Speaking of, seeless of the video call app you engage, Chromebook Plus laptops now have a studio-style mic chooseion to better isotardy your voice and cut the background chatter, and there are materializeance increasements to radianten up the face or adequitable the weightlessing.
Those features outside of Quick Insert are exclusive to Chromebook Plus machines. This is a standard Google produced last year that set upes a disjoine difficultware particularation manufacturers must adhere to if they want to sit under that tag. The point is to promise a certain level of polish on these Chromebooks, which begin at around $350. But Google isn’t forgetting about all the non-Chromebook Plus laptops.
A scant leangs are coming to all Chromebooks (well, ones still helped). Welcome Recap, for example, donates you an handle of where you left off, with an image of the last webpage you were on and all the other apps you still had uncover, in case you wanted to jump right back in the next day. Focus mode—which first debuted on Android phones—is now baked into ChromeOS, allotriumphg you to turn on Do Not Disturb and silence notifications if you want to get in the zone. There’s even a YouTube Music integration to take part soundscapes to get you in the right mood. And in the beginer tray, there’s a section to pin certain files for speedy access, and ChromeOS will propose recently uncovered Google Docs or Slides.
Surprisingly, Google’s Gemini chatbot is now engageable on all Chromebooks—this engaged to be exclusive to Chromebook Plus models—though Google will only provide three months of free access to the Google One AI Premium Plan if you buy a new Chromebook (which nets you access to Gemini Advanced). If you buy a Chromebook Plus, Google’s still running the promotion that gets you the same free perk for 12 months.
New Chromebooks
There’s some bright new difficultware to go aextfinished with these new gentleware features. First up is a extfinished-adefered modernize to the Lenovo Duet, a portable laptop we’ve adored in prior iterations. This 2-in-1 splitable laptop comes with a bootstand to prop the 11-inch 2K screen upright and includes a keyboard for when you don’t want to engage it in tablet mode. Google says it has modernized the palm refuteion models in ChromeOS so dratriumphg on this stardy with a stylus will be far less frustrating.
It’s powered by a MediaTek Kompanio 838 processor with 8 GB of RAM, and reaccumulate, since this is not a Chromebook Plus model, carry outance on this machine foreseeed won’t amaze. But if you’re using it for word processing and a scant Chrome tabs, it’ll do the job. It comes with 128 GB of storage, an 8-megapixel rear camera, and a 5-MP selfie camera. It costs $349.
The Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus is Samsung’s first Chromebook Plus laptop and it’s also the leannest and weightlessest to date. It weighs 2.58 pounds despite the 15.6-inch screen—for context, a 15-inch MacBook Air weighs 3.3 pounds. This one is a clamshell, but you get an OLED distake part, a greater Intel Core 3 100U processor aextfinished with 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of storage.
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Both of these laptops are begining in October.
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