Acer will launch a line of Chrome OS netbooks in a few weeks at a computer show in Taiwan, Venturebeat is reporting. Acer previously confirmed that they were developing Chrome OS netbooks at the end of 2009.
While many would love to hear news of a Chrome OS multi-touch tablet, it seems as if the first hands on implementations will be in these netbooks.
This is interesting timing for both Acer and Google. For Acer, the netbooks come soon after a report that the iPad is already impacting netbook sales. On Google’s side, this news comes a week before their i/o event in San Francisco, so there is at least a possibility that the search giant will unveil Chrome OS next week, perhaps even on an Acer machine.
Who else wants to buy one?
If the price is right, if the price is right…
It’s not as much exciting as tablet with Chrome OS but… if it will be available in Poland and in good price I’m willing to buy one.
It should be at least 100-150 $ cheaper than netbooks with similar specs, while there’s no Windows, but we all good know how it works…
kind of doubt they’ll much (if at all) cheaper – Google has said they want better specs on netbooks running Chrome OS, so might actually be more expensive. Will be interesting to see, however, how netbook with Linux with the same hardware is priced.
As for now most netbooks with linux cost almost the same, or even the same that versions with windows. It’s probably caused by agreements between microsoft and companies making netbooks.
But also few days ago I heard that Google wants netbooks with Chrome OS to cost somewhere between $300 to $450.
I believe that that price range for sure – my guess is they’ll start at $399
For me $399 is also highly probable as a base price. But I’m worried that the price in Europe and especially in Poland will start in about $500 (after conversion of course). That’s very annoying…
(btw we pushed the number of replies to the limit so I had to reply to my own comment) ;)
I have Acer Windows laptop can it be converted to chrome OS ??
If it has SSD drive yes, if not also yes but it will not be so fast. ;)
Officialy Chrome OS doesn’t support normal drives, but thanks god it’s open source and some people already made a build for any PC. Check it here: http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/
But remember that it isn’t official and final build.