Samsung showed off the next generation of Chromebooks during CES in Vegas, with heavy design changes and moving from Atom to Celeron.
Chromebooks will get a complete redesign when their second breed is launched. I’ll let you all take a look at the new design and tell me if you liked the old or the new one more.
The new style gives them a ultrabook like look. I liked the design, but I kind of miss that Black Keypad… what about you?
Chromebooks new Design 2012
Chromebooks new Design 2012
Chromebooks new Design 2012
Chromebooks new Design 2012
After the design, the major change is the processor. New Chromebooks will use Celeron processors instead of Intel Atom processors. There are no major changes on specs other than this. The internal memory will remain 16GB.
Will There Be a Change In Price?
Samsung or Google never told us how many Chromebooks they sold, that makes most of us assume that the numbers were not so great. One main reason everyone pointed out was the price. Everyone expected Chromebooks to be more competitively priced.
Will Sammy and Google consider this  when launching the new Chromebook? Will there be a better pricing, good enough to attract more customers?
via Engadget
Will the Chromebox carry similar Celeron CPU or maybe something better, say Core i3 ?
Do you have any info on this matter?
I prefer black, but I like the design.
Awesome design ! They should make it with more memory to make it easier and faster to surf the web!
Will there be hardware support for some of the trickier bits of WebGL? Many of the new wave of Chrome Experiments don’t work on my Samsung, which surprised me. Also, how much different are Atom and Celeron? I don’t know much about hardware.
I like the new design to. But indeed, it is to expensive I think. I know ultrabooks are much more, but if I have to choose between the two, I would rather choose the ultrabook because it has much more power and possibilites. They are fast to.
I love my chromebook, but would much rather have a 2012 version. I think that mine gets a bit bogged down and slow due to the processor. Too bad for me.
I love the new design. This is why I didn’t get an early Chromebook because these look better
The new design is great.
But I think the prize should be between 100 and 200 $, all about is too expensiv…
And they should choose an AMD CPU, because they’re cheaper
Why I won’t be buying a Chromebook (at least right now).
1. Lack of decent apps. Nothing comes close to Adobe CS5.5. Google Docs isn’t ready to dethrone Microsoft Office. The best computer on the planet is useless if you don’t have decent applications for it.
2. Weak CPU – the Celeron is a step in the right direction, but it doesn’t go far enough. I want at least an i3. An i5 or i7 would be better.
3. Not enough RAM. Memory is cheap. There is no excuse to skimp here.
4. Not enough storage. Sure, you don’t need much if you’re online, but I intend to use it OFFLINE more than ONLINE. This needs to be addressed.
5. Nearly everything should work OFFLINE. 3G/4G is too expensive for regular use and WiFi isn’t everywhere yet.
Google, if you’re reading this, I really want to see a combination Chromebook and Android tablet. Something like the Asus Transformer with a Chrome browser. It would be the best of both worlds. Give me one with a 12″ screen, 2GB RAM, a Tegra 3, 4G LTE and at least 32GB storage and I’ll gladly pay $500 for one. The two OS’s need to meld as one. Only then do you have any chance of winning.
I agree certainly with 2 and 3. For me, the main problem is that I expected my Chromebook to be fast and reliable, and it just isn’t. Quick start-up is all well and good, but I only do that once a day. I’d rather web pages were a bit more responsive.
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