At the ‘Learning with Google’ event that took place a few days ago, there was a ton of new information provided about the work that is going on behind the scenes in relation to Google services for the education sector. Michael undoubtedly covered the biggest changes that are happening for teachers and students in the transition from G Suite for Education to Google Workspace for Education, but there was also some news about the new education-oriented Chromebooks.
Google advertises more than 40 new Chromebooks along the way, and while they didn’t really highlight any of the specs on these new Chromebooks, they did show some of them flickering across the screen. Some of these Chromebooks are now available, so it’s not clear exactly what they mean by “new Chromebooks” for education. Either way, there will be a ton of new Chrome OS devices coming up for schools to choose from this year, so we shouldn’t have any of the inventory issues we’ve seen over the course of 2020.
‘Limozeen’ makes an accidental appearance
As we all know here, Chromebooks are developed with code names. We refer to them frequently and each Chrome OS device has some silly codename that it uses until officially revealed. For example, we have been monitoring ‘Nightfury’ for a year and only discovered its real name – Samsung Galaxy Chromebook 2 – a few months ago.
Similarly, we are tracking ‘Limozeen’ as one of the few Chromebooks with Qualcomm Snapdragon technology on the horizon. We contacted each other at the very beginning of ‘Lazor’ and look forward to ‘Coachz’ until he arrives, but those names are just placeholders for development hardware until the Chromebook is ready to make a more public appearance. . Check out what we see at 1:10:39 in the video below:
It looks like someone wasn’t paying much attention to one of the next Chromebooks featured in the video, and the code name was placed just below it. Make no mistake: this Chromebook will definitely not be marketed under the name ‘Limozeen’. It’s simply the Acer Chromebook 511 and reach the market as such. But at least we all know what this particular Chromebook development board is destined to become now, right?
With so many Chromebooks coming and model names so weird that they often affect these devices, that was bound to happen eventually. For what it’s worth, it’s amazing to see at least one of these Snapdragon 7c Chromebooks being made for students and coming in as one Always connected device with LTE under the hood. Qualcomm obviously makes a lot of processors and SoCs with LTE as part of the equation, so it makes sense to see this option appear for an educational device. We also hope to start seeing the LTE versions of the next MediaTek devices, as well as the rest of 2021 unfold. It will be a very, very fun year.
