{"id":605209,"date":"2009-11-13T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=79684"},"modified":"2009-11-13T13:00:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T18:00:25","slug":"will-we-see-chrome-devices-this-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/605209","title":{"rendered":"Will We See Chrome Devices This Holiday Season?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"chrome_os2\"Google continues to pursue its ambitious Chrome agenda, confirming it will release a beta version of the Chrome browser for Mac in the next few weeks<\/a> and reportedly preparing to make the OS available via download within days<\/a>. The question for on-the-go tech geeks, though, is what kind of devices\u00a0 we’ll see for the downloadable OS, and when.<\/p>\n

Google has said it’s working on Chrome OS with a host of hardware vendors including Acer, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Toshiba. And as James noted several weeks ago<\/a> (GigaOM Pro, subscription req.), the platform\u00a0 is being developed specifically for the netbook segment, leveraging a bare-bones interface optimized for performance — not frills. Google said earlier this year<\/a> that netbooks running the OS wouldn’t be available until the second half of 2010, but that it would open source the code for download by the end of 2009.<\/p>\n

Despite all the hype surrounding Chrome — and the heavy-hitters teaming with Google on the project — the OS is likely to make a quiet debut and be targeted at a small number of devices. But Acer and Lenovo are rumored to be preparing to launch Chrome OS devices, Nvidia is working on Chrome OS Tegra devices<\/a>, and as TechCrunch suggested<\/a>, Eee PC netbooks could be endorsed by Google as Chrome-ready. If the Chrome OS’ debut comes off without a hitch, there’s a chance we could even see some hardware support for it in time for the holidays.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/div>

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Google continues to pursue its ambitious Chrome agenda, confirming it will release a beta version of the Chrome browser for Mac in the next few weeks and reportedly preparing to make the OS available via download within days. The question for on-the-go tech geeks, though, is what kind of devices\u00a0 we’ll see for the downloadable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xrr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}