Just last week, MediaTek officially unveiled a couple new Kompanio chips that should find themselves in affordable Chromebooks to be released in the coming months. These two new SoCs – the Kompanio 520 and 528 – should be pretty substantial upgrades over the original Kompanio 500 that we first saw in the beloved Lenovo Chromebook […]
Continue ReadingIt looks like Pixel 7a will fix my biggest gripe with the Pixel 6a
There have already been a slew of leaks that have surfaced for the Pixel 7a, but details about the screen were assumed with the first round of rumors. To get you caught up, those earlier leaks suggest a flagship-like A-series phone from Google on the way with the same Tensor G2 SoC inside that the […]
Continue ReadingGet the excellent Lenovo Chromebook Flex 5i for $200 off retail
There’s no doubt that it is the time of year for deals. Gabriel just surfaced the $299 sale on the Lenovo Flex 5i with the 11th-gen Intel Core i3 inside over the weekend, and this deal comes right on the heels of that stellar offer. While the $299 model is the one I’d personally go […]
Continue ReadingAt this price, the Fitbit Versa 4 is a fantastic deal for a beautiful smartwatch
Just this morning, I wrote a post detailing the addition of both Google Maps and Google Wallet for the new Fitbit Versa 4 and Sense 2. In that post, I didn’t really hold back in speaking my mind about the shortcomings of the Fitbit Versa 4 and I don’t pretend that those things don’t still […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Wallet finally comes to Fitbit Versa 4 and Sense 2, Google Maps soon
I’ve had a bit of a mixed experience of late with Fitbit. Since the aquisition of the company by Google, we now have the first Fitbit Versa and Fitbit Sense with Google branding on the box, and we also have the Pixel Watch as part of the larger, overall family at this point. Though I’ve […]
Continue ReadingDon’t miss this unbelievably huge discount on arguably the best Chromebook of 2021
There are Chromebook deals and then there are Chromebook Deals. This one would be one of the latter. One of my favorite parts of covering the ChromeOS world is the vast variety of hardware and the fact that any of it is prone to go on sale at a moment’s notice. We generally scour the […]
Continue ReadingHere are all the Kompanio 520 Chromebooks in development we’re tracking right now
Last week, before Joe went out to Sonoma for the 2022 MediaTek Executive Summit, I found a few interesting new boards in the Chromium Repositories that contained the new, somewhat-mysterious MT8186 SoC inside. We’ve talked about it before, but when I found these new devices in development, I also had some embargoed information that made […]
Continue ReadingChristmas comes early with full leaked renders of the upcoming Pixel Fold
I was not expecting this at all today! As many of you know by this point, the Pixel Fold (A.K.A. Pixel Notepad and Passport) has been leaked, rumored, and delayed all sorts of times over the past 18 months. Known only as the Pixel Fold early on, the name ‘Passport’ was thrown around before we […]
Continue ReadingNVIDIA has a great new option for gifting GeForce NOW to others for the holidays
It’s the time of year where great gifts become priority number one until they are found, secured, and packaged up for giving later in the year. We see it everywhere, from brick-and-mortar stores to online retailers: deals are everywhere you look. But what if you aren’t necessarily looking for a deal and instead are after […]
Continue ReadingYouTube TV gets a tiny feature addition that makes a really big difference
For as long as YouTube TV on streaming devices has been a thing, there’s a glaring, aggravating, annoying, and admittedly tiny thing missing from the entire experience. And there’s a chance you’ve either made due without it around or you’ve noticed it and once you did, it annoyed you every time you couch surfed through […]
Continue ReadingThe Chrome Cast 200: Surface Laptop SE makes a great Chromebook as LumaFusion finally arrives
This week on The Chrome Cast, we talk in-depth about one of our latest videos that sees us take the Microsoft Surface Laptop SE and turn the “Chromebook Killer” into a pretty sweet Chromebook. Using ChromeOS Flex, we now have a Surface Laptop SE in the office that is quite nice to work with and […]
Continue ReadingAt just $79, this HP Chromebook 11 deal is impossible to ignore
Just when I think deals cannot get more insane on Chromebooks, a new one shows up and blows my mind. When I think of the list of semi-trivial things that people spend at least $79 for, my head gets a bit dizzy. In our current economy, $79 doesn’t go nearly as far as it once […]
Continue ReadingHow to fix a Pixel Watch with the black screen of death
This morning, I woke up to a bit of a troubling situation. Right as I was ready to leave the house, I went to my bedside table as I do every single day and I grabbed my earbuds, my phone, and my watch. As I situated my things in my pockets and onto my wrist, […]
Continue ReadingThis deal on a QHD HP monitor is too good to miss if you need a second display
As many of you already know, I’m a big advocate of secondary displays. My admiration for them goes beyond just having one on my desk at all times and extends into the full embrace of Virtual Desks on my Chromebook as well. While overview mode and resizing windows help arrange items to an extent, there […]
Continue ReadingTurning the “Chromebook Killer” into a killer little Chromebook with ChromeOS Flex [VIDEO]
When we traveled up to New York last month, we were able to tour the ChromeOS Flex labs to get a bit more insight on how Google confirms the viability of ChromeOS Flex on aging laptops. I wrote a whole post about all this already, so I won’t repeat myself again except to say that […]
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