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The Chromebook team has been pushing Google Gemini AI powers, particularly on the more capable Chromebook Plus label, for a year and change. The new Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14, with a MediaTek processor boasting 50 TOPS, is a good example. Google used the upcoming Lenovo design to showcase Gemini's latest tricks at a press event last week. But I have to confess that I found the laptop itself, particularly its value proposition, more immediately gripping than the latest attempts to sell me a subscription that'll write my emails for me. The Chromebook Plus 14 combines a solid and lightweight build, a 14-inch OLED screen (touchscreen optional), generous memory (12GB or 16GB), and that MediaTek processor.

Google invited me to New York to look at the newest Gemini AI tools going into Chromebooks. But I don't want to talk about that, because it's boring. Instead I want to talk about the new Chromebook models they showed me after: an updated version of Lenovo's mega-popular Chromebook Duet, and a crazy-sleek design from Samsung on the Chromebook Plus platform. The original Chromebook Duet was launched back in 2020, and it turned some heads. With a 10-inch tablet form factor plus a detachable keyboard and kickstand in the box, it was basically a perfect mix between Microsoft's Surface form factor and an iPad's ease of access.

Hey you, cyberpunk wunkderkind ready to shift all the paradigms and break out of every box you can find. Do you want to run a super-powerful, mind-boggling artificial intelligence right on your own computer? Well you can, and you've been able to for a while. But now Nvidia is making it super easy, barely an inconvenience to do so, with a preconfigured generative text AI that runs off its consumer-grade graphics cards. It's called "Chat with RTX," and it's available as a beta right now.