Netbooks with Google Chrome OS expected before year-end

Posted on Sunday, July 12 2009 @ 22:06 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the first netbooks with Chrome OS may be available later this year:
HP and Acer netbooks running Google’s new Chrome OS could be available as soon as this year, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt announced at the annual Allen & Company conference. Chrome OS may give Schmidt reason to leave Apple’s board, but he declined to acknowledge Microsoft as a competitor.

Netbooks running Chrome OS, Google’s newly announced operating system, may be available later this year, according to a report from Reuters, which quoted Google chief executive Eric Schmidt at the Allen & Company media and technology conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 9.


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