Samsung’s new Series 5 Chromebook is one of the very first devices to market running Google’s own Chrome OS, a Linux variant cloud-based operating system that is essentially just a web browser and nothing else.  I’ve been testing and living with the Chromebook for a few days now and have already written about my thoughts [...]

Categories: Google, Google Chrome, Linux

A few days ago I took delivery of a Samsung Chromebook to test, I’ll be writing my full review of the Chromebook in a few days, but I wanted to see how easy it would be to live with the Chromebook as my main PC for a week.  You can read that first article here. To [...]

Categories: Google

Today I took delivery of a review Samsung Series 5 Chromebook, one of the first of the new breed of netbook running Google’s Chrome operating system.  I’ll write up a full review of the machine next week but it’s only fair that I try an experiment and see if I can actually live with Chrome [...]

Categories: Google

We may still be at least a year away from Windows 8′s big debut in 2012, but the OS arena is heating up like never before, and new competitors are stepping up to the plate. It’s no big secret that Google has been preparing a streamlined, Chrome-esque operating system to challenge Microsoft’s double decade monopoly. [...]

Categories: Google, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Windows

There’s been so much news in recent weeks about stuff that’s going to turn into our computing future that I’m hardly surprised most people have failed to join the dots. If you look at some of, if not all of, the major technology announcements in recent weeks we can see that there is a very [...]

Categories: Apple, Google, Microsoft

So the Chromebook has finally been announced, and first models will ship on June 15 in select countries (US and several European countries). Both Acer and Samsung have revealed some of the specs of the netbooks running Google’s Chrome OS. Both Chromebooks will be powered by a dual-core Intel Atom cpu and a 1280×800 display. [...]

Categories: ask the readers

Google’s new Chrome OS cloud-based operating system is about to make its first appearance, not on netbooks, as was first thought, but on tablet devices instead. Engadget are reportingthat smartphone maker HTC are building the device which will sport a 1280×720 multi-touch screen, 2Gb of RAM and a minimum of 32Gb hard disk storage.  It’s [...]

Categories: Google, Google Chrome, Mobile Computing

Later this year Google will release their Linux-based Chrome OS operating system.  They first announced it a year ago when XP  shipping on Netbooks was the most talked-about subject in IT circles.  Back then there was no talk of tablets beyond a few people saying how nice it would be to be able to properly [...]

Categories: Apple, Google

Now that the source code of Chrome OS is in the open the project has entered the second stage of the development phase. I suggest to visit the announcement about Chrome OS that was posted yesterday and take a look at the video posted if you have not followed the news about Google’s operating system [...]

Categories: Google, Operating Systems