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Samsung to sell Chrome OS based Netbooks

by Dinu

Samsung working on a  Chrome-based netbook into its line-up later this year that will have built-in 3G Wi Fi capability and 12-hour battery life. This news came out along with Acer’s announcement that they are planning to produce 1 million Chrome OS based netbooks this year.

More Specs of the Netbook

10.1-inch LED display screen

2GB of memory

64GB of hard drive

and there is some  speculating that it could run the new Qualcomm 1.5MhZ Snapdragon processor. So, competition is being tightened among Netbook manufactures to be the first to launch Chrome OS based netbook, and with good price and specs.

Let’s wait for the best deal !!

Source: .channelnews.com.au

Acer is planning to sell 1 Million Google Chrome OS Netbooks This Year

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uncategorized Acer is planning to sell 1 Million Google Chrome OS Netbooks This Year

Google Chrome Os is expected to arrive this year, and Acer has already announced that they are going to ship 1 million Google Chrome Os powered netbooks this year.

This is an awesome news for customers who are planning to buy Google Chrome OS based netbooks, because Acer’s netbook prices are already attractive, and with Google’s free operating system, and high number of production, the prices will become much more competitive.

Jim Wong, Acer’s President for IT products, told Bloomberg, “For Chrome, we’re aggressively pursuing to become one of the first so there’s a change to the Microsoft-Intel environment.”

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source: kokeytechnology.com

Chrome OS netbook is multi touch – Specs Leaked !

Rumors :  Google Chrome OS will be a multi touch device ! and .. Nvidia Tegra platform with an ARM CPU. 10.1″ multi-touch screen that supports HD, a 64GB SSD, 2GB of RAM, Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth, webcam, pre-installed with a suite of Google Apps. Other Details : Will be sold from google website, directly. Will [...]

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You can try Chrome OS, if you have Dell Mini

Dell has customized Chrome OS source which was released last week,  and made available for download on their website. The Mini 10v is one of Dell’s netbooks and is very close to the type of hardware that Google wants to use when Chrome OS is released to consumers. Reviews say that apart from some Wifi [...]

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NVIDIA – Google Partnership for Chrome OS netbooks

An NVIDIA executive on Thursday confirmed the company is working with Google to introduce a netbook containing Chrome OS and NVIDIA’s Tegra mobile device platform. ( NVIDIA Tegra is a system-on-a-chip with an ARM processor developed by NVIDIA for mobile devices such as smartphones, PDAs and MIDs. )

This news confirms two things, firstly, Google is doing some serious homework for Chrome OS, and devices that will run Chrome OS. Secondly, Google is confident that the high level of sales in the Netbooks market is going to continue for a long time. We can expect some more announcements like this in the future, from different hardware companies, that’s what I am guessing from this.

Is this something to be excited about it ? Not really, but as Chrome admirers, we can definitely be happy with these new developments. Why I am not excited is because of what I learned from the market’s response to Android. I was expecting some really good android devices from many handset makers, but it turns out that HTC is the only company doing serious work on Android, and Motorolla just entered the Android OS arena. Well, to be honest, I expected something bigger, and faster.

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Leaked Photos of Google Chrome OS Netbook or Tablet Computer ?

We do not know how far this is true, news is spreading about the leaked images from Google’s Chrome OS, that’s being developed. Here is some info. AUTHOR AGREED THAT THEY WERE FAKE PICTURES The OS installation was performed on a Acer Extensa 4620Z laptop to show it can install quickly on laptops from late [...]

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