Tag Archives: chrome-os

HP’s first AMD Chromebook lands at CES 2019, coming in January for $269

Making its debut at CES 2019, the HP Chromebook 14 is the world’s first AMD-powered Chromebook running on either an AMD A4 or A6 processor with integrated Radeon R4 or R5 graphics. Chromebooks — laptops that run on Google’s web-based Chrome OS — are a growing part of the global PC market. AMD’s processors typically …

Read More »

AMD gets serious about Chromebooks at CES 2019

AMD’s early CES 2019 announcements brought us some updates on its laptop processors, which include a targeted attempt to capture some of the growing cheap Chromebook market, slightly faster mobile Ryzens and a promise to keep everyone’s AMD laptop drivers up to date with the latest zero-day game-release optimizations. Sadly, the news didn’t include the much-anticipated, high-performance 7-nanometer Navi GPUs or the …

Read More »

Asus debuts new Chrome OS tablet, Chromebooks geared toward the classroom

On Thursday, Asus debuted its Chromebook Education series, a range of different Chrome OS devices designed for use in the classroom. Enlarge Image Specs of the Asus Chromebooks and convertible. Asus The announcement covered the Asus Chromebook C204 and Asus Chromebook C403 (both clamshell laptops), the Asus Chromebook Flip C214 convertible and Asus Chromebook Tablet CT100. While Asus has released …

Read More »

Google’s Fuchsia OS will seemingly support Android apps

Looks like Google won’t make your Android apps obsolete whenever it switches to the Fuchsia operating system. A file posted on the Android Open Source Project suggests that the search giant is implementing a specially made version of Android Runtime (ART) — the architecture used by the apps — in the upcoming operating system, as previously reported by 9to5Google. “These …

Read More »

How Apple should unleash the iPad Pro in 2019

I’ve written this story before. For years. I sit on a train, in a coffee shop, at the office, on a plane, at a press conference. The iPad is in my hands. I think: this can be my everything. This could be the One Device. And then, something happens. A disconnect, a workflow break, something that makes me go back …

Read More »

CNET’s end

This year, we reviewed dozens of laptops all across the spectrum of price and power. But, as 2018 draws to a close and we prepare to see loads of new systems at CES 2019, there are still several noteworthy laptops on our testing bench. Here are brief hands-on impressions of a few, along with preliminary test results and photos.  In …

Read More »

Google Pixel Slate is the Mirror Universe iPad Pro

I have a dream of a tablet that can also be my laptop. The Microsoft Surface already does that. The iPad Pro tries for that, but delivers only half of the equation. And now the Google Pixel Slate claims to offer the exact things the iPad Pro lacks most, but at an equally high price. But it brings with it …

Read More »

Buying a Cyber Monday Chromebook? Read this first

Good news, everyone! If you slept on a Black Friday Chromebook deal, there are new Cyber Monday Chromebook deals ripe for the picking. Google’s web-based Chrome OS laptops and two-in-ones are typically cheap to start with, starting around $200. But this time of year you can find some amazing prices.  Chrome doesn’t require a lot of processing power for basic …

Read More »

The Google Pixel Slate will ship in time for the holidays

It won’t arrive in time for Black Friday, but the first Pixel Slate tablets will soon land with customers. After beginning to accept preorders last week, Google now shows estimated shipping times of two to four weeks, depending on which model you buy.  Announced at Google’s October event, the Pixel Slate is a Chrome OS tablet that follows in the footsteps of Microsoft’s Surface tablet. Google …

Read More »

The Google Pixel Slate is now available for preorder

The Google Pixel Slate is now available for preorder, having being announced last month at Google’s October event. The Pixel Slate is a Chrome OS tablet, but thanks to Google’s additional Pixel Keyboard ($199) and Pixelbook Pen ($99) you can use it as a Microsoft Surface-like convertible, or as a cheaper alternative to the Google Pixelbook. Now playing: Watch this: …

Read More »