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Chromebooks are cost-effective and great for web-based tasks, and they're highly suitable for office work. Chromebooks generally aren't ideal for heavy creative work due to lower-end hardware on the ...

Chromebooks in the early 2010s weren’t something I would have recommended, but it has been over a decade, and we have stronger Chromebooks than ever. While in no way can these Chromebooks compete with ...

You’ve probably not heard of ChromeOS Flex. It’s Google’s program for turning crusty computers into Chromebooks — which sounds like a neat idea as a concept. But it’s primarily been marketed toward ...

Real Chromebooks have mechanisms in place to prevent installation of alternative OSes, but since this is just PC hardware reinstalling Windows or some flavor of Linux is as easy as providing a boot ...

Chromebooks have been around for almost 15 years, and since their launch, they've made some noble attempts to evolve into something beyond just a super cheap laptop for students. It's been a difficult ...

Upgrading your RAM —Random Access Memory — whether you're getting more RAM or faster RAM, is one of the easiest ways to improve your computer's performance. With upgraded memory, you can multitask ...

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Once again, Microsoft has launched a new fusillade in the anti-Google campaign it calls Scroogled. This one involves an attack on laptops based on Google’s Chromebook platform, and features a ...