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I saw a "gaming Chromebook" for $649 (USD) at the big box electronics and appliance store today.
At first I was astounded, but it did have a high refresh rate display and some type of GeForce iGPU. Apparently designed around cloud gaming. Which is na interesting use case.
Maybe designed to be used with googles Stadia (now defunct I think)?
Stadia has been abandoned for long enough I don't think it'd be used in marketing.
This was the description:
Acer - Chromebook 516 GE Cloud Gaming Laptop - 16" 2560x1600 120Hz - Intel Core i5-1240P - 8GB RAM - 256GB SSD
Looks like it comes with 3 months of GeForce Now and Amazon Luna.
I was mistaken about the GeForce iGPU - that placard must've been for GeForce Now. It has an Iris Xe.
I think I saw Xbox Game pass in the marketing too.
Still, pretty cool idea.
I think they're also working on getting Steam running. I don't remember how that's going, though.