Mini-review: 24 hours with Dell’s fanciest Chromebook yet

Enlarge (credit: Valentina Palladino) Dell is no stranger to Chromebooks. In fact, the Dell Chromebook 11 is our current favorite Chromebook for students with its simple, durable black frame and attractive price tag. Most of Dell’s Chrome OS notebooks share those useful traits, so when the company stepped out of the box and debuted its […]

Acer Chromebook Tab 10 review: Chrome OS revives Google’s tablet future

Enlarge / Hellllloooooo Chrome OS tablets. (credit: Valentina Palladino) Chrome OS took over schools with clamshells, but now Google is shaking things up with slabs. After a spring announcement, Acer has built the first Chrome OS tablet, the $ 329 Chromebook Tab 10, to give teachers and students a more flexible device to use for […]

Snapdragon-based Chromebook could rival always-connected PCs

You don’t have great choices for non-Intel processors on Chromebooks at the moment — the Rockchip-made parts you often see in low-end systems keep costs down, but they struggle with intensive tasks. That might not be an issue in the future. About Chromebooks has discovered multiple code submissions hinting at “Cheza,” a 2-in-1 detachable Chromebook […]

HP jumps on Chrome OS tablet bandwagon with new Chromebook x2

HP Acer ushered in the “Chromebook tablet” era with its Chromebook Tab 10 slab last month, and HP wasted no time entering the new space. The company announced the Chromebook x2, a Chrome OS detachable with a keyboard and Wacom AES stylus that isn’t meant to be confined to the classroom. While Acer’s tablet is […]

Chrome OS tablets are official—Meet the Acer Chromebook Tab 10

Acer Chrome OS tablets have been expected for years, and today Acer and Google are finally teaming up to launch the first ever Chrome tablet: the Chromebook Tab 10. It’s a pretty standard budget tablet hardware with Chrome OS loaded on it. There’s no keyboard, just a touch screen and a passive Wacom stylus. Google has a blog […]

Acer’s latest Chromebook offers 10 hours of battery for $250

Acer has been releasing Chromebooks balancing speed with affordability. The company introduced its latest Chromebook 11 at CES as a fanless, small-form laptop with touch and non-touch screens that boasts up 10 hours of battery life. While Acer didn’t release exact specs for the models — we only know they’ll sport the ‘latest Intel Celeron […]

HP updates its Chromebook lineup with 11- and 14-inch models

HP is adding two Chromebooks to its lineup, which are essentially refreshed versions of its Chromebook 11 G5 that debuted in June 2016. While both new models feature the same processor, storage and memory options, they differ in size: The Chromebook 14 G5 has a 14-inch screen, while the Chromebook 11 G6 Education Edition caters […]

Google Pixelbook review – Ultimate Chromebook comes at too high a price

GETTY Google Pixelbook review PROS – Good screen • Versatile hinge • Nice keyboard • Stunning design CONS – Chrome OS is limiting • Very expensive • Bezels around the screen are ugly Chromebooks have always offered the ultimate budget computing for those who can’t stretch to an Apple MacBook or top-end Windows PC. But […]