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$199 Freescale Tablet Design Runs Chromium OS

Posted by Soulskill on from the proof-of-concept dept.

Charbax writes "This is an extensive video interview with Freescale's manager of software development about their integration of the Chromium OS onto their ARM Cortex A8 i.MX51-based $199 Tablet reference design. It seems to run smoothly and fast with multiple tabs. There's no touch screen support yet, so input is done through a USB keyboard and mouse for now, but the WiFi drivers are fine. Freescale is also demonstrating Android and Ubuntu versions. Those have a 3G SIM card reader built-in, an HDMI output and 720p video playback. The question is: will they be able to support Chrome browsing at full speed on the most JavaScript- and Flash-intensive websites and support a large amount of opened tabs?" The demonstration of the Chromium tablet begins at about 11:20 into the video. The Android and Ubuntu versions are displayed earlier.

2 of 93 comments (clear)

  1. Re:That's missing the point by vcompiler · · Score: 0, Troll

    Choose any Linux distro that can run Chrome Browser would be a better solution than choose Chrome OS.

  2. Re:Content is the problem. by vcompiler · · Score: 0, Troll

    Chrome OS is pointless, even when I haven't seen it is in a finished state because it is for sure Chrome OS is a subset of a typical Linux distro. Any Linux distro with careful customization and running a browser (if you insist Chrome is fastest, you could even run Chrome Browser) is better than Chrome OS.