Intel executives Herman Eul and Stephen Smith at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.
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Intel shows new Haswell Chromebooks and plans to make 3D gestures commonplace

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SAN FRANCISCO — Google and Intel announced four new models of Chromebooks today that use the codenamed Haswell processors that Intel released earlier this summer. The new models from Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Asus, and Toshiba were revealed at the Intel Developer Forum today.

The ChromeBooks have battery lives at about nine or 10 hours, and they have a range of display sizes. They look like normal thin laptops, but they don’t run Microsoft Windows. Instead, they sport Google’s Chrome OS. The Chromebooks are expected to cost under $300 for Wi-Fi-only models. Sales of Chromebooks have been strong; the No. 1 laptop on Amazon.com is a Chromebook.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.