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HTC Considering Google’s Chrome OS

Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer HTC is allegedly considering introducing their own products with Chrome OS Google’s cloud operating system. HTC reportedly wants to combine the advantages of Chrome and Android to create new “Internet-enabled devices,”. These devices would exist somewhere between tablets and netbooks.

Perhaps HTC…

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…

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…

Xi3 announces ChromiumPC – mini PC with Chromium OS

It looks like we’re going to see a whole bunch of Chromium OS mini PCs / desktops well before Google’s first official ChromeTop (built by Samsung), is out. The other day we noticed the Nvidia Tegra 2 powered Trim Slice now supporting the open source…

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…

Chome OS notebooks launching in Q2, touchscreen support spotted

Earlier this month, Google’s VP of product management Sundary Pichai tweeted that Chrome OS devices from partners would be out mid-year. That’s been confirmed once again by Pocket-lint who’ve been told by Google to expect devices out in Q2 in the UK and several other…

1.2GHz Tegra 2 3D Chipsets Side Leak Indicates Spring Release

Once the Tegra 2 devices start to trickle in you have to ask your self so what’s next? When we heard JenHsun speak at the Nvidia GPU conference we heard that Tegra 3 was on its way, but it seems that he left out a…

iPad Shown Off With Chromium OS (Update: Video)

Update: Hexxeh now has a video of this Chromium OS build on his iPad. He calls it the ChromePad, heh. There’s not much going on apart from a few things being clicked. Source: Hexxeh Blog.
Hexxeh, who has been releasing unofficial builds of Chromium OS…

Free Linux Operating Systems For Netbooks/Tablets/Nettops

Netbooks are cheap and portable so they are mostly used as a second computer for mobility. Most of them come with Windows 7 Starter Edition so if you want more functions from you netbook which are not included in your Windows Starter Edition you can…

Google Chrome OS UI for Tablets

Match Made in Heaven? Find out Exactly How Compatible Your Netbook is with Chrome

“Warning: This page is for developers who both know how to build Chromium OS and aren’t afraid to take a screwdriver to their computer.”
Even if that’s not you The Chromium developer forum, will still let you know which netbooks are Chromium compatible. There are…