Comments on: Rumor: Lenovo, Acer to launch NVIDIA Tegra devices running Google Chrome OS

By: dellobserver

dellobserver — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:21:19 +0000

Wondering if that's true? Then again, the ODM's in Taiwan are known for being leaky sieves of information

By: dellobserver

dellobserver — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:21:19 +0000

Wondering if that's true? Then again, the ODM's in Taiwan are known for being leaky sieves of information

By: DougC3

DougC3 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:30:47 +0000

Here's to the Shanzhai! I hope they will hurry up and open up some pipelines to the US.

By: SongJiang

SongJiang — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:41:24 +0000

Zobeid Zuma Sir. Unfortunately I think your cynicism is well founded. I look at it like this......

Asus actually got to the point where they launched a Snapdragon-based smartbook at a Qualcomm press conference during Computex 2009. All fanfare and confetti. Except, the very next day, it had suddenly been pulled, shelved and forgotten like it had never happened. Widely reported? No. Like a fart in spacesuit, the story reached very few noses.

The sheer power of Intel and Microsoft is such that it's unlikely that anyone with access to a solid distribution and sales channel will ever be allowed to offer consumers something that directly challenges the current duopoly. Companies like Mobinnova simply serve to stave off anti-trust suits.

Still. One can always hope. And if you ask me the Shanzhai are our best hope in the long term. Kinda like Jedi Knights against an evil empire........

By: Alexandre Linhares

Alexandre Linhares — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:09:16 +0000

Tegra & ChromeOS seem like a killer combination. I have two things concerning ChromeOS: i) we desperately need more google usernames, and ii) Google has to come up with a media player–perhaps a port of VLC. But the problem is that VLC and other projects do not support tegra's advanced capabilities.

We should be reaching extremely low pricepoints, like $99, for these netbooks, in something like 18-24 months.

By: Zobeid Zuma

Zobeid Zuma — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:55:33 +0000

I can see where this could make sense as part of a larger plan. . .

1. Slap together a crude Tegra-based machine with an incomplete and bug-riddled OS and push it out the door with little support or promotion.

2. Sell very few units.

3. Cancel the product while announcing loudly that "consumers have rejected ARM-based computers and the Chrome OS".

4. Get sweetheart deals from Microsoft and Intel.

Oops. . . Is my cynicism showing?

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Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:23:38 +0000

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