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get ready more Chromebooks are coming I'm Bridget Carey and this is your CNET update you'll be hearing quite a bit about Chromebooks this year chrome is Google's operating system and Intel is making a big push into these cheaper computers Intel's chips are in more than 20 Chrome machines coming this year from different manufacturers the new models have faster processors and longer battery life Lenovo jumped in to Chromebooks for the first time with the n20 and the n 20p both of these are small 11 inch screens but the N 20 P has a hinge to fold the touchscreen back 300° asus also has two Chromebooks and it made the second-ever 13 inch screen Chromebook which you can pick up for 250 dollars in June Chromebooks are also targeted for students google says about 10,000 schools right now use Chromebooks and Lenovo and Dell are targeting their new models to the education crowd but there are also desktop versions the HP Chromebooks comes in several colors you may want to connect it to your TV when it arrives in June there's also the LG chrome base for 350 dollars it's the first Chrome all-in-one desktop PC chrome is a good affordable option if you do most of your work online but you can't just download any program to these computers since it's not Windows or Mac now along with a push for Chromebooks in school google also has an online service for teachers called classroom it's like a Google Drive for documents just for teachers and student assignments Google says it will be free of advertisements and it'll cost nothing for a school to use it Google tested it with more than a dozen schools teachers can apply to be the first to preview it but it'll roll out officially in September and today I like to end the show with some helpful tech advice about business cards let's face it business cards can be such a hassle to manage your pile keeps stacking up and then trying to find the one you need is simply a nightmare well don't despair you can use your smartphone to easily save a card digitally the Evernote converts a card by taking a photo of it and Evernote just added a feature to sync a business card with LinkedIn profiles now once you scan a card you can send a connection request to that person on LinkedIn but keep in mind when you send that LinkedIn request you can't write a custom message it just sends out that awful default line that says since you are personal I trust I like to add you to my network yeah well that's pretty tacky so you may be better off just sending them an email later that's your tech news update you can head to cnet.com for more details from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey