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Chromium Nerds Leak New Samsung Chrome OS Laptop

Once upon a time, Google promised that their much-hyped Chrome OS laptops would be coming in mid-year. Alas, details of a Samsung Chromebook, codenamed Alex, have surfaced in the Chromium code group, giving us hope that they’ll soon arrive.

March 17, 2011
Computing

$US200 Android Or Chrome Netbook Sounds Good, Asus

Tablets have come along and killed the netbook, but let’s face it – the netbook market was having problems way before the iPad ever reared its 9.7-inch head. I mean, THE PRICE! You can pick up a fully fledged laptop for the price of most netbooks.

March 12, 2011
Computing

Google: No CR-48 Laptops Left, Chrome OS Devices Arriving By Mid-Year

Were you still hoping to get your hands on one of Google’s experimental Chrome OS laptops? Sad news: Google’s VP of Product Management sent out a quick tweet saying the supply of Chrome OS CR-48 laptops has run out; but the public can expect partner devices to arrive mid-year. [@sundarpichai via PC World]

March 4, 2011
Computing

Google Fixes Chrome Cr-48 Trackpad Issues With Update

Users of Google’s Cr-48 laptop (developers; competition winners… even those who bothered sitting through a conference) can now have full satisfaction with their trackpad, as the Chrome OS update 0.10.156.46 has been pushed through.

January 7, 2011
Computing

Using The Moto Atrix Notebook-Slash-Smartphone

The Atrix is a pretty great phone by itself – two 1GHz cores and 1GB of RAM makes things speedy – but it’s even more useful when you dock it into their laptop for heavy duty computering.

January 5, 2011
Computing

People Aren’t Really Buying Chrome OS Apps

After Google’s big reveal of their Chrome OS platform, it seems people aren’t so keen on paying for web apps. TechCrunch says that the most purchased paid app in the Chrome web store gets about 65 weekly purchases. Ouch.

December 22, 2010
Computing

Google’s Cr-48 Laptop Revolutionises… Safety Instructions

Google’s CR-48 Chrome notebook might, maybe, possibly, be the laptop of the future. Which is all well and good. But did you also know that some clever Google copywriter also took the opportunity to make its safety instructions hilarious?

December 14, 2010
Computing

Google Hides Puzzle In CR-48 Video, Awards Solver Laptop Prize

If you’re clued-up on maths equations, lend your eye to Google’s video down below and see what it took for chancer Sylvain to win one of the CR-48 laptops. Flunked maths? Never mind, you should watch it anyway!

December 11, 2010
Computing

Google Says They’ll Have Failed If Chrome OS And Cloud Computing Doesn’t Become The Norm

Google has a lot of faith in their Chrome OS. So much, in fact, that they won’t be satisfied with anything less than creating a paradigm shift in computer use.

Computing

All Laptops Should Be Like Google’s Stark Naked Notebook

“Is that the Google notebook? Wow, I really like it!” That’s what everybody’s who’s seen the Cr-48 Chrome prototype says. It’s not because they love the software.

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