In order to make Steam’s arrival on Chrome OS systems a success, it seems, among other things, that those systems will need more powerful graphics hardware and, conversely, Crostini will have to offer hardware acceleration of graphics.
For example, it seems more like a statement from the writer than actually information from a source.
The next question, or course, is just what sorts of games would just be worth playing on a Chromebook when run directly on local hardware. Currently, most Chromebooks have extremely limited 3D acceleration performance, with only the most recent devices like Samsung’s Galaxy Chromebook possessing vaguely passable GPUs. Liu said we could expect that to change: more powerful Chromebooks, especially AMD Chromebooks, are coming. Liu would not explicitly confirm that any of these models would contain discrete Radeon graphics, but told us to stay tuned.
So apparently there is an indication that better hardware is coming, but discrete GPUs are not certain.
Now I have been wondering for a while what exactly a Chromebook should represent, given that the original idea seems to be a long way off with models that have a premium sticker and price tag on it, but if you are going to put discreet GPUs in it, it seems to me to be the normal step buy a laptop rather small.
You can immediately put Steam on it (or install Linux with Steam).
I also think it is a strange step next to Stages, the idea was correct that you didn’t need any hardware? And now they are going to let people run Steam on that ‘thinclient’.
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