Google Rumored to be Working on Premium "Chromebook X" Range

[T0@st]

9to5Google has reported on the possible development of new branding initiatives for higher end Chromebooks—according to sources on the inside. The specialist news site proposes that leadership and marketing teams at Google are not happy about the current and broad labelling of ChromeOS devices. The "Premium" and "Plus" tags are said to be confusing to the customer base—feedback suggests that buyers are finding it difficult to identify higher-end Chromebook variants. There is a perception that models exist in a big indistinguishable pile.

Google is allegedly forming a revised set of new hardware requirements for premium ChromeOS devices—with an internal reference of "Chromebook X" marked for deployment later this year. Insiders did not provide specific details about upper tier laptop specifications, but the publication reckons that variants costing roughly $350 to $500 will sport more potent AMD or Intel SoCs, along with increased RAM allocations. Chromebook X hardware could have exclusive access to specially designed UI and OS functions—including live wallpapers, voice isolation, portrait blur effects and an "X" specific boot-up screen. An upgrade for build quality and materials is also expected, which would be welcome given the Chromebook's reputation for not lasting very long.



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[LabRat 891]

We talking an x86-64 lineup, or just higher clocked and higher core count ARM?

 

[thesmokingman]

Man I loathe chrome books.

 

[sethmatrix7]

We talking an x86-64 lineup, or just higher clocked and higher core count ARM?

Lipstick on a pig type deal

 

[Double-Click]

High-end Chromebook / jumbo shrimp, same difference.

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

We talking an x86-64 lineup, or just higher clocked and higher core count ARM?

AMD already has a lineup of mobile CPUs for Chromebooks - iirc with power limits between U and HS levels.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Chromebooks with more ports would be appreciated. More then 2 USB ports, more then 2 USB C ports, maybe an Ethernet port?

Larger batteries would be nice. 10 hours of usage sounds fine and dandy but some of us can find workloads with more power draw or would just like a bigger battery for better longevity. I'd love to see 70+Wh batteries.

Chips with better iGPUs would be nice, especially with valve's chromeOS beta. ChromeOS can use proton jsut like standard linux.

More RAM and storage.

Man I loathe chrome books.

I quite like them, on the low end they are built WAY better then windows notebooks. A $300 chromebook has better build quality then $800 windows laptops. And for non tech users they are hard to screw up with things like viruses.

I have mine running chromium and quite enjoy it. I can imagine a proper $5-600 premium chromebook would be on par with $1k+ windows machines.

 

[natr0n]

High-end Chromebook / jumbo shrimp, same difference.

when you cook shrimp too much they shrink into oblivion much like mushrooms

 

[kondamin]

can you swap distros without to much trouble?

 

[Chaitanya]

Chromebooks with more ports would be appreciated. More then 2 USB ports, more then 2 USB C ports, maybe an Ethernet port?

Larger batteries would be nice. 10 hours of usage sounds fine and dandy but some of us can find workloads with more power draw or would just like a bigger battery for better longevity. I'd love to see 70+Wh batteries.

Chips with better iGPUs would be nice, especially with valve's chromeOS beta. ChromeOS can use proton jsut like standard linux.

More RAM and storage.


I quite like them, on the low end they are built WAY better then windows notebooks. A $300 chromebook has better build quality then $800 windows laptops. And for non tech users they are hard to screw up with things like viruses.

I have mine running chromium and quite enjoy it. I can imagine a proper $5-600 premium chromebook would be on par with $1k+ windows machines.

Not worth spending money on tech that has locked bootloader and comes with an expiry date.

 

[Minus Infinity]

Man I loathe chrome books.

Glad I'm not the only one. What a waste of resources. If I was given one for free I'd reformat the hard drive and install Linux immediately

 

[Fourstaff]

Is ChromeOS any better than Android for Tablet? Or are they the same thing?

 

[ixi]

For 500e it is possible to buy much powerful laptop that any chromebook will be, why would anyone waste money on these?

 

[Count von Schwalbe]

Is ChromeOS any better than Android for Tablet? Or are they the same thing?

I think ChromeOS is a Linux flavor (yes, android technically is too) that is designed more for desktop. Lot of similarities especially in the UI, but slightly different under the hood.

 

[bonehead123]

Lipstick on a pig type deal

Seriously, like how much "premium" do you need to run a browser-based OS, apps & a few gamz anywayz ?