Just in time for the holiday weekend, “Santa” dropped the $979 Asus Chromebook Flip CX3 on my doorstep and I have some first impressions. The price is steep but the internals may be worth it, particularly that fanless, power-sipping Intel Core i7.
Tiger Lake
Copano looks to be a 14-inch Asus Chromebook with low power Intel Tiger Lake UP4 CPU
A 14-inch Asus Chromebook built on the “Copano” board is coming. This Chromebook will use the Intel Tiger Lake UP4 silicon, a lower-powered mobile package.
First Intel Tiger Lake Chromebook tests for Volteer suggest huge performance gains
Work on the first Intel Tiger Lake Chromebooks continues and early benchmarks indicate large performance gains with the 11th-gen CPUs. Plus we’ll see Thunderbolt and USB 4.0 support.