From PC World: Google is challenging the notion that you can’t game on a Chromebook with…gaming Chromebooks.
We’ve known how to game on a Chromebook for months now, and Google and its partners (Acer, Asus, and Lenovo) have adopted the same approach: stream cloud games from major providers like Microsoft’s Xbox cloud gaming service, Amazon’s Luna, and the GeForce Now service from Nvidia.
What Google is doing, though, is taking modern gaming-class hardware — Core i7 chips from Intel, plus 144Hz+ 1440p displays — and combining them together in premium gaming Chromebooks. On a PC, this approach might cost well over $1,000. In a Chromebook, Google executives say they’re targeting $700 or so as the maximum — in part because they can exclude a pricy GPU and let the cloud do all the work.
And, boy, is it. The natural question one would ask is why build in such high-end displays if the games being streamed to them are only 1080p. In Nvidia’s case that won’t be the case: Andrew Fear, director of product management for GeForce Now, said that the service will deliver 1600p game streaming at 120Hz with RTX effects on — and you’ll get three months of this service tier, with an Nvidia RTX 3080 backing it up, for free with purchase of a new gaming Chromebook.
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