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One of the primary focuses here at Chrome Unboxed is future hardware. After all, our early days were all about new devices! What is coming feels just as important as what is here now, so we will continue looking for the latest and greatest developments in the Chrome OS ecosystem.
Intel’s Project Athena is aiming to set the standard for a new generation of laptops with standards for design, portability, power and battery life. Much to our delight, Intel touted Project Athena devices at CES 2020 and alongside recently announced Windows laptops, the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook and ASUS Chromebook Flip C436 were right there in […]
We’ve talked at length about this troubling trend in our podcast on many occasions, but we don’t write about it often. Chromebooks have the worst track record with release dates among all consumer electronics. Devices get leaked and then just show up out of nowhere. Devices get premiere treatment along with foggy availability windows. Flagship […]
Just this morning, Robby shared an update on the development of Qualcomm-powered Chromebooks and we’re keeping our fingers crossed that 2020 could finally be the year that Snapdragon devices become a reality. However, while digging through the Chromium repository, I discovered a new development board that could very well give Qualcomm a run for their […]
The going has been slow to say the least. Qualcomm Snapdragon Chromebooks were supposed to show up in the second half of 2019 with the Snapdragon 845 chip on board, ready to shake up the ARM-powered Chromebook market with always-connected LTE, swift performance, and thin/light form factors. Those promises made in December of 2018 never […]
As time moves forward and we get farther and farther from the events of CES 2020 nearly three months ago now, it becomes easy to forget or simply mis-remember things that were so exciting at the time. For instance, just a month ago I could remember quite clearly how enamored I was in my time […]
We’ve been anxiously awaiting the release date for the Google Pixel Buds since our brief time with them back in October of 2019. In case you don’t recall, Google’s new Pixel Buds are direct competitors to Apple’s Airpods and Airpods Pro, giving users a light, small, pocketable set of wireless headphones that should work better […]
Very early on in 2020, we reported on a Chromebook in development – codenamed ‘Drallion’ – that will be sporting a very unique feature that no other Chromebook before it has ever had: a hardware privacy screen. These screens are built to give users the ability to create a physical, visual shield that halts others […]
It has only been a few days since the first version of Lenovo’s upcoming 10th-gen Comet Lake Chromebook showed up ready for pre-orders at Amazon and it seems another version is already ready for your consideration (though pre-orders of both models are not being taken at present). When we met with Lenovo at CES 2020, […]
With all the hubbub surrounding Lenovo’s upcoming IdeaPad Duet Chromebook, it can be easy to forget the other device we saw at CES 2020 when we were there: the Lenovo Chromebook Flex 5. The excitement around the Project Athena Chromebooks like the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook and the ASUS Chromebook Flip C436 took away from the […]
For about as long as we’ve been covering Google products, one of the most common non-Chrome OS searches that bring users to our site revolves around Chromecast remotes. As a matter of fact, it’s the number two search term over the past six months and is in the top ten of our lifetime queries. Clearly, […]
Just one day after ASUS dropped a drool-worthy teaser video of the Chromebook Flip C436, the highly-anticipated Comet Lake convertible has again popped up in an Amazon listing. This time, however, it’s our friends across the pond that can jump in line to place a pre-order. This model varies a bit from the two configurations […]
If there’s one thing you can’t fault ASUS for, it is their ability to create compelling, beautiful videos for their Chromebooks. The Flip C434 got the same treatment last year and in mid-January 2020, we saw a short video show up for the Flip C436 alongside a new landing page on ASUS’ website. These videos […]
