Here’s How School IT Teams Can Efficiently Manage Chromebooks

March 23, 2022

As adoption of Chromebooks in education continues to grow, schools and districts have come to rely on Google Workspace for Education for student safety and success. And given the wide selection of Chrome OS devices, K–12 schools tend to primarily focus on selecting the devices that best meets their needs. They rightfully focus on features such as screen size, touch capability, ruggedization and cost. What’s under the hood becomes less important compared with durability and what the student experience will be.
However, when it comes to managing thousands of Chromebooks, most understaffed K–12…

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Google announces Chromebooks for gaming: the $650 16″ Acer Chromebook 516 GE, the $599 16″ Lenovo IdeaPad, and the $399 15.6″ ASUS Chromebook Vibe CX55 Flip (Nathan Ingraham/Engadget)

Nathan Ingraham / Engadget:
Google announces Chromebooks for gaming: the $650 16″ Acer Chromebook 516 GE, the $599 16″ Lenovo IdeaPad, and the $399 15.6″ ASUS Chromebook Vibe CX55 Flip — ASUS, Acer and Lenovo built Chromebooks optimized to run services like GeForce Now. — Three new laptops from ASUS, Acer and Lenovo

October 11, 2022

Chrome OS Flex Extends the Life of K–12 Districts’ Hardware

K–12 school districts thinking of mothballing their aging fleets of laptops and other end-user computing devices now have an opportunity to give them a new…

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Google announces Chrome will get a Memory Saver mode, which promises to cut memory usage by up to 30%, and an Energy Saver mode, rolling out in the coming weeks (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google announces Chrome will get a Memory Saver mode, which promises to cut memory usage by up to 30%, and an Energy Saver mode, rolling out in the coming weeks — Google today announced two new performance settings in its Chrome browser: Memory Saver and Energy Saver.

December 8, 2022

Google announces Chrome will get a Memory Saver mode, which promises to cut memory usage by up to 30%, and an Energy Saver mode, rolling out in the coming weeks (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

December 8, 2022

Sources: Twitter teams hit hardest by the layoffs span product trust and safety, policy, and fighting election misinformation ahead of next week’s US midterms (The Verge)

The Verge:
Sources: Twitter teams hit hardest by the layoffs span product trust and safety, policy, and fighting election misinformation ahead of next week’s US midterms — About half of Twitter’s 7,500 employees are now gone, with teams focused on trust and safety issues hit the hardest.

November 4, 2022

Google adds tablet-friendly features to Chrome on Android, including a visual tab grid, tab groups, and a side-by-side design (Florence Ion/Gizmodo)

Florence Ion / Gizmodo:
Google adds tablet-friendly features to Chrome on Android, including a visual tab grid, tab groups, and a side-by-side design — The update brings abilities like tabs and a drag-and-drop mode, but it’s for Android tablets only. — Alerts — Dear Android tablet users, there’s some good news.

October 18, 2022

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