Two models of notebook computer "Chromebook" adopted by Google's "Chrome OS" are released soon

In July 2009, Google announced the open source new OS "Chrome OSWe announced that we are planning to release ', in November the same yearThe details were revealed, But after about a year and a half from there, finally a laptop computer "Chromebook"It was officially announced that it will be released for the general public.

It realizes the merit of being able to maintain the latest version all the time by 8 seconds startup, high security, automatic update, and 2 models are line up.

Details are as below.
Official Google Blog: A new kind of computer: Chromebook

According to Google's official blog, "Chromebook" which adopted the company's "Chrome OS" was announced on June 15 in "United States, Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Italy and Spain"Amazon"and"Best Buy"It will be on sale in other countries, so it will start selling within the next few months.

There are two models of Samsung and Acer lineups that can access applications, games, photos, music, movies and documents via the web, as well as building multi-layered security, so anti-virus software etc. Is unnecessary. Not only for sale but also for lease for business for 28 dollars a month (about 2270 yen) and educational institution for 20 dollars a month (about 1620 yen).

Samsung Chromebook "Series 5"


It looks like the normal laptop is not much different.


1280 × 800 12.1 inch display and 1 million pixel WEB camera, 1.66 GHz dual core Atom N570 processor, 2 GB memory, 16 GB SSD, wireless LAN compliant with IEEE 802.11 b / g / n, leader for SDXC card, VGA Output is installed.


It has two USB 2.0 ports.


It is equipped with a battery that can be driven for 8.5 hours, and its weight is 1.48 kg.


Acer Chromebook


It has two USB 2.0 ports on the side, an HDMI port, a multi card reader and so on.



It has 1366 × 768 11.6 inch display and 1.3 megapixel WEB camera, 1.66 GHz dual core Atom N570 processor, 2 GB memory, 16 GB SSD, IEEE 802.11 b / g / n compatible wireless LAN and so on.


It is equipped with a battery that can be driven for 6 hours, and its weight is 1.34 kg.


Since Chromebook runs all applications on the browser "Google Chrome", the only applications that can be used are the WEB applications that run on the browser, and users can download programs to a personal computer like a conventional PC OS We do not need to install, manage and update, but also supports HTML5 promoted by Google etc ..

The details of the Chromebook are also introduced on the following links.

Chromebook


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