Google netbooks set to hit market. Manufacturers are lining up to create netbooks running Google’s operating systems, but the market is split as to which to support: Chrome or Android.
…Google’s popular portable operating systems are set to make the leap into larger devices this year - although manufacturers are still torn as to whether Chrome or Android is the way to go.Sitting on the Chrome OS side of the fence is Samsung, which according to Australian site Channel News has recently confirmed a netbook running Google’s browser-based cloud operating system.
With a 10.1 inch LED-backlit display and around 12 hours of battery life, the N210-styled netbook, which is as yet unnamed by the company, will have a surprisingly impressive 2GB of RAM and at least 64GB of on-board storage - a huge amount of horsepower for a lightweight operating system designed to store all of its documents on Google’s cloud servers.
So far the processor built in to the system isn’t known, but it’s thought that Samsung might be going down the ARM route to get the impressive 12 hour battery life - with rumours circulating it could even be Qualcomm’s latest 1.5GHz Snapdragon chip under the hood. Sadly, we’ll have to…
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