Google has largely addressed the oft-mentioned “built-in obsolescence” and return on investment arguments against Chromebooks by announcing 8 years of automatic Chrome OS updates for all new devices.
Author: Kevin Tofel
Kevin Tofel
After spending 15 years in IT at Fortune 100 companies, Kevin turned a hobby into a career and began covering mobile technology in 2003. He writes daily on the industry and has co-hosted the weekly MobileTechRoundup podcast since 2006. His writing has appeared in print (The New York Times, PC Magazine and PC World) and he has been featured on NBC News in Philadelphia.
Acer kicked off the annual BETT education show in London by announcing the Acer Chromebook 712 on Monday. It’s ruggedized, has a 3:2 display and can be had with up a 10th-gen Intel Core i3 and 8 GB of memory.
Pre-orders for the base model Asus Chromebook Flip C436 are up on Amazon, with a February 24 release date. You can also drop $999 for a configuration that is closer to the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook, due by March.
For at least the third time in nearly a year, the ability to resize storage space for a Linux container on Chromebooks is delayed. An experimental flag has been added for this but the feature is now targeting Chrome OS 81.
An official PDF spec sheet fills in some of the missing details of the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet Chromebook including the number of models, expected run time and more.
Additional details on the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook have surfaced including the number of configuration models, support for wideband audio over Bluetooth and more.
After spending 30 minutes with the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook, I think most who part with $999 for it will be happy. Battery life is lower than I thought but the display, design and performance may make up for that.
With all of the hype about the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet Chromebook yesterday, it was easy to overlook a new 2-in-1 from the same company: the Lenovo Chromebook Flex 5 with included stylus, which starts at $360 when it launches in June.
Following experimental support for Linux on the Chromebook Pixel 2015 with Chrome OS 77, Google is moving the feature to eight other older Chrome OS devices.
The new Lenovo IdeaPad Duet Chromebook improves upon prior 10.1-inch Chrome OS tablets in many ways with an included kickstand cover and detachable keyboard. It starts at $279 when it arrives in May.
The Asus Chromebook Flip C436 has broken cover at CES 2020 offering a familiar 2-in-1 form factor and new fingerprint sensor, plus the latest 10th-generation Intel Core processors.