Today at 11am ET, Acer will introduce a pair of new Chromebooks for business with 13.5-inch FHD+ displays. The Spin 13 has a 360-degree hinge, touchscreen and built in stylus for note-taking.
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The Chromium team is trying to backport certain Linux modules so that Chromebooks on an older Linux kernel can run desktop apps.
The Nocturne device will support magnetic pogo pins to provide power to a keyboard base that detaches from the display; another first for Chromebooks.
The HP service manual for repairs or upgrades on the HP Chromebox G2 is available, confirming some specs and even adding a few new details on the device. If you plan to modify or fix your G2, you’ll need this.
The “merger” of Android and Chrome OS continues with a new Chrome system tray settings updated that borrows some visual aspects from Android P. Here’s to how to get it early.
By updating the Chrome OS Crostini container component, I broke my Linux terminal! That’s OK, there’s a quick workaround to get going again with Linux apps on a Chromebook.
With LXC 3.0.0 officially announced back in March, Google is wasting little time in updating the Linux container technology for Project Crostini.
First expected in the US last month and now halfway through May, the Acer Chromebook Tab 10 looks like a June release at best for many.
Google Drive consumer storage will become Google One with some plan changes, and a new plan. Even better: You don’t have to create a shared folder for your family to spread that space out. It will be easier to natively share the cloud storage capacity between five people.
Android apps running on Chromebooks can now see their data stored on a memory card in the Chrome OS Beta Channel. Writing files isn’t working consistently but this is a step forward for conserving local storage on a Chromebook.
How can devs test their Android apps on a Chromebook if they don’t have a Chrome OS device? Say hello to a preview version of a Chrome OS device emulator for Android Studio.