Samsung Working On Chrome OS Netbook
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The head of Samsung’s IT services division, Phil Newton, has revealed that Samsung Australia is preparing to produce a Google Chrome OS-based netbook computer. Newton was light on stats, but did say that the netbook will be similar to the Samsung N210 netbook, which features a 10-inch display.
Newton was light on specifics of the new device but did reveal that, along with the 10-inch display, it’ll have 2GB of RAM, WiFi and 3G connectivity, as well as 64GB of storage. The official story out of Australia has the storage medium as a hard drive, but 64GB is a bit small, even for a netbook, and it is a perfect number for a cheap SSD. Newton or one of the blogs somewhere could of been mistaken.
Newton told the Australia website Channel News that the Chrome OS-based netbook will be very similar to Samsung’s existing netbook, the Samsung N210. Newton didn’t expand on the processor, but Channel News speculates that it’ll be a new 1.5GHz Qualcomm ARM processor.
Unless Qualcomm and Samsung have a trick up their sleeve with a new dual- or quad-core ARM processor, I don’t see why Samsung would bother with straying from the tried and true Intel Atom line of processors, which are perfect for netbooks (expect for their little problem with Hulu).
No word on when we can expect this device, or even if it’ll ship outside of Australia. Newton did hint that this would be the beginning of a line of Chrome OS-based netbook products from Samsung.
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“why Samsung would bother with straying from the tried and true Intel Atom line of processors, which are perfect for netbooks (expect for their little problem with Hulu)” Are you kidding me, I apologize if I seem rude, but you need to do more research. The new arm processors, ranging from the 1GHz SnapDragon to the Dual-Core Tigra 2, have integrated GPU’s that run circles around an atom and is cheaper to produce, sips power like a humming bird, and produces so little heat a fan/cooling system is not necessary. On top of that it has been shown that the 1GHz snapdragon can preform just as good as the 1.6 GHz atom for regular stuff and can handle a around 10 solid hours of 720p playback, my atom netbook can barely handle 360p YouTube play back. and besides Chrome OS is an optimized os further reducing initial CPU usage, windows on a netbook runs like a dog, Ubuntu’s Netbook remix runs circles around it and Chrome OS will be even faster. Also note that the “premium” Tigra 2 has integrated nVidia GPU capable of 1080p playback with ease and a Dual-Core 1 GHz CPU, compared to the atom’s single-core 1.6 GHz
Nice vapor announcement, but I just bought a Win7 Pinetrain powered ASUS and it’s working great.
Message to Google: Just Ship It !