Remember when Chromebooks first launched with the pitch that they’d be cheap and all they’d need to run was a web browser, so you didn’t have to worry about specs? Yeah. Well, they mostly lived up to the cheap part, but the specs … those are hit or miss. To address this, Google recently rolled out a big upgrade called Chromebook Plus, an umbrella category for a new class of devices from various manufacturers.
The “Plus” stands for better performance—faster processors, more memory, more storage, and better video cameras. The suprising thing is that the prices … are still cheap. Even more amazing than