ASUS Chromebook Flip CM5 wants to be your Google Stadia rig

ASUS has launched a new Chrome OS laptop packing up to AMD’s Ryzen 5, with the ASUS Chromebook Flip CM5 giving a big nod to cloud gaming with its color-blocked WASD keys. The new notebook has a 15.6-inch screen and – though you can of course use all the normal Google apps as with any Chromebook – ASUS is positioning it as a particularly strong Google Stadia partner.

That’s Google’s game streaming platform, and the advantage there is that it doesn’t really matter that the Chromebook Flip CM5 doesn’t have a huge (and power hungry) processor and discrete GPU. 
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