Acer unveiled the Chromebook Plus Spin 514 with MediaTek’s Kompanio Ultra processor at IFA 2025, combining AI tools, portability, and up to 17 hours of battery life.| NERDS.xyz
Earlier this week, we reported that Google had hit the emergency brake on the ChromeOS 139 update, pulling the new version for all devices after its initial roll-out had already begun. As we speculated at the time, this drastic move was almost certainly due to the discovery of a critical bug that needed to be […]| Chrome Unboxed – The Latest Chrome OS News
Just a few days ago, we posted all about the new features rolling out with the ChromeOS 139 update. While not a massive feature drop, it was set to bring a couple of very useful tools like Desk Sync and the much-needed external touchscreen calibration tool. But if you’ve been smashing that “Check for updates” […]| Chrome Unboxed – The Latest Chrome OS News
The latest version of ChromeOS is now beginning its roll-out to the stable channel, and M139 is here with a couple of very useful, practical features that aim to improve user workflows and fix a long-standing pain point for those who use external touch displays. Let’s take a look at what’s new. Pick up where […]| Chrome Unboxed – The Latest Chrome OS News
The ChromeOS Dev channel is being updated to OS version 16371.28.0 (Browser version 140.0.7339.77) for most ChromeOS devices.| Google Chrome Releases
The ChromeOS Dev channel is being updated to OS version 16371.20.0 (Browser version 140.0.7339.29) for most ChromeOS devices.| Google Chrome Releases
A new LTS version 132.0.6834.241 (Platform Version: 16093.115.0), is being rolled out for most ChromeOS devices. | Google Chrome Releases
M-139, ChromeOS version 16328.55.0 (Browser version 139.0.7258.137), has rolled out to ChromeOS devices on the Stable channel.| Google Chrome Releases
This looks like an ad. But it's just a few recent Chromebooks. In 2011, on my first day at Google, I was asked to pick out a laptop. The choices were slim - a thin Apple MacBook Air or the larger MacBook Pro, a forgettable Windows equivalent, or a Linux device more suitable for engineers. While I had the company's first foray into Chromebooks, the CR-48, at home, in addition to my own personal Mac, picking a Chromebook wasn't even an option. The Web-centric OS, which focused on keeping all da...| louisgray.com
Basically on time, ChromeOS 132 is now rolling out to users. So far, it doesn't appear that this one is ready across the board by any stretch of the imagination, and I'm seeing quite a few older, small-core Intel devices (think N3500, N4000, etc.) still not getting this latest version just yet. ChromeOS 132 was...| Chrome Unboxed - The Latest Chrome OS News
With Google’s recent announcement of support for running real Linux apps on Chrome OS, I picked up a Pixelbook, since I’ve been long awaiting the viability of Chromebooks as development machines. After setting up a dev VM and experimenting with various projects, I found that one Tensorflow application I was playing with would lock up, hard, inside the Crostini VM on my Chromebook. After adding some debug prints, I discovered that virtually any calls into numpy.linalg.inv were hanging. I c...| nelhage debugs shit