Hot on the heels of Google I/O, the company's annual developer conference, Google is rolling out updates to ChromeOS and a new flagship laptop to showcase them: the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14. Designed to help take advantage of AI software like Gemini and NotebookLM, the new Chromebook Plus has some impressive specs for a $650 laptop.
Not just dirt-cheap and simple devices for the absolute basics, there are Chromebooks among some of the best laptops currently available. I don't doubt that when I get done testing this new Lenovo, it'll join them.
About the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14
Lenovo's latest Chromebook Plus looks and feels like a premium laptop, but it'll start at only $650 when it arrives in late June. Spending an extra $100 gets you more RAM, twice the storage and a touchscreen. Google says it's the first Chromebook Plus to run on an Arm chip and the first ever to use the MediaTek Kompanio Ultra chip. That should not only give it good AI performance but extraordinary battery life -- up to 17 hours.
MediaTek Kompanio Ultra 910 chip ( 50 TOPS
12GB ( $650 $750
128GB or 256GB UFS 4.0 storage
14-inch, 1,920x1,200-pixel OLED (touchscreen available)
Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4
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