First Chrome OS Notebook to Ship in Fall
First Chrome OS Notebook to Ship in Fall
Posted 06/03/2010 at 5:11am
| by Paul Lilly
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After countless leaks and a whole lot of speculation, Google's open source Chrome OS will finally make an appearance on a shipping product in the fall of 2010, said Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management at Google.
Pichai didn't say which vendor it will be, though our odds on favorite is Acer. Late last month there was speculation that Acer was planning on showing off a Chrome OS netbook at Computex, and while that hasn't yet been the case, market sources continue to peg Acer as the front runner, according to DigiTimes.
Whether or not we'll see Chrome OS on tablets remains to be seen. When asked how Google plans to position its two OSes, Pichai said that Android is aimed at handheld devices with development towards multi-funcitions, while Chrome OS is essentially for PCs, and primarily for 10-12 inch notebooks.
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sravans578
December 15, 2010 at 6:29pm
read about it here
http://computersight.com/computers/google-to-win-over-microsoft/
Keith E. Whisman
June 03, 2010 at 7:21am
The whole cloud OS thing really bugs me. Basically the OS is empty with just a set of Icons that connect you to apps on the internet. If you need to use your computer when there is no internet available your screwed. With Windows 7 or even any other Linux distro even a Mac laptop there is alot that can be done without internet access. I can open MS Office and do some MS office stuff. I can watch a movie of my choice from DVD or something that I downloaded from the internet when it was available.
Basically Chrome OS and other Cloud OS's can't survive the apocalypse. When we are forced back into a hunter gatherer life style only non cloud computers will be usable. Of course people are unwilling to think about that. Android is a great OS. Chrome I don't think so highly of it and the same goes for any OS that relies so heavily on the internet.
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