I’ll be the first to say it: we’ve missed in the past concerning fingerprint scanners on Chromebooks. The underlying groundwork has been added to many boards over the course of the past couple years, but we’ve yet to actually see a piece of hardware equipping the biometric system.
Continue ReadingMore Features For #madebyGoogle Chromebook ‘Nocturne’ Emerge
Similar to last year’s pre-October-4th timeline, details are bubbling up left and right surrounding the newest Chromebook to grab the public’s attention: ‘Nocturne’. Some of these details we’re sharing today were unearthed a couple weeks ago by the folks over at XDA, but they somehow slipped past my radar. In combination to what we’ve seen […]
Continue ReadingNew #madebyGoogle Chromebook ‘Nocturne’ To Have Bright Screen, Real-Time Auto Brightness
Another day, another ‘Nocturne’ puzzle piece uncovered. As we continue inching towards October 4th and Google’s yet-unannounced hardware event for 2018, we fully expect to continue seeing more and more of the entire picture of what Google has planned just a few weeks from now.
Continue ReadingTwo New Pixelbooks Likely In October At the #madebyGoogle Event: ‘Atlas’ & ‘Nocturne’
It has only been days since we uncovered clear evidence that the upcoming Chromebook ‘Atlas’ looks to be #madebyGoogle and will likely be making an appearance at the yet-to-be-official October 4th hardware event. In that article, we talked briefly about another device – ‘Nocturne’ – that has been increasingly mentioned in commits next to ‘Atlas’ […]
Continue ReadingProof That ‘Atlas’ Will Be A #madebyGoogle Chromebook
Just 11 days ago I wrote an article titled New Chromebook ‘Atlas’ Could Be #madebyGoogle. In that article we looked at a few reasons we believed ‘Atlas’ could possibly be one of the next #madebyGoogle Chromebooks. ONE of the next, you ask? Yeah, I have a gut feeling that there will be two or three […]
Continue ReadingWhere Did The Clear All Notifications in the New Chrome OS System Tray Go?
For as long as I’ve used a Chromebook, there’s a particular UI element that has never changed. It’s been in the same spot and behaved the same way as long as I can remember, and I used it often. What item is that, you may ask? The clear all notifications button.
Continue ReadingQualcomm Powered Chromebook ‘Cheza’ To Feature LTE & eSIM
One of the things my first real Chromebook came equipped with was wireless network access. The HP Chromebook 14 (the first device I did an unboxing of) came with a free, paltry amount of data each month from T-Mobile. If you wanted, you could up that amount and pay for a data plan, but I […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Camera App Shows Up On The Pixelbook In Dev Channel
Let me put this out there and own it: I have been insanely critical of the general camera experience on Chromebooks. I’m not going to link all the articles and videos where I’ve put this whole camera mess on blast, but if you are new around here, know that I’ve not been nice. In my […]
Continue ReadingYou Can Now Browse The Web in Daydream VR with Chrome
Well, it’s been a long time coming, but it seems users will finally be able to browse the web with the Daydream headset using the Chrome browser. I took a look and we wrote about the infant stages of this development all the way back in September of 2017, so to say this development is […]
Continue ReadingOfficial PUBG Mobile Support For Chromebooks Likely Coming Soon
We covered PUBG Mobile’s arrival on Chromebooks some time ago, but that was just to say the game was finally playable on Chrome OS. The state of affairs there hasn’t changed much over the past few months with the game forcing all Chromebooks into the “low” graphics settings with only medium framerates across the board. […]
Continue ReadingLinux Apps on Chromebooks Could Hit Stable In Chrome 69
It’s been a bit since we’ve talked about Linux apps on Chromebooks, but that doesn’t mean development has stopped. Actually, progress has been constantly moving forward with small tweaks and changes happening almost daily. The big changes, however, haven’t been as rapid-fire since I/O back in May, so news surrounding the Crostini project has been […]
Continue ReadingNew Chromebook ‘Atlas’ Could Be #madebyGoogle
Just a few days ago news broke that a very credible source (Evan Blass: @evleaks) had it on good authority that we’ll see a followup to the Pixelbook at this year’s Google hardware event, likely on October 4th. Obviously, we’re quite excited about an update to the Pixelbook as it is, in my opinion, the […]
Continue ReadingPixelbook 2 Rumored for Google’s October Hardware Event
It is hard to believe, but we are only about 10 weeks out from Google’s third October hardware event. For the past two years, we’ve been treated to new, Google-branded hardware on the fourth day of October, and we don’t see any reason that will change this year.
Continue ReadingExtend Your Chromebook Storage On The Cheap
We obviously love Chromebooks around here! One thing that most Chromebooks inherently lack, however, is internal storage. With Android apps available on most Chromebooks these days, that local storage is becoming more and more necessary for a variety of users across the board.
Continue ReadingSamsung Chromebook Plus V2 First Impressions
The newest member of the Samsung Chromebook family is upon us, and as we’ve had it in-hand for a few days, we thought it time to give everyone a few first impressions after spending a day or two working from the device. To be honest, we’re refining how we do these videos still, so I’m […]
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