We checked out the refresh of the Samsung Chromebook at CES and we questioned the move to put in an Intel Celeron processor since we’re not keen on the battery life it typically provides. The over all Chromebook category has yet to be proven but…
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10% Off Samsung Series 5 Chromebooks
Amazon has slashed 10% off the price of all Samsung Series 5 chromebooks, as spotted by Chrome OS focused blog Chome Story. Is this sign of a permanent price drop to come, or just a temporary deal? The other place that Chromebooks sell, Best Buy,…
Chromebooks Looking to Get a Hardware Upgrade To the Core i Series
One of the complaints against the Chomebook is that its too expensive for what is essentially netbook hardware. So its great news for the smartbook form factor that Intel is rumored to be giving Google Chromebooks a 10-20% discount on Core i Series processors that…
Dual Boot Your MacBook Air with a Chromium OS
wanted to put a limited operating system on your Macbook Air? Well new you can, Chrome OS hacker Hexxeh has just released a port of Chromium OS for Apple’s version of a netbook. This isn’t the exact version of Chrome that you’ll get on Chromebooks…
Acer AC700 Chromebook delayed to mid-July
It turns out that Acer’s Chromia 700 or AC700 Chromebook that got put on hold earlier this month won’t be shipping this month at all. It’ll hit next month, mid-July according to Amazon.com. Pricing won’t change – $349.99 for the Wi-Fi model and $429.99 for…
Chrome vs JoliCloud: Two Cloudbased Operating Systems Go Head to Head
Our friend Brad over at Liliputing has put Chrome and Jolicloud head to head in the battle made for two operating systems built for the clouds. Jolicloud has been a long time favorite of Netbook News since its been pushing users towards cloud based services…
Google Chrome touch interface progressing, screenshots
Google’s already said they don’t have any foreseeable plans to release Chrome OS on non-clamshell devices like tablets but behind-the-scenes we’ve seen plenty of work being done to adopt Chrome for tablets (screen rotation) and finger touch (larger UI elements).
Today, more screenshots showing better…
Samsung Series 5 Chromebook Available For Pre-Order (Sort of)
If you’re keen to pick up a Chromebook well you’d better flip into hunting mode because the pre-order has only been up a few hours and is already sold out! But have no fear if you’re willing to do a bit of hunting there are…
Kogan launches world’s first Chromebook for $349
Australian retailer Kogan is out with the world’s first Chromebook priced at $349 (AUD) and shipping on June 7. Okay, technically not the world’s first (to go on sale) as that award goes to Gilt for offering a quick and early sale of the Samsung…
Google CR-48 Chromebooks shipping again
If you signed up for a Google Chrome OS CR-48 Chromebook and never got yours, don’t give hope yet; Google has apparently resumed shipping the device according to the sudden influx of reports over on Reddit and Twitter. This is odd since we officially got…
Trim Slice Tegra 2 desktop now supports Chromium OS
You remember the Trim Slice right? That little ARM alternative nettop, powered by Nvidia Tegra 2. Well, now they’ve gotten it running the open source version of Chrome OS, Chromium OS, although it’s still a work-in-progress, which is pretty much the same state ARM Ubuntu…
Chrome OS gets handwriting APIs.. so much for no tablets (again)
We’ve heard multiple times from Google that they have no intention of releasing Chrome OS tablets, that it’s strictly for clamshell devices with keyboards, called Chromebooks (those nettops being the expection) but behind the scenes we’re seeing continuing development of touch functionality, so tablets may…
Google Chrome OS Launches in Beta
The Chomebook was released last week by Google with hardware being provided by Samsung and Acer so far. The hardware is due to hit the streets June 15th and in preparation of the launch they have started formal beta testing for Chrome OS 12. We…
Samsung Series 5 Chromebook Preview
Google has been working on its Chromebook with the release 60,000 CR-48 in December of 2010 and released final products last week at Google I/O last week. The Chromebook hardware is lacking a hard drive which forces the user into the cloud for all of…
Turn your Dell Mini into a Chromebook with Dell’s new Chromium OS build
Back at the end of 2009, when Chrome / Chromium OS started to look a little different than the browser it spun-off from, Dell offered a downloadable build for their Dell Mini netbook lineup. Not sure how that experiment went but in any case, there…
