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Over the past few months, I’ve become a golf addict again. I say again because its been 15 years or so since I last played more than a few rounds of golf per year. Spurred on by my son’s newfound interest in one of my favorite sports, I’ve gone all-in and spend quite a bit […]
For various reasons, we all need to reset our devices from time to time. You may be handing your Chromebook off to someone else for an extended period, returning your Chromebook, or simply looking for a completely fresh start. Regardless of the intent, I’m here to tell you that doing this on a Chromebook is […]
It’s no secret that I really, really love the ASUS Chromebook CX5. From the sweet white-on-black exterior to the screaming-fast internals, there aren’t too many downsides with this Chromebook. Sure, it’s a tad bit large and a little heavy (that’s just part of owning a 15.6-inch laptop), but the CX5 does so much right for […]
In a turn that isn’t surprising to anyone, Apple is finally making the move to bring Facetime to the web. Before the pandemic, having Facetime relegated to Apple devices and via a dedicated app made perfect sense in the pre-Covid walled garden approach Apple has to most things. As COVID-19 radically changed the way we […]
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Now that we have the ASUS Chromebook Flip CX5 review out in the wild, it is time to turn some attention to the Flip CM5 – the all-black, AMD-powered variant that launched alongside it. There’s no way to get around the comparisons between these two Chromebooks, so I’m not even going to try. The Flip […]
This week on The Chrome Cast, we begin the show by covering down on all the new features available in Chrome and Chrome OS 91. Between updates to the V8 JavaScript engine – dubbed Sparkplug – and the arrival of Nearby Share, version 91 of Chrome OS is a nice, incremental update that should improve […]
It has been a few months since we first heard rumors of a Pixel Fold – a folding screen phone with Google’s software on the inside – and the internet has been pretty quiet about it since. Jon Prosser was the first to give us a bit of info on the upcoming device, simply proclaiming […]
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You can already read all about Chrome OS 91 and all the devices currently getting it (and those who aren’t just yet), but we wanted to highlight a few of these new features on video as we do each time a new version of the OS becomes available. While Chrome OS 91 isn’t a major […]
I really hate having to write things like this, but here we go. A few weeks back, we reported some serious problems in AMD Ryzen Chromebook performance when devices left the charger. On battery alone, our in-house testing shows about a 40% reduction in performance based on multiple benchmarks and is corroborated 100% in basic, […]
Unlike last month’s delayed release of Chrome OS 90, version 91 of the OS looks to be rolling out swiftly following the official announcement yesteday afternoon. With Chrome OS getting regular updates every 6 weeks, the announcement from Google that a new version is available can sometimes be followed by a bit of a waiting […]
Google Messages has been a part of the overall Chromebook experience for quite some time now. If you’ve not set it up, I’d urge you to give it a try. The process is simple, the usability is very good, and it is nice to be able to fully leverage your text (SMS, MMS, Chat) messages […]
If you’ve followed along here at Chrome Unboxed for any amount of time, you generally have the feel for what product cycles feel like. Devices begin in the Chromium Repositories and begin branching off from a singular source based on a new chipset. Take the new Tiger Lake 11th-gen Intel Chromebooks we’re just now seeing […]
