Evidence hints at a Galaxy Chromebook with 16GB RAM being developed

Last updated: April 7th, 2020 at twenty:02 UTC+01:00

Samsung is seemingly working on a Milky way Chromebook variant equipped with 16GB of RAM. A commit from the Chromium Repositories discovered past Chrome Unboxed suggests that the 16GB model is in the works, simply there's no information to become by regarding a potential release date.

Samsung appear the Galaxy Chromebook (code name Kohaku) a couple of months ago in i configuration. It packs 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and a Core i5-10210U processor. The same configuration was released in the U.s.a. yesterday for $999.

More storage options would also be welcomed

8GB of RAM for a Chromebook should exist enough for a lot of users. Some models are equipped with one-half of that, and they can handle light work. But for a Chromebook equipped with a beautiful 4K AMOLED display, a 16GB RAM option would probably be welcomed by some prospective Galaxy Chromebook buyers who may want to push the hardware further. Should you skip the 8GB model and wait for the 16GB variant to be appear? It'due south hard to tell.

Every bit however, in that location's no official information regarding the release of a Galaxy Chromebook with 16GB of RAM, so yous might be waiting a long time before it volition exist unveiled. Or not. That's the problem and, in a manner, information technology must be frustrating for buyers to acquire about the possibility of a more powerful model beingness developed, one day after the Galaxy Chromebook was released.

Chrome Unboxed speculates that the model with 16GB of RAM might also pack twice the storage (512GB) of the ongoing model, but there's no hard show to support this theory as of this writing. Either mode, more than storage options would probably brand the Galaxy Chromebook even more appealing. We'll keep you posted if we observe out more.