April 4, 2013
The Chromebook is a form factor that splits opinion, as we previously discovered when we asked you what you thought of the netbook-like devices from Google. However, the Chromebook isn't going away anytime soon, with Google expanding the number of markets it's selling Chromebooks in. What follows are Web resources that could prove invaluable to any Chromebook owner.
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March 20, 2013
Google announced yesterday that it will be rolling out its affordable Chromebooks (in the Acer, HP and Samsung models) to the following international markets: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, and The Netherlands. In the U.S. market, Google will be expanding its Chromebook availability to more than 1,000 Best Buy stores nationwide, doubling the number of stores Chromebooks are presently sold in.
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March 6, 2013
The Chromebook has been with us since the end of 2010, when Google introduced a prototype of the new form factor that was never put up for sale. In 2011 the first commercial Chromebook devices showed up, and these have done reasonably well ever since. There are more affordable Chromebooks on the way, but Google surprised almost everybody when it took the wraps off of the not-affordable-to-most Chromebook Pixel.
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February 28, 2013
Google recently unveiled the Chromebook Pixel, a high-end machine priced at $1299. That's a lot of money for a Chromebook, a form factor which has previously been marketed as being for those on a budget. Previous models of the Chromebook were all priced much lower, with these always-online computers designed to undercut Windows laptops. Whether anyone actually buys a Chromebook Pixel or not remains to be seen.
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February 18, 2013
People today are constantly on the move and connected to the Internet, doing anything from creating presentations to checking emails to chatting with friends to playing games. People use all sorts of devices to accomplish these tasks, primarily via smartphones because they're so mobile. However, they're nowhere near as power as an actual computer, but traditional computers tend to have low battery life. The geniuses over at Google have thought about these issues and created their solution: the Chromebook. We'll be taking a look at the Samsung Chromebook Series 3, and giving it away at the end of this review!
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May 17, 2012
Google’s launch of Chrome OS was one of 2011’s most disappointing moments. Perhaps the biggest disappointment of Chrome OS was its performance. Since then, Google has been gradually updating Chrome OS. The user experience has improved significantly. Here are five reasons to go back and give it another go.
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December 31, 2011
Like this idea of Chrome OS, but don't want to fork out money for a ChromeBook? Good news! Chromium Lime brings the Chrome OS experience to a huge number of laptops and netbooks, thanks to a wide variety of drivers added by developer Hexxeh.
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November 24, 2011
This past summer, two Chromebooks were released, and then not much happened. The Acer and Samsung models, neither of which was considered great value for money, toiled on without any major hardware or software updates. Even Google preferred to stay silent. There’s nothing like a holiday shopping season to lower prices, however.
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