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The Fast Pass system lets you skip ads and the queue, plus get upgraded graphics at the Premium tier, but only for 10 hours a month.
Image: Matt Smith/Foundry
Despite the best attempts from both Google and Valve, Chromebooks aren’t exactly known for their gaming prowess. But being so browser-focused, there’s no reason you can’t use them for game streaming on services like Nvidia’s GeForce Now. And now you have an extra reason to check it out: New Chromebook buyers can play without the enshittification. I mean, without advertising.
The latest Chromebook perk is exclusive access to GeForce Now “Fast Pass,” an upgraded experience coming from a Google and Nvidia partnership. If you buy a new Chromebook from November 20, you’ll get ad-free access to GeForce Now for a year, as well as access to the Performance tier (enhanced 1440p graphics, 6-hour sessions instead of 1-hour, ultrawide monitor support, and some other perks). That’s a $10-a-month upgrade — not bad. You also get access to a priority queue, skipping a potentially long wait for the streaming servers during heavy gaming times like evenings and weekends.
It’s not quite as rosy as the promotional text might indicate. The Fast Pass does limit your upgraded access to just 10 hours of gaming a month…and I know I could blow through that in a week without noticing. You can roll over five hours of unused play into the next month.
Once you buy a new Chromebook, you can see what promotional goodies you qualify for on this page. At the time of writing there’s a lot of stuff, including three months of YouTube Premium, 100GB of Google cloud storage for a year, six months of Adobe Express, and three or twelve months of Google AI Pro (depending on whether you buy a standard Chromebook or a Chromebook Plus).
Author: Michael Crider, Staff Writer, PCWorld
Michael is a 10-year veteran of technology journalism, covering everything from Apple to ZTE. On PCWorld he's the resident keyboard nut, always using a new one for a review and building a new mechanical board or expanding his desktop "battlestation" in his off hours. Michael's previous bylines include Android Police, Digital Trends, Wired, Lifehacker, and How-To Geek, and he's covered events like CES and Mobile World Congress live. Michael lives in Pennsylvania where he's always looking forward to his next kayaking trip.
Recent stories by Michael Crider:
Image: Matt Smith/Foundry
Despite the best attempts from both Google and Valve, Chromebooks aren’t exactly known for their gaming prowess. But being so browser-focused, there’s no reason you can’t use them for game streaming on services like Nvidia’s GeForce Now. And now you have an extra reason to check it out: New Chromebook buyers can play without the enshittification. I mean, without advertising.
The latest Chromebook perk is exclusive access to GeForce Now “Fast Pass,” an upgraded experience coming from a Google and Nvidia partnership. If you buy a new Chromebook from November 20, you’ll get ad-free access to GeForce Now for a year, as well as access to the Performance tier (enhanced 1440p graphics, 6-hour sessions instead of 1-hour, ultrawide monitor support, and some other perks). That’s a $10-a-month upgrade — not bad. You also get access to a priority queue, skipping a potentially long wait for the streaming servers during heavy gaming times like evenings and weekends.
It’s not quite as rosy as the promotional text might indicate. The Fast Pass does limit your upgraded access to just 10 hours of gaming a month…and I know I could blow through that in a week without noticing. You can roll over five hours of unused play into the next month.
Once you buy a new Chromebook, you can see what promotional goodies you qualify for on this page. At the time of writing there’s a lot of stuff, including three months of YouTube Premium, 100GB of Google cloud storage for a year, six months of Adobe Express, and three or twelve months of Google AI Pro (depending on whether you buy a standard Chromebook or a Chromebook Plus).
Author: Michael Crider, Staff Writer, PCWorld
Michael is a 10-year veteran of technology journalism, covering everything from Apple to ZTE. On PCWorld he's the resident keyboard nut, always using a new one for a review and building a new mechanical board or expanding his desktop "battlestation" in his off hours. Michael's previous bylines include Android Police, Digital Trends, Wired, Lifehacker, and How-To Geek, and he's covered events like CES and Mobile World Congress live. Michael lives in Pennsylvania where he's always looking forward to his next kayaking trip.
Recent stories by Michael Crider:
