Report: Acer Launching Chrome OS Netbook
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Acer is reportedly planning to launch a Chrome OS netbook in the second half of next year.
Digitimes today cites industry sources who say Acer has been planning since the summer a netbook running Google's Chrome OS and plans to launch the mini notebook in the second half of 2010.
The report is one of the first to surface about a vendor's plans to produce a netbook running solely on Chrome OS. Digitimes goes on to say that Acer chairman JT Wang also expressed his confidence that the company will be the first vendor to launch Chrome-based netbook in the market during a recent interview with Digitimes.
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Have you even read what Chrome OS is? I don't want to get into a debate about whether or not the completley internet focused OS is a good path, but even Google will admit that Chrome OS is not meant to compete with Microsoft Windows. This OS is geared towards a niche market which wouldn't threaten Windows at all.
Have you even read what Chrome OS is? I don't want to get into a debate about whether or not the completley internet focused OS is a good path, but even Google will admit that Chrome OS is not meant to compete with Microsoft Windows. This OS is geared towards a niche market which wouldn't threaten Windows at all.
Make a proper OS!
We don't want this bu****it network based OS!
we want a proper one!
Woosh.
Low overhead OS, on a low power CPU, at a very low price (i.e. free).
Netbooks and Chrome are a match made in heaven.
If the only purpose of the netbook is to surf on the move, then you might as well buy a decent smart phone, as they are even smaller. I think netbooks are meant to be the in between of the smart phone and a regular laptop, if they are not providing any more functionality than a smart phone, then what's the point? This is why I feel like netbooks long term success is futile, smartphones are getting exceedingly more powerful and powerful laptops are getting exceedingly more cheap and energy efficient.
I've never seen a phone that could provide the same internet experience as a web browser on a full-blown OS could (Except phones that put XP on them of course). Smartphones are limited to relatively simple websites. I'm using WM6 and Opera is the best I could get. It doesn't even completely support facebook's home page, forget Flash-based websites and games. It's also proxy-based. Moreover as far as I know, Adobe just said that it won't support Flash on the iPhone.
Therefore, until we have a decent browser on smartphones, I believe there is still a lot of room for netbooks. There're tons of advantages of netbooks over smartphones.
So if you are content with viewing static HTML pages on a 3" screen then by all means get a Smartphone.