For many years, most Chromebook have been working in some variety of Intel or AMD processor. In the case of a random device, a MediaTek chip was used, but they were often insufficient and cheap devices that were difficult to recommend. ARM -based processors worked very well for Apple on the Mac, and they are also used for more and more PCs with Windows. Now Lenovo (manufacturers My favorite chromabuk) And Google give ARM a real shot with Chromebook for $ 649 plus 14.
Companies say that the MediaTek Kompanio Ultra 910 chip and its AI NPU can cope with 50 tops, but for me more intriguing, Lenovo also promises up to 17 hours of battery operation. I will believe this statement when I see it; The mediation at best of autonomous work haunts almost every Chromebook that I used in recent years. But the transition to ARM can improve what Chromebook from Intel was delivered, both in terms of autonomous work and general performance.
Time for invented specifications. Chromebook Lenovo Plus 14, as expected, is a 14-inch laptop that looks very similar to Silver MacBook Pro. This is certainly more stylish and smooth than more utilitarian (and awkward) IDEAPAD FLEX 5I Chromebook Plus Lenovo. It weighs only 2.58 pounds (about a pound less than Flex 5i) and is only more than 0.62 inch thick. In addition to the Kompanio Ultra 910 chip, Lenovo includes either 12 GB, or 16 GB of RAM and up to 256 GB of storage. Lenovo also does not slip on the screen. A 14-inch OLED panel can be equipped with a touch screen and has a resolution of 1,920 x 1200. The resolution is relatively modest, but is fully consistent with what you expect from the price.
There are several other pleasant strokes everywhere. The last thing Lenovo is the first Chromebook with Dolby Atmos Sound through a system with four speakers, which includes two descending subwoofers. The sound quality on laptops has increased significantly in recent years, so I look forward to the opportunity to hear what Lenovo can deliver. The 5-megapixel webcam has a much higher resolution than most of the other Chromebook, as well as there is a fingerprint reader for safe entering the system.
In general, this Chromebook is on a more expensive side compared to many other options. But when you compare its specifications and design with other chromatic in this price range, Lenovo “Latest” comes out quite well. Of course, we need to make sure that the MediaTek chip is quite powerful, and also see what the time of autonomous work seems to be, but the Lenovo track record is strong enough, that I look forward to the opportunity to see if we have a new Chromebook king.
New functions of artificial intelligence
Considering that Google is steadily focused on adding functions of artificial intelligence wherever you turn, it is not surprising that there are several new tricks of artificial intelligence. Firstly, two, which are currently exclusive for Chromebook Lenovo Plus 14: Smart Grouping and editing II images in the Chromebook Galry application. Google has long been teasing a smart group; He will consider your open tabs and documents and ask if you want to organize them in a separate virtual table. And in the gallery application now there are some editing functions with AI, such as removing the background or turning your images into stickers.
In addition, a bunch of artificial intelligence functions that come to all Chromebook Plus laptops, many of which will be familiar if you pay attention to the fact that Google has released for other platforms in recent months. For example, now you can continue to compress the launchers and select the screen area to run the search. As usual, the default example is purchases – see a couple of necessary shoes, you want Google to find them for you. Integration looks beautiful, using a window showing you the results, so you do not need to leave the application you use.
In the same way, the text captures the text in the image and offers things such as the appointments of the calendar, based on what he reads. Or selecting an image of the recipe can draw all the elements necessary for it into the Google list list.
Quick Insert Key, which was first presented last year on Samsung Galaxy Chromebook PlusNow you can use it for generating and inserting the images of AI in wherever your text cursor indicates – it is not limited to Google applications. Finally, the Google tool “Help me reading” has a new version of “simplify”, which can take a complex language (for example, scientific explanations) and place it in a simple language to facilitate understanding.
Anyone who buys Chromebook Plus this year will receive a solid perk that Google first introduced last year: the full 12 months of the Google One Ai Pro plan, which includes 2 TB of the Google Drive storage and access to the more advanced Gemini functions (you can Find all the exact details here) Given that this is a plan of $ 20 per month, this is a solid additional cost – at least for storage, if you are not all that is interested in twins.
As for the new Lenovo equipment, I look forward to the opportunity to try it soon to see if the ARM architecture can provide a huge battery life and improve the performance that the company promises. But if you want to reject your money now, Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14 is available in Best Buy and On the site Lenovo order today. (Please note that at least at the moment, only a more expensive version of Chromebook Plus 14 with a touch screen on 16 GB of RAM is available on Best Buy.)