Don’t take it as a joke just because, there is room for Chromebooks gaming and the idea does not come from now. Not much less. In fact, for years Google has been enhancing Chrome OS – the Linux-based OS that governs these laptops known as Chromebooks – with functions beyond what a system that revolves around the web browser can give.
And it is not that, today, doing everything through the browser is not a small thing: the web has undergone a substantial evolution in the last decade and, to a large extent, it has been thanks to Google and its Chrome, which in the form of Chrome OS and Chromebooks have raised the stakes unexpectedly. The Chromebooks gaming They are just one more consequence of it.
Thus, after the support of Android applications and Linux applications and before doing the same with Windows applications via Wine, Google was already working on bringing -or at least, favoring the approach- of Steam for Chrome OS. This was the first ‘assault’ to what we could call the Chromebook phase gaming which is about to be completed.
Of course, the lack of power of Chromebooks, with few exceptions, is a handicap for those who want to turn these teams into a feasible playing field: the limited potential catalog is added -or rather, subtracted- everything that is left out due to lack of hardware to move it. But there was also a solution for that.
Do you like colors? Gaming Chromebooks with RGB keyboards are on the way
Currently you only need a good internet connection to enjoy top-tier games without the right hardware, thanks to services like GeForce Now or Google Stadia itself, which the company promotes with the sale of each Chromebook. What’s the icing on the cake, then, to deliver a full Chromebook experience? gaming? Devices that honored the tagline, of course.
Some had already: the ASUS Flip CX5 is one of those that could be considered a Chromebook gaming, with reservations. However, the term gaming It is associated in electronic devices to other details apart from pure and hard hardware and the RGB lighting It is one of them. Whether it is a detail with pleasure or not, that is another story.
The point is that they have caught a recent change in the Chrome OS code that will allow the system to offer support for keyboards with RGB lighting, something a bit strange a priori because no peripheral of this type needs the system to work, so it is understood that it would be a novelty aimed at Chromebooks gaming that are about to appear.
In short, Google does not do things without a reason behind it and if there are already Chromebooks with backlit keyboards, there are still no RGB lighting. So give it some time if you are interested in the invention, because it will become a reality sooner rather than later.
