Here’s a nice, juicy rumor to start the day off on the right (or wrong) foot. After those recent supposed screenshots of Google’s upcoming Chrome OS, Taiwan’s Shanzai.com is now reporting the following:
“According to our reliable sources on the Mainland, both Lenovo and Acer are planing to launch Tegra-based devices running Google’s Chrome OS, and the word on the streets is that it could even happen sometime later this month.”
If true, that would be pretty wild. It’d also serve to steal a bit of thunder from a certain company based in Cupertino, California that’ll be announcing new products on September 9th. I’ve no doubt that Tegra+Chrome OS smartbooks (or MIDs or netbooks or whatever) will eventually make it to market, but to see one or more of them this month would be a bit surprising considering we’ve been hearing mid-2010 for just about everything else.
As always, take this news with a grain of salt until it can be officially substantiated.
Exclusive: Lenovo and Acer to launch Tegra devices with Google’s Chrome OS [Shanzai]
i.e. The announcement might be this month, but the devices themselves won’t appear until at least February next year. Getting very, very tired of all this pre-pre-pre-pre-publicity business – mainly because I’ve been waiting for an Ion-based notebook since June.
That would be really cool…if true!
I’m in the market for a smartbook-like device. It would be nice, to be able to buy one of the first ones running the Chrome OS.
Ubuntu also runs on Arm so, presumably, I would also be able to install that, if I ever wanted/needed a desktop OS on it.
Any time I read the phrase ‘word on the street’, I hear it in my head as spoken by Huggy Bear from Starsky & Hutch.
Hey Doug. I understand your skepticism on this one, but it’s not that I think these devices are still in development or not quite ready; think back to Computex, and recall how Asus pulled a Snapdragon smartbook product just a day after announcing it at a Qualcomm press conference! Unbelievable stuff that went quietly under the radar.
Agreed, it’s a big ask for Lenovo and Acer to defy Intel by launching, or even announcing the possibility of an ARM + Chrome OS product. And then there’s MSoft. I will keep my fingers crossed however.
In the long term I’m hoping that at least the Shanzhai manufacturers will have bigger balls than the ‘yes men’ of Taiwan, and that eventually we’ll have the option of an inexpensive, non-x86, non-windows netbook/smartbook device that really works.
I think they just misinterpreted an announcement that nvidia made saying that tegra devices can run Android, a “Google OS”, not THE “Google Chrome OS” the announcement can be found at http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1234769972591.html