The first netbook from Acer Chrome OS?
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Although sales of its first Android netbook, the Acer Aspire One D250, have not proved up to the expectations, the Taiwanese company announces its intention to launch a new netbook comes with Chrome OS operating system since the second half of 2010.
The goal chased by Acer, currently the third highest world ranking of manufacturers of laptops, is to be the first company to make available a new netbook on the market of the future operating system supplied by Google. According to industrial sources, the project would study past six months, even before the official launch of Chrome OS by the company in Mountain View.
Google, for its part, had suggested that many manufacturers had expressed interest in its OS. The number one worldwide in online search, in fact, made the name Asus, HP, Lenovo and Toshiba.
These preliminary statements have not caught the public, as Chrome OS (from his first steps) has always attracted interest. It is not certain however that the available dates become all concrete. Many companies, in fact, considering possible trade impact of the software before actually installing it on their computers.
In this respect, in fact, Acer’s experience could prove decisive, although some companies (like Dell) have begun to show interest in an indirect way.
The manufacturer offers to owners of Texas netbook Inspiron Mini 10v, downloading and installing an image of functional beta version of Chrome OS. This could be a way to get some statistics and user feedback about the OSI first, perhaps, to get serious.
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