Google is preparing to launch the “Chromebook X” brand to boost sales High-end laptops with Chrome OS. They will be manufactured by their OEM partners, will have some exclusive software features and will have to have a higher level of hardware. The brand should start next Christmas season, they say from 9to5Google citing unknown sources.

In the past few years, we’ve seen Chromebooks become a real and viable alternative to Windows laptops or those from Apple. In addition to Google’s work on improving the capabilities of Chrome OS and increasing the number of supported applications, including those for Android or Linux, its partners have also increased the level of hardware, internal and external in the quality of construction and surface treatments. A significant leap from the original Chromebooks, which were more focused on the basic and education sector.

Chromebook X: Best Chromebooks?

This group of laptops should have better screens than average for the platform, in resolution and refresh rate. They would use it too the latest generation of processors, starting with 12th Gen Intel Core and AMD ZEN 3. They would include more RAM and higher resolution webcams. We assume PCIe SSDs would be the standard for storage and not the much slower, lower capacity eMMC format.

there would be too software news and Chromebook Xs will have a special home screen to highlight them and exclusive wallpapers. In addition to improving the quality of the webcam, Google would offer unique features such as live transcription (which adds generated captions to video calls), a built-in portrait blur effect and “voice isolation”.

The video game They are one of the few sections where the Chromebook is relegated to a Windows PC, so it would also be improved. These laptops would come pre-installed with Steam and have enough capacity to run cloud games such as Amazon Luna, NVIDIA GeForce Now or Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, in addition to all those available on the official Play Store.

We will see if these X Chromebooks are confirmed and if it is more about marketing or aesthetics than anything else, because there are already very good Chromebooks on the market and we can mention the recent Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming or the ASUS Chromebook CX34 Flip Convertible as an example.