Rumor: Acer Plans to Launch Chrome OS-based Netbook in Late 2010
Rumor: Acer Plans to Launch Chrome OS-based Netbook in Late 2010
Posted 12/02/2009 at 7:30am
| by Paul Lilly
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Citing un-named industry sources, news and rumor site DigiTimes reports that Acer has been working on a new netbook built around Google's upcoming Chrome OS since the middle of this year, and will launch the unit sometime in the second half of 2010.
DigiTimes also claims to have heard it straight from the horse's mouth, with Acer chairman J.T. Wang expressing confidence during an interview that his company will beat all others to the punch and bring the first Chrome-based netbook to market.
And if Wang's saying it, there's reason to believe it. Acer, after all, was the first top-tier vendor to release a Google Android-based nebook. Though demand for the model didn't meet the company's expectations, that apparently hasn't given Acer cold feet when it comes to releasing netbooks not sporting the Windows platform as the sole OS.
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nekollx
December 02, 2009 at 11:09am
I dunno seems Dell already beat them to the punch, granted it's a beta build but still....
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