Here are the Chromebooks that should support gaming with Steam

Once approved by Google two years ago, Chrome OS is closer than ever to official game support via Steam. 9to5Google has unveiled the first Chromebooks to support Steam games.

When we first looked at Google's efforts to run Steam games on Chrome OS, codenamed Borealis, all indications were that things started with Chromebooks built with 10 core Intel processors. Of course, a year and a half has passed since then without any An indication of when Steam will launch for Chromebooks.

However, things may finally be in the final setup stages. According to a basic note as of January, Google now has solid "timelines" for when Steam will ship in Chrome OS. It may be directly related to the partner companies of Chrome OS. Google like Lenovo and HP are most likely running Chromebooks with RGB keyboards marketed by gamers.

With a recently published code change, Google has provided an initial list of supported Chromebook models, along with some additional minimum specs they'll need to have. Currently, the list consists mostly of Acer and ASUS Chromebooks.

Later in the code, we found that not every version of Chromebook will work, due to some additional requirements. At a minimum, your Chromebook must have an Intel Core i5 or i7 (11th generation) processor and at least 7GB of RAM. On almost all Chromebooks, except for those in the top and middle band.

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إليك أجهزة Chromebook التي يجب أن تدعم الألعاب باستخدام Steam

However, there's plenty of time to expand this list in the coming weeks and months. It's worth noting that none of the above Chromebooks with RGB keyboards are currently listed as supported. We've also seen evidence that Google has tested Steam on older Intel Core processors. From the tenth generation also processors chips from AMD, every last in October.

Another interesting piece of information is that Nvidia appears to be directly involved in developing Steam support for Chrome OS, with a number of software changes being developed and posted by Nvidia employees. Nvidia should already have a bigger presence in Chrome OS thanks to this collaboration with MediaTek.

At the same time, Nvidia is actively enabling Chromebooks to have a discrete graphics card - or "dGPU", used exclusively for heavy use - that will only be used by the virtual machine that Steam will use. Since there are no Chromebooks on the current list offered by dGPU, There are definitely more supported models that will be added in the future.

However, it's clear that Google has strong ambitions for gaming on Chrome OS in the near future and possibly in the coming years, including a whole new type of Chromebook gaming device on the horizon to better support Steam. It should be interesting to see how Google has been able to adapt Steam in Chrome OS to its broader vision of gaming with things like Stadia and Google Play Games on PC.