ASUS Makes the C200 Chromebook Official

Today, Intel and Google had their own Chrome event today, where they announced all kinds of goodies. Like Bay Trail processors for their upcoming Chromebooks from all kinds of OEMs. ASUS new C200 Chromebook is powered by Bay Trail and features an 11.6-inch 1366x768 display, along with 2GB of RAM. It also has 16GB of SSD storage. For those interested, the exact processor being used is the Intel Celeron N2830. It also has Bluetooth 4.0, a USB 3.0 port, a USB 2.0 port, HDMI jack, audio jack, and SDXC card slot. Additionally it should last about 11 hours or longer on a single charge, which is an improvement on the Haswell chips we saw last year in a number of Chromebooks.

Google and Intel Holding a Chrome OS Press Event Next Week

Intel and Google have announced that they are holding a joint press conference next week where they will announce some sort of collaboration together involving Chrome OS. The event is scheduled for next Wednesday, May 6th. So far there's no details on what Google and Intel have planned to announce, but this wouldn't be the first time that the two companies have worked together on Chrome OS.

ASUS C200 Chromebook Said to have "All Day Battery Life"

All day battery life reportedly in ASUS' first Chromebook, the C200

All day battery life is amazing. It's something we want from all of our products, right? Especially laptops and Chromebooks. But it's not always a reality. However, it appears to be with the ASUS C200, which is not actually out yet.

New Chromebooks Announced last Week Does NOT Mean the Pixel Won't Get Updated

When Google introduced us to the Chromebook Pixel earlier this year, we were in love. That was until we saw the price of it. We had all gotten used to Google pushing out great devices at dirt-cheap prices. Like the Samsung and Acer Chromebooks, not to mention the Nexus 4, Nexus 7 and Nexus 10. Last week, Intel announced that there are four new Chrome devices from ASUS, Acer, Toshiba and HP that will be running on their new Haswell chips. Many people took that as meaning that we will not see a Pixel 2.

This idea surfaced from a PC World report last Thursday:

“While the new Chromebooks are expected to be flagship products for their respective brands, don’t expect a repeat of the Chromebook Pixel that product, which paired an Intel “Ivy Bridge” Core processor with an incredible 2560-by-1700 pixel touch display, was a “prototype” to show off the power of the Chromebook platform and will not be repeated, Caesar Sengupta, director of product management at Google, told a small roundtable of reporters on Wednesday.”

This would have really made a few people upset, not to mention everyone who attended Google I/O this year and got a Chromebook Pixel. The Pixel is a great device which we'd hate to see be a one-and-done device. The folks at GigaOm reached out to Google for a comment on this matter:

"We did not say that Pixel will not be repeated; we don't comment on the future or unannounced products. At launch we said Pixel was designed to bring together the best in hardware, software and design to inspire the next generation of Chromebooks, and to work with the ecosystem to continue  to push the experience forward for touch and high-DPI web. We see that playing out."

So while Google didn't say the Pixel was done, they also didn't say if we'd see a new Pixel. Although it sounds pretty promising that we will see another one probably sometime in 2014. Hopefully they will release two versions, one that's a bit cheaper would be nice to see.