Toshiba is introducing its first Chrome OS laptop, cleverly called the Toshiba Chromebook. It’s a 13 inch laptop with a $280 price tag and an Intel Celeron 2955U Celeron processor. In other words, for the same price as the HP Chromebook 11 you get a device with a bigger display, a faster processor, and possibly […]
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Lilbits (12-30-2013): Next-gen Samsung Chromebook?
Samsung has been a key player in the Chrome OS space since the beginning. The company was one of the first to release a Chromebook. Samsung was the first company to launch a model with an ARM-based processor. And… that’s about it for now. Samsung’s last new Chromebook was launched in late 2012Â and the hardware […]
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Chromebooks climb up the notebook sales charts
It’s easy to dismiss Chromebooks with a simple statement: “There’s nothing you can do on a Chromebook that you couldn’t do with a Windows, Linux, or OS X laptop with the Chrome browser installed.” And that’s kind of true… but it also misses a few points. First, sometimes less is more — and Chromebooks are […]
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HP Chromebook 11 available again for $279
The HP Chromebook 11 is a small, inexpensive laptop with a low-power ARM-based processor and Google’s Chrome operating system. HP and Google launched the Chromebook 11 in October, but pulled it from store shelves a month later due to overheating chargers. Now the HP Chromebook 11 is available for purchase again. Amazon is selling the […]
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LG Chromebase is an all-in-one desktop running Chrome OS
If Android is Google’s mobile operating system, then Chrome OS is the company’s desktop OS… as in, it has a desktop-like user experience. But so far most devices that have shipped with Chrome OS have been laptops. Now LG is shaking things up a bit with an all-in-one desktop PC that just happens to run […]
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Hands-on: Dell Chromebook 11 is intended for the classroom
Just ahead of this year’s Dell World the company announced a new 11.6 inch Chromebook, set to come out in January, 2014. As far as Chrome OS machines go, the Dell Chromebook 11 is pretty standard: Celeron 2955U processor, 16GB SSD for storage, 2GB or 4GB of RAM, and 1366 x 768 display resolution. With […]
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Dell launches Chromebook 11 for education
Dell is introducing its first Chromebook, and it’s an 11 inch laptop aimed at the education market. The Dell Chromebook 11 features an 11.6 inch display and an Intel Celeron processor based on Haswell architecture. The laptop weighs 2.9 pounds and Dell says it should get up to 10 hours of battery life, which could […]
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Lilbits (12-04-2013): Reversible USB plugs
Since the dawn of time (or at least of USB ports), folks have been struggling to insert plugs the right way up. Odds are you’ve poked the wrong end of a plug into a phone or PC at one point or another while trying to charge your device, connect a flash drive, hook up a […]
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Video recording, picture sync coming to Chrome OS camera app
Google is working on an update to the camera app that comes with Chrome OS, adding new features including support for video recording, the ability to upload straight to YouTube or Google Plus, and an option to synchronize pictures across all of your Chrome devices. While those features are still a way off, the first […]
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Lilbits (11-26-2013): Cheaters never win (unless they’re not caught)
Want to know which phone, tablet, or PC has the fastest processor? You might turn to benchmarking tests like Antutu or 3DMark. These tests don’t always paint a solid picture of real-world performance, but they can at least help you figure out which device performs certain CPU or GPU-intensive tasks the quickest. Or at least […]