About Chromebooks

On Wednesday, November 11, parents, students and activists rallied outside Google offices in seven US cities against the company’s new rules for AI on school accounts. Schools can now leave the Gemini chatbot off and still keep Google Search, but there is no version of Search without its built-in AI. The protests came after a lawsuit and a senator’s ...

Android Central’s review of the Lenovo Googlebook 15, published November 12, 2026, tells shoppers to skip it. The reviewer liked the hardware a lot but says Googlebook OS is weak enough that no Googlebook is worth buying at these prices yet. If you’re comparing Lenovo’s 15-inch model with a Chromebook or a regular ultrabook, this matters, because the...

Googlebooks started getting Chrome 157 on November 12, 2026. The one fix written for these laptops repairs web apps that wouldn’t install or open. If you’ve pinned sites to your taskbar through Chrome, update now instead of waiting for it to reach you on its own.

Chrome Unboxed reports that the Googlebook fix targets the “Install page as app” ...

Google is rolling out ChromeOS LTS-150 version 150.0.7871.289 (platform version 16700.70.0) to most devices on the Long-Term Support channel. That’s the slower update track schools and businesses can choose for their managed Chromebooks. The release is dated November 11, 2026 and adds no new features: it lists 62 security fixes, and six of them carry...

A new Intel Googlebook board called Pelion has turned up in Chromium’s public code. That’s good news for anyone waiting on a cheaper Googlebook. Pelion runs Intel’s Core Series 3 chips, codenamed Wildcat Lake, and it brings the number of boards in development on that platform to nine. If the first wave’s prices kept you on a Chromebook, this is the family to watch.

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