We’re starting to see Windows 7 tablet and notebook designs featuring Intel’s 1.5 GHz Atom Z670 Oak Trail chip, but according to DigiTimes we could start seeing Oak Trail tablets running Google Android 3.1 soon. We could also see next-generation Chromebooks later this year using Intel’s upcoming Cedar Trail platform. The Intel Atom Z670 is a low power chip with…

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  [/caption]   Update: It’s official. Starting June 15th, Google will offer Chromebook laptops and software support, as well as free hardware upgrades for $20 per month for students, and $28 per month per user for business users. Google Chrome OS is an operating system designed around a web browser and web-based applications such as Gmail, Google Docs, and you…

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Hot on the heels of a bug report which revealed details about Acer’s upcoming Chrome OS notebook, the folks at ChromeNieuws.nl have spotted a bug report with information about a new Samsung notebook designed to run Chrome OS. Here’s what it reveals: The computer appears to be called the Samsung Alex. It’s powered by a 1.5 GHz Intel Atom N550…

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Google has been working on Chrome OS since 2009, but the browser-based operating system is still in beta. Now it looks like a full release could be coming soon. Testers have started to notice that in addition to Beta and Dev channels, there’s now a new Stable channel. The company uses the same three channels for the Chrome web browser,…

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There are two schools of thought on cloud-based services. The first is that the most secure place to store your apps and data are in the cloud where you won’t lose anything if your computer crashes or gets stolen or if your house burns down, taking all of your backup hard drives with it. The second is that one of…

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Google Chrome OS is an operating system based around a web browser, designed to almost make the computer irrelevant by letting you run web apps, store your data in the cloud, and easily access your settings and information from any machine with a web browser. Jolicloud is a Linux-based operating system that works much the same way, but also lets…

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Sure, the Google Cr-48 laptop is a device for early adopters who want to test Chrome OS, not the general public. But aren’t you a little curios to know what it looks like under the hood? Apparently you’re not alone, because Engadget has published a series of photos from a user who received the laptop yesterday and then promptly proceeded…

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Google has unveiled the first notebook designed to run the Chrome OS operating system. It’s not really meant for the general public, but the new Cr-48 is a 12 inch notebook that will be available as part of a pilot program for developers and other testers. While the Cr-48 isn’t supposed to be a consumer laptop, it gives us an…

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For a company whose bread and butter is search, Google sure is working on a lot of operating systems… or two, rather. The company’s Android OS has taken the smartphone space by storm, and we’re starting to see it show up on tablet computers as well. And in the next few months Google is also expected to launch Chrome OS,…

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Google’s Chrome Operating system is due out by year’s end, and now the folks at Digitimes are reporting that the first devices running Chrome OS could ship by the end of November. The site also suggests that Google will launch a Chrome OS notebook under its own brand name. I’d take the reports with a grain of salt, since the…

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We’ve seen hackers install Google Android on the iPhone, so it it any surprise that someone decided to cram Google’s upcoming Chrome Operating System onto an iPad? That’s exactly what one hacker named Hexxeh has done. Hexxeh is probably best known as one of the first people to compile early builds of Google Chrome OS from source and make them…

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Google clearly didn’t have tablets in mind when it designed the Android operating system. Way back in 2007, tablets were generally expensive computers running Windows software which often had a full keyboard, a screen on a swivel, and active digitizer and stylus doohickeys for input. Android, on the other hand, was aimed at smartphones. Flash forward a few years and…

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