snapdragon 845 Chromebooks, MediaTek 8183 Chromebooks, and maybe even AMD flagships coming in the next […]
Continue ReadingChromebook Lock Screen Getting A Media Control Widget
The lockscreen for Chromebooks hasn’t been shown much love in the past handful of updates to Chrome OS. Sure, PIN unlock, a note taking shortcut and a blurred background were added along the way, but little has really changed for the lock screen over the years that Chromebooks have been on the market.
Continue ReadingHP Chromebook 14 Review: The Cost of Affordability
AMD-powered Chromebooks are a bit of a new breed. No, the hardware isn’t different and the operating system is still the same, but under the hood, these Chromebooks are being powered by a completely new player in the Chrome OS space. AMD is no stranger to personal computing devices, however, and they’ve been a standard […]
Continue ReadingNew ‘Hatch’-Based Chromebooks ‘Helios’, ‘Kindred’ & ‘Kohaku’ Will Be Very Powerful
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 […]
Continue ReadingHow To Get A Nest Home Hub For $50 If You’re A YouTube TV User
If you aren’t already a YouTube TV user, let me tell you, you are missing out. Since signing up the minute it came to my area of the US, I’ve loved cutting the cord and relying on YouTube TV as our families main way of consuming television content. The unlimited DVR, multi-account support, Chromecast support […]
Continue ReadingWe’re Finally Beginning To See More Snapdragon Chromebooks
Talk about long in the tooth. We just did the math and it has been a nearly-unbelievable 18+ months since the first signs of Snapdragon silicon showed up in the Chromium Repositories signaling the emergence of the first Qualcomm-powered Chromebook. Don’t get me wrong, it was a great day and we were all insanely excited […]
Continue ReadingUsing 4K Monitors With Chromebooks: What You Need To Know [VIDEO]
In general, Chrome OS is a plug-and-play situation when it comes to external accessories. Monitors, keyboards, mice, trackpads, USB drive, etc. all tend to ‘just work’ when you plug them in. No drivers to install and no setup really needed. With Chrome OS, it either works or it doesn’t. That applies to everything except 4K […]
Continue ReadingThe Chrome Cast 16: Google Possibly Making a More Affordable Pixelbook
This week on The Chrome Cast, our discussion time circled mainly around Google, Pixelbook, and what a new commit in the repositories could mean for the future of the Pixelbook line from an affordability standpoint. With the removal of NVMe signaling a more affordable PIxelbook, could the Pixel 3a mindset end up permeating into Google’s […]
Continue ReadingChromebook Virtual Desks Get The Feature I’ve Been Waiting For
Sure, Virtual Desktops (or Desks) for Chrome OS aren’t currently a thing just yet, but we all know they are coming in Chrome OS 76 a mere 6 weeks from now. Though I’ve been waiting for this feature for what feels like an eternity, all the news surrounding this hotly-anticipated functionality up to this point […]
Continue Reading‘Atlas’, Pixelbook 2, and the Pixel 3a Effect
We’ve talked about ‘Atlas’ for what feels almost like an eternity around here. As a device that began showing up in development alongside the Pixel Slate (‘Nocturne’ back then), we are beyond long-in-the-tooth at this point as we continue waiting and speculating about exactly what ‘Atlas’ is and when we’ll finally see it actually come […]
Continue ReadingPoin2 Chromebook 14 Review: Best Sub-$300 Chromebook With A Catch
Right off the bat, I want to make sure we’re all looking at the Poin2 Chromebook 14 through a very particular lense: the lense of price. You see, when a device drops down into this price range, it becomes quite a bit easier to forgive things that aren’t perfect, and that is exactly the case […]
Continue ReadingHuge Savings On The Lenovo’s 4K Yoga Chromebook
The end of 2018 brought us a slew of great Chromebooks and set the stage for where we currently are in the market. Where is that, exactly? Well, we have so many great choices on Chromebooks large and small that it tends to come down to price when buyers are making a decision on what […]
Continue ReadingBrydge C-Type: The Best Wireless Keyboard For Your Chromebook
It’s no secret that accessories – both wired and wireless – made specifically for Chrome OS devices are few and far between. When you look at any store and shop for a mouse, keyboard, case, etc., you’ll be met with a slew of options for both Apple and Windows devices, but you’ll be hard-pressed to […]
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