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Google Branded Chrome Netbook Specs Leaked

WhichChrome Editor — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:00:09 +0000

So it looks like as well as Google being very specific about the specs for what hardware will be needed to support the Chrome OS they are also “in bed” with a hardware manufacturers putting together their own google branded Chrome OS powered netbook.

The specs initially leaked over at IB Times seem to say that the machine will be fairly beefy. The rumours point to a 10.1 inch TFT multi touch display (HD ready of course) with an NVIDIA Tegra chipset all powered by an ARM CPU. In terms of connectivity the rumours point to the usual suspects of WiFI, Bluetooth, wired ethernet and 3G. There are also USB slots, a standard 3.5mm headphone sokcet and multi form memory card reader…. oh and a built in webcam. There’ll be 2GB of RAM available and a 64GB SSD storage. We’re not quite sure if this SSD figure is right due to Google mentioning that the OS is mainly to be used with most data being stored in the cloud but perhaps they’ve made advances in this area thanks to HTML 5 offline storage capabilities.

The release time for this is still Q4 2010.

All this is planned to come at a sub $300 cost to the end user and may even come cheaper if bought with a mobile contract in the same way that mobile handsets are subsidised today.

Chrome OS to launch within a week?

WhichChrome Editor — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:42:26 +0000

Well that’s what TechCrunch are saying in a post that went up this morning. They say that information from a reliable source says that Google’s Chrome OS “will become available to download within a week”.

This is indeed exciting news and as we have previously mentioned we expected to see a developer version late this year… but is this really going to be it? If so then we can only assume that hardware support may be a little thin on the ground to begin with but regardless I’m looking forward to trying this out on my Eee 901.

So you want Chrome now?

WhichChrome Editor — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:59:42 +0000

Well you can’t quite have it… but what you can get is a copy of is what seems to be the Chrome Browser for Chrome OS.

Thanks to a TechCrunch reader who read their post on the 12th October about the appearance of a chromium-rel–linux-chromeos folder on the Chrome snapshot site and then proceeded to download it and host it you can now get a copy too.

Of course if you’re just curious as to the current state of play then check out his blog.