At the ‘Learning With Google’ event that took place a few days ago, a lot of new information was given about the work that goes on behind the scenes regarding Google services for the education sector. Michael probably discussed the biggest changes that took place for both teachers and students in the transition from G Suite for Education to Google Workspace for Education, but there was also some news regarding new Chromebooks focused on education.
Google launches a whopping 40+ new Chromebooks, and while they did not really highlight any of the specs of these new Chromebooks, they did show that some of them were quickly rolling over the screen. Some of these Chromebooks are already available, so it’s not clear what that means with ‘new Chromebooks’ for education. Either way, there will be a bunch of new Chrome OS devices that schools can opt for this year, so we should not have any of the inventory issues we saw during 2020.
‘Limousine’ accidentally appears
As we all know here, Chromebooks are being developed with code names. We refer to them regularly and every Chrome OS device has a silly code name until it is officially launched. For example, we watched ‘Nightfury’ for a year and only learned its real name a few months ago – The Samsung Galaxy Chromebook 2.
Similarly, we tracked ‘Limozeen’ as one of a handful of Qualcomm Snapdragon-powered Chromebooks on the horizon. We got our hands on each other early in ‘Lazor’ and expect ‘Coachz’ with great anticipation until it arrives, but these names are merely placeholders for development equipment until the Chromebook is ready to make a more public appearance. Watch what we see in the video below at 1:10:39:
It looks like someone is not paying much attention to any of the upcoming Chromebooks featured in the video, and the code’s name has been dropped right below it. Make no mistake: this Chromebook will definitely not be marketed under the name ‘Limozeen’. This is simply the Acer Chromebook 511 and will come on the market as such. But at least we all know what this particular Chromebook development board is for right now, right?
With so many Chromebooks coming and such quirky model names plaguing these devices so often, it’s likely to happen. For what it’s worth, it’s great to see at least one of these Snapdragon 7c Chromebooks made for students and as a Device always connected with LTE under the hood. Qualcomm obviously makes a lot of processors and SoCs with LTE as part of the comparison, so it makes sense to see this option appear for an education device. We will also expect to see LTE versions of upcoming MediaTek devices, as well as the rest of 2021. This is going to be a very, very nice year.
