Nobody needs a Chromebook with a 4K screen

Word on the street is a Chromebook with a 4K display might be in the works. At least that's what source code from Google's Chromium OS suggests.

The Chromebook, codenamed "Atlas," would be the first clamshell running Google's Chrome OS, to  sport such a high-res screen. Cool beans, but do Chromebooks even need that many pixels?

No, they dont.

Google launched Chromebooks as a way to undercut Macs and Windows laptops. Chrome OS's whole shtick was supposed to make computers cheaper by removing all the traditional local OS stuff and replacing them with powerful cloud-based alternatives. Read more...