The Lenovo Chromebook Plus with an OLED display. Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET
Chromebooks are continuing to level up. Google just announced a host of new AI features live in ChromeOS now, along with the Lenovo Chromebook Plus, an all-new device with an OLED display, up to 16GB of RAM, and up to 17 hours of battery life -- the most of any Chromebook to date.
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I recently had a chance to go hands-on with the Lenovo Chromebook Plus at an event at Google's New York campus, and was impressed with its sleek physical form, great-looking display, and attractive starting price of $649.
Under the hood, Lenovo chose to go with the MediaTek Kompanio Ultra processor -- the first Chromebook Plus to feature an Arm-based chip. It's similar to what we saw last year with the 11-inch Chromebook Duet, but this device is significantly more powerful with up to 50 TOPS for AI-powered tasks, support for two external monitors at 4K, and Wi-Fi 7 -- not to mention a suite of AI-powered features in ChromeOS.
The display on the Lenovo Chromebook Plus is crisp and adequately bright at 400 nits and 1920 x 1200 WUXGA resolution. It's not a 2-in-1, but it can come with a touchscreen, which will bring the price up to $749.
It also comes with AI-powered features that are unique to the device. First, you'll be able to use "Smart grouping", which allows ChromeOS to bring together similar browser tabs and documents based on their content. For those of us with several dozen browser tabs open at any moment, this could certainly be an organizational game-changer.
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