Don’t Update Your Chromebook Yet

Google pushed out a small Chrome OS replace on the tail finish of June, and now Chromebook customers are seeing efficiency points in consequence. One of the chief points is absurdly excessive CPU utilization that may gradual your Chromebook to a crawl.

Chrome OS version 91.0.4472.147 dropped final week, bringing with it the standard cadre of bug fixes and safety updates for the bigger Chrome OS update pushed by means of in the beginning of June.

As the replace hit, customers began to file bug reports and post publicly about experiencing slowed down Chromebooks and extreme lag. In the official bug report, customers submitted screenshots of the Diagnostics app, displaying the CPU locked up at excessive utilization charges and topping out on the most price. If the working system is throttling the processor all that a lot, it makes it just about ineffective when making an attempt to navigate wherever else in Chrome OS.

But the bug doesn’t appear to have an effect on all Chromebooks. The studies come primarily from Grunt and Hatch gadgets, each inner code names used to consult with particular boards inside sure fashions of Chromebooks. This makes it simple to isolate which of the obtainable fashions is perhaps affected by the bug. AboutChromebooks has a helpful checklist of all of the potential fashions in no explicit order:

Grunt-based Chromebooks:

HP Chromebook 14

Acer Chromebook 315

HP Chromebook 11a G6 EE

Lenovo 14e Chromebook

Acer Chromebook 311

Acer Chromebook Spin 311

Lenovo 100e 2nd-gen AMD

Lenovo 300e 2nd-gen AMD

Hatch-based Chromebooks:

Acer Chromebook 712

Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5

Samsung Galaxy Chromebook and Chromebook 2

Asus Chromebook Flip C435

If you’re curious, you may verify which board your Chromebook makes use of by cross-referencing this list of devices or by typing chrome://model into your Chromebook’s handle bar. Look three traces down, subsequent to Platform. The identify of your board is on the finish.

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Not all of the gadgets listed above undergo from the difficulty that’s apparently plaguing the model 91.0.4472.147 replace. But until you can afford to spend your free time submitting bug studies, you would possibly wish to ignore the notifications to replace your software program, no less than for just a few extra days. Also avoid shutting down your Chromebook in order to not set off automated updates. If you wish to know when the coast is obvious, you may bookmark the official bug report, which is successfully a big thread on the goings-on of this explicit model.