Chrome Show: Low-cost Windows laptops v. Chromebooks

The Chrome Show 2014

The Chromebook-killers are almost here: This week HP introduced a pair of low-cost laptops that run Microsoft Windows 8.1 with Bing. From a hardware perspective, they’re similar to Chromebooks. And Microsoft is wisely bundling some items that add value to the computers, which start at $199. You’ll get to access Microsoft Office 365 Personal and 15 GB of OneDrive storage for a year, which is a shot across the bow at Google and its Chromebook offers.

How well will this play out for Microsoft? There’s potential there but we’ll have to see how the experience is on the new laptops. We discuss that as well as Photoshop on Chromebooks and Mozilla’s new Chromecast competitor on this week’s Chrome Show podcast.

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SHOW NOTES:

Today’s Chrome Show is sponsored by Exoprise.

Hosts: Janko Roettgers and Kevin C. Tofel

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Google Drive goes unlimited for education

The low-cost Windows devices are here: How will they fare against Chromebooks?

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Chromecast comes with 2 months of Hulu Plus now in the US

Mozilla’s Firefox Matchstick is set to battle the Chromecast

Acer has a touchscreen version of the Tegra-powered Chromebook for the U.K.

App/extension of the week: Chrome APK Packager

 

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