Code changes seem to indicate that Google has killed plans to make a gaming Chromebook with Nvidia RTX GPUs, but does it really matter?
Rumors that Google is working on Chromebooks have been spiraling for years at this point. In 2022, we were really close to gaming Chromebooks becoming a thing, as Google was rumored to be working with Nvidia to create a Chromebook with the power of a next-gen RTX graphics card inside. All those rumors have come crashing down, though, and honestly, it might be for the best.
The idea of a gaming Chromebook might sound fine on paper, but ultimately these machines would probably cause many problems for the users that were talked into buying them. That’s because Google currently utilizes virtual machines (VM) to run many of its apps, and anytime VMs are used, you will be looking at chances for possible performance losses. Sure, it can work fine enough, but it wouldn’t be anywhere near as good as running the apps outside of a VM.
