“Google at its Chrome event today unveiled Cr-48, a testbed netbook for Chrome OS. The 12-inch system is designed for early adopters willing to use Chrome OS in its beta state. It comes completely unbranded and has design touches rare on other netbooks, including an Apple-style clickable trackpad and a full keyboard that omits some traditional keys, such as Caps Lock and function keys,” Electronista reports.
“As part of the news, however, Google revealed that its plans had been set back for a commercial launch. It admitted that some features, such as Cloud Print and USB storage, were in beta or otherwise unfinished,” Electronista reports. “There was ‘some time left to go,’ it said. Acer and Samsung had committed to launching Chrome OS systems but now won’t ship them until mid-2011, or almost a year later than planned. ARM also would have to wait for future development, but the platform isn’t locked to x86.”
Electronista reports, “The goals set back competition with Apple and Microsoft. Windows had already been in the same space through netbooks, but Apple is already preempting the the ultra-lightweight, web-focused category with the iPad and more recently the 11-inch MacBook Air.”
Full article here.
Another unfinished product from Google… What else is new?
Google schmoogle.
Очередное унылое говно…
Dork Bait
Copy what others do….. And forget about strategy. That’s easier.
Copy what others do….. And forget about strategy. That’s a lot easier.
Good point Sasha.
Google is starting to become a joke. Everything they come out with is in a half-ass, beta state. We used to think that people at this company were smart, but now I’m beginning to wonder.
BFD!!!!!
don’t forget guys, they HAVE to release this stuff early, so that users can start using it (eg. the chrome web store), that will encourage devs to jump in, and later hardware partners…
Something has to kickstart the whole ball of wax
It’s a ripoff of the MacBook: drop back hinge with extra-long hinge; chiclet keyboard in a curved, recessed well; extra-large buttonless trackpad; thumbscoop; and black paint job (2006 MacBook).
Compare:
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Cr-48
@Google is Evil
Maybe Steve asked his good buddy Eric to move some old Apple inventory.
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Java (droid) will be better than a web browser but they know elisson will winnthatmone. They are between a rock and a hard place. They know a web browser will fail. So they do this dog and pony show while looking for an alternative. If they do push the web browser, it will be dead on arrival no matter how much money they give the media whores.
You people need to get a grip with the everyone is copying apple nonsense.
“First its OMG look at that Tablet it looks like the Ipad with its rectangular shape and its power buttons and its screen. I mean its looks just like the ipad”
– Well tell me what is a tablet suppose to look like, a freaking sphere? Its a TABLET. Just like all TV’s look a like, Just like all Lap Tops looks a like and just like all web browsers look a like, all tablets are going to look a like.
@Peter Pan
Seriously look at that computer beside an all black MacBook. It’s uncanny.
I would love to give it a try. I’m an Apple guy, no doubt, but I think competition is good for the consumer. For the most part, Google is a competitor I can support because at least they bring things to the table. Google Voice for instance. They didn’t invent web-based email, but they’ve perfected it (nearly). At least when they copy something, they make an attempt to enhance it. Even Apple needs someone to compete with, and lord knows Windows isn’t innovative at all.
all Lap Tops clearly does NOT looks a like because the best laptop theft deterrent ever was perfected by Dell Corporation. They make them all look like Dells.
Compare the Android tablets against the iPad and all the Windows tablets produced over the past 10 years. Guess which one they’re copying in form and function? Answer: iPad.
Like I said before. “Google is the new Microsoft”
Why on Earth are all these so called “computer companies” adhering to some advertiser’s Linux OS, when that advertiser, Google, is going to polute the OS over time?
Why doesn’t HP or Acer or Sony or others take Apple’s road and adopt a version of UNIX?
Unix has been well defined, refined, and refined again and has tons of support world wide.
What gives?
I think these so called Anroid adopter computer companies are weenies, unwilling to do any software work and they are going to get their clocks totally cleaned.
@ Peter Pan RE: “You people need to get a grip with the everyone is copying apple nonsense.
“First its OMG look at that Tablet it looks like the Ipad with its rectangular shape and its power buttons and its screen. I mean its looks just like the ipad”
– Well tell me what is a tablet suppose to look like, a freaking sphere? Its a TABLET. Just like all TV’s look a like, Just like all Lap Tops looks a like and just like all web browsers look a like, all tablets are going to look a like.”
What are they supposed to look like? LOL!
Obviously we aren’t talking about the form factor of the hardware itself. We are talking about the OS. The gravity of this can not be understated: Google copied iOS simple as that. They could have made a different looking operating system (such as Windows Phone 7 apparently has), but instead stole Apple’s intellectual property nearly down to the pixel. The layout and everything is mimicking iOS with no originality apparent on any front.
It’s not only the hardware, it’s the OS. And Google’s Android is a blatant ripoff of Apple’s iOS. Does that make any sense to ya?
Regarding Chrome OS, it IS a new concept. They admitted that this would be considered a secondary computer (like the iPad), with a difference that it will be entirely web-based. (watched the “keynote” on it). The web browser is the OS here. Any computer with the Chrome browser will be able to use the same web applications as this Cr-48. They have a LONG way to go with this concept and I don’t see it ever replacing a “full-fledged” operating system such as Windows (lol) and Mac OS X.
Also worth noting: Android applications won’t work on the Chrome OS. Developers will have to make all applications web-based. Nothing is stored on a Chrome OS computer. This makes it very dependent on the internet connection which I don’t like.
@Google is Evil & Peter Pan
IIRC, the drop down hinge on Apple laptops is patented by Apple.
This time, Apple can sue Google directly for patent infringement, rather than suing proxies like HTC & Motorola for Android patent infringement.
I’m sorry for Gaggle users, take Gmail, the best because it was exclusive, so no spam. Jokes on you, anybody can get it now after being in Beta for like 3 YEARS. Gaggle on really has fans because it has so much freetard stuff.
Gaggle is like the ugly girl that always puts out – on a dark lonely night, you gotta like her.
Apple is like the nice, pretty, educated girl – the cost is a premium, but the value far outweighs the cost.