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Google Reveals Chrome Hardware Partners

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-they-can dept.

nk497 writes "Google has announced the hardware partners for the Chrome OS — so we can expect to see netbooks running the operating system next year from the likes of Asus, Acer, and HP, as well as Toshiba. Dell didn't seem to make the list, at least yet. Google also said it had teamed up with Adobe, which could mean Google is looking to include the Acrobat.com web-based software suite in some way."

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  1. I would absolutely love this by cerberusss · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just today, I gave a presentation created with Google Docs. WIth the right background and font colors, it was virtually indistinguisable from our usual company its PowerPoint template. Combining all the Google stuff together and you have a situation where you hardly need local storage. So, I'd give the Chrome OS a hearty welcome, even though it might offer too much limitations for others. I've given up my office suite, my IMAP and SMTP server and my webmail. For me personally, it's perfectly usable in business.

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    1. Re:I would absolutely love this by cerberusss · · Score: 3, Informative

      My presentations are usually outside my office. Relying on a working internet connection for them sounds like a a major PITA to me, considering how much effort is usually involved for accessing a corporate LAN.

      Giving presentations off-site/off-line not the purpose of Google Docs. It's meant for sharing, collaborating and what have you. To do a presentation somewhere, just export to PDF and run it full-screen in any PDF viewer, on any OS.

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  2. Dell's netbooks by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dell's netbooks are overpriced anyway. Seriously, I went shopping for one recently and their netbooks seemed crazy expensive compared to asus, acer, et. al.

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    1. Re:Dell's netbooks by xtracto · · Score: 2, Informative

      Dell's netbooks are overpriced anyway. Seriously, I went shopping for one recently and their netbooks seemed crazy expensive compared to asus, acer, et. al.

      I do not know about Dell, but Acer machines have the fame of being completely craptastic. I stopped using/trusting Acer computer after having to provide service to 486Dx which had very crappy cases that seemed more like bad quality lego's. Or the other "stylish" black computers which were a completely piece of shit. I think Acer lack of quality may be only surpassed by that of Sony (which, may not be as bad due to quality but more because of the use of al lthose close formats)

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    2. Re:Dell's netbooks by DuckDodgers · · Score: 4, Informative

      Most of the laptops people buy come from Compal (Dell, Toshiba, HP) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compal_Electronics and Quanta (Acer, Apple, Compaq, Dell again, Toshiba again, HP again, Lenovo, Sony) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanta_Computers.

      So don't get too caught up in which manufacturer is better. Pay attention to value for dollar and service (ha!), the hardware is shared.

  3. Re:No Intel or AMD ? by wjousts · · Score: 5, Informative

    These are partners that make computers sold to consumers. Intel and AMD make CPUs that go into those computers and (AFAIK) don't make computers themselves, which is why they are not on this list. Also, they have already announced that they will support both x86 and ARM processors.

  4. Re:No Intel or AMD ? by Zerth · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes

  5. Acrobat, huh by MadFarmAnimalz · · Score: 4, Informative
    Google also said it had teamed up with Adobe, which could mean Google is looking to include the Acrobat.com web-based software suite in some way.

    Umm, no. Flash.

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  6. Chrome OS screenshots leakskskskssss by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/07/09/possible-chrome-os-shots-leak-out

  7. Re:Noooo by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 2, Informative

    dammit i was supposed to edit that to say adobe flash

    learn to type noob

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  8. Did anyone actually RTFA? by sjvn · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is _no_ news here about who the partners will be. It's just a day-late write-up of the original Google Chrome announcement. This should never have been published as 'news' this late in the game much less Slashdotted.

    Steven

    1. Re:Did anyone actually RTFA? by toopok4k3 · · Score: 2, Informative

      It's here. I think this is the original news source.

  9. Re:Air by morcego · · Score: 2, Informative

    Flash 10 Alpha for Linux 64 crashes all the time.

    Oh my fucking god!!! An alpha version of a software ... and it crashes .... and has bugs ....

    What is the world coming to ?!?!?!?!

    You should be thankful that it has enough features to be usable. Alpha traditionally means that the feature set is not even complete.

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  10. Re:Air by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Nokia N800/N810 devices run full Flash 9 (not mobile or lite) on an ARM processor, so it's already possible.

  11. Re:This is not good for free software by nadaou · · Score: 4, Informative

    > Google has never been a supporter of Free Software.

    This year's Google Summer of Code is providing approx $5M in scholarships for students to work on Free Software projects. No strings attached other than an oversight framework to make sure the system is not abused.

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  12. Re:Google is not making an OS... by Reapman · · Score: 2, Informative

    Uh, Google did?

    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
    "Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. "
    " and we'll soon be working with the open source community, "

    http://chrome.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-chrome-os-faq.html
    "Later this year, the Google Chrome OS code will be open sourced. "