On November 10th, MediaTek will hold its annual Summit that is slated to kick off at 9:30 a.m. ET. with closing remarks wrapping up around noon. While a good majority of the virtual Summit will focus on MediaTek’s Global market strategy, you can rest assured that the ARM chipmaker will spend a little time talking […]
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Similar to our reviews section, unboxing Chromebooks and other Chrome OS devices are central to our DNA. It's where our name came from, after all. In this section, you'll find our initial reactions to devices as we pull them out of the box. Sometimes, that's the most telling part of a device review. Be sure to check out the reviews that go with each unboxing.
Lenovo Smart Clock Essential unboxing and hands-on: small package, big value [VIDEO]
As we near the holiday shopping season and lots of electronics start plummeting in price, we thought it a good time to get our hands on the new Lenovo Smart Clock Essential as it is becoming available for as little as $25 as of the writing of this post. For that small asking price, the […]
Continue ReadingHands-on with the Acer Spin 513, the world’s first Snapdragon-powered Chromebook [VIDEO]
You read that right! We have our hands on the world’s first Chromebook powered by the Snapdragon 7c from Qualcomm. Though this device won’t debut for a few months at this point, there’s still a lot to love about what we’ve already been able to test and we want to share those first impressions with […]
Continue ReadingNest Audio unboxing and initial impressions [VIDEO]
Well, the true successor to the original Google Home smart speaker is officially available from various retailers. It has been a while since we added a new smart speaker to the list of smart devices around the office. So, we went and picked one up. We’re going to spend a little time with the new […]
Continue ReadingChromecast with Google TV unboxing and initial hands-on [VIDEO]
Today was finally the day that we were able to get our hands on the new Chromecast with Google TV. We were hoping for one directly from Google, but as that failed to pan out our hopes were revived when a handful of the devices showed up at our local Home Depot. After loading up […]
Continue ReadingEverything we expect at Google’s ‘Launch Night In’ event tomorrow
With Google’s ‘Launch Night In’ less than 24 hours away, we wanted to quickly recap all we expect to see at the virtual event that is slated for 2PM EST tomorrow on September 30th. This will be the first all-virtual Google hardware event and it will be interesting to see how Google approaches announcing its […]
Continue ReadingDell Latitude 7410 Chromebook Enterprise unboxing and hands-on [VIDEO]
In it’s follow-up to the Dell Latitude 5400 Chromebook Enterprise, Dell has released the Latitude 7410 Chromebook Enterprise and the improvements are numerous when compared with the first version. From an upgrade to the newest 10th-gen Intel Core i5, 8GB or 16GB of RAM and between 128GB and 512GB of NVMe SSD storage to better […]
Continue ReadingMicrosoft Surface Duo unboxing and hands-on [VIDEO]
Yeah, you read that title right: we have the Microsoft Surface Duo in the house and we’re doing what we do and unboxing it. The reasons I bought this device are various, but the primary factor was the interesting way that Microsoft chose to angle this device as a pocketable computing device that happens to […]
Continue ReadingSamsung Chromebook 4+ unboxing and initial impressions [VIDEO]
The Samsung Chromebook 4 and 4+ came out some time ago, announced all the way back in October of last year. The pair was never really on our radar as their internals were simply too mundane at too high a price to ever consider or recommend. For low-end Chromebooks, there have been far too many […]
Continue ReadingHP Pro C640 Chromebook unboxing and initial impressions
Without warning, the HP Pro C640 Chromebook Enterprise landed in the office and we’ve decided to go in for a true first impressions unboxing. We first heard about this device in early May of 2020 and as it is a Chromebook clearly meant for enterprise-level deployment, we made our posts about it and just moved […]
Continue ReadingHP Chromebook x360 14c unboxing and hands-on [VIDEO]
As we enter into the beginning of the second half of 2020, new Chromebooks have not stopped arriving. With the pandemic in full swing and economies all over the place, I was honestly unsure what the new device landscape would look like at this point in the year. As a surprise to us all, it […]
Continue ReadingThe Acer Spin 713 was delivered 48 hours after being announced and it should always be this way
I haven’t fully reviewed the Acer Chromebook Spin 713 in the customary way we normally do because it has only been official as a publicly-announced Chromebook for a little over 3 days at this point. Our hands-on video gets across much of what I’m still feeling about this device and my time with it has […]
Continue ReadingUnboxing the $169 Lenovo Chromebook 3: Worth the money?
Lenovo just rolled out a new Chromebook that could potentially throw down the gauntlet for the best budget device on the market. The Lenovo Chromebook 3 popped up on the company’s website this week for the impressively low price of $229 but we discovered an even cheaper model here at our local Walmart. So, we […]
Continue ReadingA very unique unboxing video from Chrome Unboxed
If you aren’t aware, YouTube does a very cool thing for content creators when they hit certain milestones. At 100,000 subscribers, creators get a special plaque that commemorates the acheivement and they do the same for 1,000,000 subs and 10,000,000 as well. The plaques are silver followed by gold and then by platinum for the […]
Continue ReadingLenovo Flex 5 Chromebook unboxing and initial impressions
It’s been a full 5 months since I had any time to spend with the Lenovo Flex 5 Chromebook in Las Vegas at CES 2020, and in that time, I’d honestly almost completely forgotten what this Chromebook felt like in the flesh. I wrote a piece last week about my realization that I under-valued the […]
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