Lenovo Chromebook Duet review: The best value you can get

We live in a world where people no longer use just a single device. While the primary device many find themselves using is their phones, people tend to adapt to different devices as they go about their busy schedules — from phone to laptop to desktop to tablet. As platforms evolve, you’ll find that the software adapts to the hardware and vice versa. In a similar sense, Chrome OS has come a long way since the Google CR-48 — you are no longer confined to “just the Chrome browser” and the interface has transformed to fit the varying types of devices that we use on a daily basis. Enter the Lenovo Chromebook Duet: a 2-in-1 Chromebook tablet that attempts to be an entertainment and productivity device all in one package.

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More tidbits on the upcoming Windows apps for Chromebooks surface

A few days ago, after Google announced its partnership with Parallels to bring Windows apps to Chrome OS, I did a little digging in the repositories to see if I could find any more details about it — oh, the benefits of open source!

Obviously, I know that this is targeted to enterprise users only at the moment, but I found that the feature might land with Chrome OS 85, is codenamed “Plugin VM,” and was running on a dev’s Pixelbook Go. Funnily enough, the devs also made all the bug reports I used private in less than 24 hours of publishing the post. At any rate, today, I discovered some more small details.

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Parallels for Chromebooks might arrive as soon as Chrome OS 85

Earlier this week, Google announced a joint partnership with Parallels, a company that specializes in OS virtualization, to bring full-featured Windows applications such as Microsoft Office to Chrome OS. The announcement, however, indicated that this feature will launch on Chrome Enterprise devices, and we don’t know if at all it will ship to consumers as well, but we certainly hope so.

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Chrome OS will soon get a toggle to disable mouse acceleration

Something that I noted in my review of the Google Pixelbook and Chrome OS was a problem with external mice, specifically with the scroll wheel speed/acceleration. I found its scrolling to be a bit too fast for my taste, and while Chrome OS does let you adjust the mouse cursor speed, there aren’t any options to adjust the mouse acceleration speed.

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Google is officially done making tablets, focused on building new laptops now

In a new report published by Computerworld, Google is officially done making first-party tablets. The company reportedly had two more tablets in the works—both smaller than the current Pixel Slate; however, development on them have since been suspended and employees working on them have been reassigned to various other areas, with most being moved to the laptops division. Google still has plans for more laptops it seems.

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As a longtime Windows user, I made the switch to Chrome OS: How does it fare?

I’m a Google fan, but there has always been one product that I’ve been hesitant to try: Chrome OS, Google’s desktop operating system that powers all Chromebooks on the market. If you’ve ever heard anything about Chromebooks, chances are that you’ve heard the stereotype that it’s just a “glorified web browser.” I’ve been following Chrome OS for years and I know that there is so much more to it now—Android apps, Linux support, etc. But I never actually ditched Windows and exclusively used a Chromebook as my only laptop—until now.

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