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The battle to dominate the premium Chromebook space is quickly heating up as chipmakers begin eyeing Chrome OS as a platform deserving of flagship-caliber performance and features. As it stands, Intel owns that space thanks to this year’s 10th Gen Comet Lake offerings but that could soon change if AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 3700C that powers […]
Not long ago – just the last version update, actually – Chrome OS got a fresh, new media app. This new app is capable of handling just about any media you throw its way and is also a system web app. While you still can’t simply open up this app on its own or set […]
It was no secret to us that ASUS would eventually be dropping a 10th Gen Comet Lake Chromebox. As a matter of fact, it was just Monday that we shared that ASUS’s new mini Chrome OS PC was added to the “unofficial” developer list of board names. That said, ASUS has dropped the news sooner […]
You read that right. In the coming months, it seems Google is ready to transition one of the more complex core applications on a Chromebook over to what is commonly referred to in Chrome OS as a System Web App (or SWA for short). Other apps have previously gone this route with little in the […]
Here we are again. It seems like only yesterday that Robby took to his keyboard to clear up some relatively common misconceptions about how Chromebook motherboards are developed and more importantly how they are named. It all started when rumors started making their way around the web about a certain Chromebook in development code-named ‘Zork’. […]
It was just September when Robby stumbled upon a new feature that would bring native screen recording and an entirely revamped capture tool to Chrome OS. In recent weeks, the screen capture tool landed in the Canary channel and the screenshot tool has actually worked for quite some time. With it, you take fullscreen or […]
An update to the Chrome browser will soon introduce increased security when clicking on web page links. Normally, when a web developer inserts a link into a page, they can add the attribute target=”_blank” to force the link to open in a new tab or window. It can be a convenient way to link their […]
It has been a little less than three months since we discovered a new feature being developed for Chrome OS that will give users device-specific statistics, real-time resource usage, and diagnostic tools in one native system web app. To avoid any confusion, this is not the “connectivity diagnostics” app that we recently reported. This feature […]
For the better part of two years, I’ve obsessively watched the virtual desks feature for Chromebooks begin, develop and arrive for Chrome OS. Virtual desks are a part of Chromebooks I use every single day at this point, even when I’m attached to my second monitor at my desk. For organizational purposes and general cleanliness […]
It has been more than a year since we discovered that Chrome OS would be getting some form of an Ambient Mode that presumably would mimic the feature found on Chromecast devices. Over the past year, the Ambient Mode has evolved to include a clock widget as well as the outside temperature just like the […]
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This week, MediaTek announced a whole bunch of stuff at their annual summit, but buried right in the middle of everything they spoke of, there were 2 new chips officially announced that will be added to the current MediaTek SoC (the MT8183 currently on display in the Lenovo Chromebook Duet and a few others) to […]
It is mind-boggling to think that our planet has been under the declaration of a pandemic for eight months now. On March 11, when the WHO labeled COVID-19 a global pandemic, we had no earthly idea how much normal, day-to-day life would change let alone for how long. Out of pure coincidence, on March 12th […]
