Update: After a bit of confusion, Google’s Chromebook Community manager Alisha has dropped an announcement in the Chromebook Forum. Here’s what we have thus far: As you may have already heard, our team is working with Valve to bring Steam to Chrome OS. We are very excited to share that we’ll be landing an early, […]
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Steam on Chrome OS is so close
It seems like forever since we first heard the news that Google and Valve were working to bring Steam gaming to Chromebooks. Two years later and it really feels as if Google is on the cusp of finally launching the finished product. With each passing day, new commits emerge that appear to be putting the […]
Continue ReadingSteam for Chrome OS gets minimum hardware specs
If you follow Chrome Unboxed or Chrome OS development in general, the name ‘Borealis‘ may provoke some feelings of excitement and anticipation. If you’re a gamer and Borealis doesn’t ring a bell, now would be a good time to bring you up to speed on the news. Project Borealis It has been more than two […]
Continue Reading[Updated] Grab the latest Chromebook wallpapers for your device
Want the latest Chrome OS wallpapers for your device? Google continues to supply users with an abundance of creative, beautiful, and interesting pieces, and while these do become available right through the built-in Personalization app which can be found by right-clicking the “desktop” and choosing “Personalize”, or “Set Wallpaper”, we’re going to make an effort […]
Continue Reading‘Bruschetta’ is bringing third-party VMs to Chrome OS
Chrome OS is becoming more versatile by the minute. It won’t be long before our beloved operating system is capable of doing anything that any other PC can do. Just this week, I was able to get Lightworks up and running on the ASUS Chromebook CX9 and I can say that we aren’t far off […]
Continue ReadingThe Chrome Cast 148: new details emerge on the Pixel Notepad and Pixel Watch
This week on The Chrome Cast, we begin things by introducing our newest, soon-to-be employee: Andrew Johnson. He’s not technically on the team just yet, but we’re near getting him onboarded and we spend a few minutes letting all of you get to know him a bit better. Andrew will be helping us with video […]
Continue ReadingRGB keyboards signal Google’s high hopes for Chromebook gaming
I gotta be honest. I was starting the think that, perhaps, Google had abandoned its aspirations to make Chrome OS a viable gaming platform. For months, we have been digging and tinkering with the hopes of getting ‘Borealis‘, a.k.a. Steam for Chrome OS up and running on one of the latest 11th Gen Intel devices […]
Continue ReadingIntel Arc Alchemist dGPUs could be headed to Chrome OS
It has been just shy of two years since Andriod Police’s David Ruddock received the juicy news that Google was working with Valve to bring native Steam support to Chrome OS. Since that time, we have been steadily putting together every puzzle piece we could find to get a full picture of the what and […]
Continue ReadingThe best hope for Chromebook video editing is now Apple’s iPad App of the Year
It’s no secret that LumaFusion is coming to Chromebooks via Android at some point in 2022. How long that development cycle will take is still an unknown, but when we learned this full-featured video editor was being built for Android with Chromebooks as a primary target, it goes without saying that we were pretty pumped […]
Continue ReadingAnother 12th-gen Intel Alder Lake Chromebook is inbound as we near CES 2022
As we come to the end of 2021 – just like in year’s past – we fully expect to begin seeing official news of next-gen Intel-powered Chromebooks at any time. With CES 2022 just a few weeks away (crazy, right??), it comes as no surprise that there is a continuous trickle of new 12th-gen Intel […]
Continue ReadingThe Chrome Cast 141: New Snapdragon for Chromebooks, Chrome OS 96, Pixel Watch hopes
This week on The Chrome Cast, we spend the first half of the show discussing our sweet Lenovo Duet 5 giveaway and, because it is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c Gen 2, we transition right into talking about the company’s Snapdragon Summit. At this event, a new Snapdragon 7c+ Gen 3 was announced that […]
Continue ReadingSteam support for Chromebooks could surface this week
After months and months and even more months of waiting, it appears that we may finally get our first look at native Steam gaming on Chrome OS in the very near future. Affectionately known as project ‘Borealis’, the containerized version of Steam has been in the works for nearly two years and it was initially […]
Continue ReadingLenovo has a new 12th-gen Intel Alder Lake Chromebook in the works
Just yesterday, we began our ramp-up and planning for CES 2022. It’s hard to believe, but the big tech show is only 5 weeks away and that means we’re likely going to see some new Chromebook hardware in that same time frame. While we clearly won’t see all the Chromebooks set to launch in 2022 […]
Continue ReadingChrome OS Gallery gets a shiny, new icon shortly after images opened in Google Photos
The Chrome OS gallery app has rocked the same tired, old logo for some time now, and while it did receive an update in the past, it wasn’t that stunning. For some, iconography isn’t that exciting, but every time I see an update to one of the system web apps, I know that Google is […]
Continue ReadingManaging Linux containers is about to get a lot easier on Chrome OS
Earlier this year, after roughly three years, Google finally lifted the “Beta” label from the Crostini project that brought a Linux development environment to Chromebooks. While many may feel that the Linux side of Chrome OS is only for technical users, developers, and tinkerers such as myself, the ability to install in run Linux packages […]
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