Acer AC700 Chromebook up on Market Shelves. Google gets another tablet to run its Chrome OS. In fact, The Acer AC700 is the second laptop designed to run Google’s Chrome OS. The slate is a little late in hitting the shelves, as it was initially scheduled for a June launch, along with the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook. The Acer Chromebook is cheaper than Samsung’s model, but features similar specs. The slate packs 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N570 dual core processor, 2GB of RAM and 16GB solid state disks just like in Samsung models. The difference is in their screen size with Acer having 11.6 inch display instead of Samsung’s 12.1 inch screen. The Acer AC700 also has a full-sized keyboard with special Chrome OS shortcuts in place of Fn keys and also has a large clickpad below the keyboard.
If you need more 3G bandwidth than that you’ll need to sign up for a Verizon contract. The Chrome OS is designed around a web browser so doesn’t take much time to boot (10 seconds tops) and almost no time at all to resume from sleep. Samsung Series 5 Chromebook Review. Google's Chrome OS came close to being labeled vaporeware after its highly publicized initial announcement, at least by some. But at Google, there was never any doubt about its future. Just as they have done with the Chrome Web browser, Google has poured tons of resources into Chrome OS. It's a radical system, no matter how you slice it. It's the world's first commercially available desktop operating system that relies almost entirely in the cloud.
This whole thing started last year with the introduction of the CR-48. Samsung beat Acer to the punch in terms of shipments; the first Series 5 machines started shipping in the U.S. in June of 2011, and that's the unit that we're reviewing here. The Series 5 Chromebook is an interesting device. Notre test du Chromebook : l'interface en images.
Surfant sur la dématérialisation, le Chromebook entend révolutionner le marché de l'informatique en proposant une offre 100% Cloud. Le concept d'héberger ses données et ses applications sur Internet est séduisant, mais beaucoup pointent du doigt les problèmes liés à l'absence de fonctions hors-ligne. Le Chromebook est-il l'ordinateur du futur ? Nous avons testé l'appareil pendant quelques jours pour essayer de répondre à cette question. Rappelons tout d'abord les intérêts du Cloud, sur lequel est entièrement basé le Chromebook. Ce dernier n'est pour ainsi dire qu'une interface vous permettant d'accéder à vos fichiers stockés en ligne. Dès lors, la puissance matérielle n'est plus un facteur déterminant, et vous pouvez accéder à vos données stockées depuis n'importe quel ordinateur, simplement en vous connectant sur votre espace de stockage (votre Cloud, donc).
Commençons par ses caractéristiques techniques : // Package et design Le design du Chromebook est plutôt original. Chromebook From Samsung Has Its Head in the Cloud. Samsung - Chromebook 12,1" - Intel atom N570 - 16 Go - RAM 2048 Mo - Google Chrome OS - Blanc: Amazon.fr: Informatique. Google Ships First Chrome OS Notebook: CR-48. It took Google right around a full year, but this week, a dream was realized. Google made some pretty big promises last year when talking about a new operating system: Chrome OS. It takes a lot of nerve to willingly tackle both Apple and Microsoft in the OS realm, but Google is definitely big enough to take a swing. After announcing that Chrome OS would at first be limited to specific notebook hardware and would rely heavily on the cloud and remote access, the company didn't say much. A year passed, and we still knew about as much on Chrome OS as we did on the first day. This week, the CR-48 was born. This is Google's first Chrome OS notebook, and it's being shipped by Google themselves.
Google is shipping these out to around 60k lucky users who signed up for a preview, so there's no clear indication of how you could get one otherwise. Also, Google is shipping each of these with 100MB of Verizon data per month, for free! Overall, the CR-48 looks like a very interesting machine. Centre d'aide Google Chrome OS.