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Steam's beta program for Chromebooks is officially coming to an end on January 1, 2026. As reported by 9to5Google, Chromebook users will now see a pop-up warning when attempting to install Steam, ...

In 2023, Google partnered with different PC makers to create Chromebook Plus—a new line of its stripped-down spin on a laptop running its own OS. The idea was to offer a more powerful version of the ...

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Google has been trying to make the case for years that Chromebooks are more than just web browsers with keyboards and screens. And in 2022 the company introduced a new category of Chromebooks built ...

Google has partnered with NVIDIA to launch GeForce NOW Fast Pass exclusively for Chromebooks. The promotion allows players to skip the queue so they can get right into streaming PC games from their ...

Chromebooks are simple productivity machines, or, as one Apple executive once put it, "cheap testing tools." At least, that was the case a few years ago, before Google made it possible to download ...

Google brought initial support for the Steam game client to Chromebooks way back in early 2022. But at the time it was only available for a handful of Chromebooks, and you had to be running a dev ...

Google has announced a raft of Chromebooks from companies like Lenovo and Acer that focus on something new: gaming. Google's cloud-based operating system gained limited support for Steam earlier this ...

Cloud gaming services allow even relatively meager devices like set top boxes and cheap Chromebooks play the latest and greatest titles. It’s not perfect of course — latency is the number one issue as ...