While it probably won't compare to the best gaming laptops on the market, it may end up being a more viable Steam gaming machine than your average MacBook, given that many of the Steam games which now run (sort of) on Chrome OS don't run natively on Steam for Mac. I'll also be trying out a selection of other games in the days ahead with an eye toward seeing how well this Chromebook performs as a gaming machine. I've already downloaded Disco Elysium and played a bit of it, and I can say it runs pretty well once you get past the long initialization process. As I write this I'm downloading a few of the 48 games which Google suggests (based on internal testing) are best supported right now, including Hades and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition.

I spent some time yesterday (March 24) installing the Steam alpha on one of the supported Chromebooks, an Acer Chromebook 515 with a Core i5 CPU and 8GB of RAM. While the list of supported Chromebooks is still quite small - we include it below - we expect it to grow over time as Steam for Chrome OS inches closer to full release. However, now that Steam is coming to Chrome OS you'll be able to at least play some games on your Chromebook the next time you're stuck somewhere without Wi-Fi.

Steam has finally arrived on Chromebooks (Image credit: Future)

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