Upcoming Devices

Just last week, MediaTek officially unveiled a couple new Kompanio chips that should find themselves in affordable Chromebooks to be released in the coming months. These two new SoCs – the Kompanio 520 and 528 – should be pretty substantial upgrades over the original Kompanio 500 that we first saw in the beloved Lenovo Chromebook […]

While we’re still yet to see a large handful of 12th-gen Intel-powered Chromebooks in development actually hit the market, there’s another sector of next-gen ChromeOS devices on the way that haven’t broken cover yet: the new wave of Chromeboxes (and maybe a Chromebase or two). While less flashy and far more practical than something like […]

In what feels like serendipitous timing with Halloween right around the corner, a new Chromebook sporting the yet-unreleased Snapdragon 7c+ Gen 3 has begun development, making this the 5th device in production with this newer, more-powerful Snapdragon SoC on board. It wasn’t that long ago that we finally linked the internal name for this processor […]

Just yesterday, Gabriel and I were discussing the fact that neither of us have a Chromebook that we’d 100% go out and buy today if we were in the market. Sure, my situation is pretty unique given the fact that there are new Chromebooks in and out of our office all the time, but I’d […]

Right off the bat, let’s file this one away in the unconfirmed-but-probable category. While I feel quite confident that the info we have leads us to the end result of a Samsung-made Chromebox or AIO (all-in-one) Chromebase, we can’t be 100% sure of this. The most questionable part of this upcoming device is the trick […]

Today is a very big day for Chromebooks as Framework – the company behind the most-popular, fully-modular laptop ever made – is announcing the new Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition. In partnership with Google, Framework is bringing all of their fantastic, sustainable, repairable, customizable laptop options to ChromeOS in a move that becomes more interesting with […]

As a long-time Fitbit Versa user (I’ve had them all at this point), I can definitely say that the biggest gripe I tend to have is the lack of fluidity and questionable layout of the UI. With the Fitbit Versa 3 I currently have on my wrist, general responsiveness is OK, but moving through the […]

It wasn’t that long ago that we surfaced a new MediaTek chipset on the way for Chromebooks, internally dubbed as the MT8186. Little is still known about this SoC, but judging by the model number, I’d still wager it will end up as the followup to the current Kompanio 500 – internally called the MT8183. […]

Though we have quite a few options for processors in Chromebooks these days, the market is largely dominated by Intel. Sure, there are AMD, MediaTek and Snapdragon processors out there for purchase, but between the large and small-core offerings by Intel over the years, Chromebooks and Intel silicon have become somewhat synonymous. There’s room for […]

For years at this point, Chromebooks with Intel silicon inside have fallen on one of two sides of the coin: large core or small core. That’s a simplistic way to put it, but in general, this is how we’ve seen Intel approach Chromebooks over the past 6 or 7 years. As an example, as 4th-gen […]