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When the first Chromebooks hit the market, they were powered by Intel Atom chips designed to keep prices relatively low, battery life relatively long, and performance relatively poor. OK, that last bit might have been the unintended consequence of going with Atom rather than a goal.

But Google recently showed that Chromebooks don’t have to be slow. The $1299 Google Chromebook Pixel has an Intel Core i5 Ivy Bridge processor and it’s speedy as all get out. And even the $249 Samsung Series 3 Chromebook with an ARM Cortex-A15 chip is pretty zippy.

But soon we may see some even faster models featuring Intel Haswell chips.

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7 replies on “Lilbits (6-26-2013): Chromebooks with Haswell chips on the way?”

  1. Chromebooks got off to a rocky start when they were first released, but Google has finally started to get the Chromebook concept message across to more and more manufacturers, retailers, analysts and users.

    But what about Chromebook users that need to access Windows applications like Microsoft office? They can try products like Ericom AccessNow, an HTML5 RDP solution that enables Chromebook users to connect to Terminal Servers and/or VDI virtual desktops, and run Windows applications or desktops in a browser tab.

    There’s nothing to install on the Chromebook, so AcccessNow is easy to deploy and manage.

    For an online, interactive demo, open your Chrome browser and visit:
    https://www.ericom.com/demo_AccessNow.asp?URL_ID=708

    Please note that I work for Ericom

  2. How popular is Chrome OS? Chromebooks seem popular but I mostly read how people just bought it to install some regular Linux distro.

    1. In total… not very much, after well over 2 years the market share is still smaller than what Windows 8 has gained after just a few months and Windows 8 has yet to gain much market share itself…

      However, on sites like Amazon Chromebooks are very popular… just not compared to the market as a whole.

      Problems are it still relies too much on the Cloud, offline functionality is still limited, and lacks high end productivity apps that would make it more useful than say existing mobile devices running Android or iOS… Many of the cloud based services are hardly exclusive for Chrome as well…

      While the pricing hasn’t been very competitive for most of the time Chromebooks have been available. The original ATOM based Chromebooks were priced higher than equivalent netbooks and only fairly recently has the price dropped to below $300 for ARM and low cost x86 based versions.

      However, Google is continuing to develop it and sales are still good enough for them to continue to try to gain more market share and it does have different strengths and weaknesses than Android to help widen the range of things Google can offer…

  3. “And even the $249 Samsung Series 3 Chromebook with an ARM Cortex-A15 chip is pretty zippy.”

    Not as zippy as the cheaper $199 Acer C7 Intel Celeron Chromebook.

  4. “When the first Chromebooks hit the market, they were powered by Intel Atom chips”

    Weren’t the first Chromebooks powered by Intel Celeron chips? Not Atoms?

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