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Chromebooks are the heart of the Chrome OS experience. At their core, Chromebooks are the purest expression of Google's operating system. Here, you'll find only articles and stories about Chromebooks, their features, and what makes them great.
It has been about three months since Robby made the case that Samsung was likely on the cusp of launching the next iteration of the company’s budget Chromebook lineup. The Jasper Lake-powered Sasuke had all the signs of being a Samsung device. Given the fact that Samsung appears to have abandoned the Chromebook Plus line, […]
Amazon Prime Days are upon us and there are plenty of deals to be had. We’ll be sharing more of those deals between now and the end of the event but Amazon isn’t the only game in town. In typical fashion, many retailers are rolling out their own promotions to get in on the hype […]
Amazon’s Prime Day sale is underway and I’m happy to share that this year, there are actually some Chromebook deals worth talking about. The annual 2-day event will feature deals that run until the end of the day tomorrow along with lightning deals that will drop every few hours. We’ll be covering the best deals […]
Father’s Day is tomorrow but it’s not too late to pick up a killer deal on an awesome Chromebook just in time to make dad’s week a little bit sweeter. Samsung has recently dropped the price on the original Galaxy Chromebook and its sibling, the Galaxy Chromebook 2. The OG Galaxy is currently sitting at […]
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Once upon a time, there was a relativley large divide between large and small-core Intel-based Chromebooks. Up to just a couple years ago, small-core Intel devices with Braswell or Apollo Lake chips were really hard to recommend to just about anyone. With cheap build quality, cheap components, and painfully slow performance, I even disliked the […]
Though they aren’t sold in incredibly high numbers, there are Chromebooks available with LTE on-board and they provide a great solution to many users who need connectivity on the go. The number of LTE-enabled Chromebooks is only on the way up, so some of the features users expect from wireless devices are bound to follow, […]
Today is the big day! Google has just opened the doors to its first-ever retail location in the midtown neighborhood of Chelsea right in the heart of Manhattan. Technically, this isn’t Google’s first run at a physical location but past endeavors were made up of temporary “pop-up” stores that generally focused on specific hardware launches […]
In May, we debuted our first-ever EDU Week series which will be an ongoing section on Chrome Unboxed dedicated to the education space. It is our goal to do this series twice a year around the time that teachers, admins, students, and parents are looking for timely information as it pertains to Google in the […]
This isn’t a shameless plug: our Patreon community is a really, really cool place (there’s a link down below if you are interested). Yesterday, one of our most active members reached out (thanks, TK!) to ask if we’d like to see Facetime on the web in action. Through a string of circumstances, he has an […]
If you’re looking for a really good deal on a premium Chromebook, you may want to consider taking a trip over to eBay. While the massive online mall can oftentimes feel a bit daunting and some sellers are questionable, getting a Certified refurbished laptop from eBay actually carries with it some peace of mind that […]
In March of this year, Google announced that the company’s Chrome browser would begin seeing 4-week updates with the release of version 94 of the desktop browser. This shortens the milestone cycle by two weeks from the current 6-week cycle that we have known for more than a decade and that doesn’t include the bi-weekly […]
Acer recently unveiled the latest iteration of the popular Chromebook Spin 713 and needless to say, it’s making all the right moves. The new 13.5″ convertible is the first-ever Intel Evo-certified Chrome OS device on the market and it comes rocking a powerful 11th Gen Intel Tiger Lake CPU. When announced, we were under the […]
