Sony is yet to jump onto the Chromium netbook bandwagon officially, but the recent FCC leak suggest that the Japanese giant is working on a Chomebook called Vaio C111 VC. Judging by the pictures, it appears to have a 11.6 inch display, a very comfortable keyboard with a spacious touchpad.

Other specs include an 16GB solid state drive, HDMI port, headphone, earphone jacks, power port, 2x USB 2.0 ports, Kensington lock and SD card reader. Its battery is removable and has a capacity of 4100mAh, which is good enough to make a light operating system like Chromium OS run for hours.

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While a slew of laptop companies released Celeron powered Windows notebooks last year, none released a Celeron powered Chromium netbook – until now. Samsung has released an Intel Celeron based Series 5 Chromebook. This new budget processor powered netbook replaces the Atom N570 dual core chip that was used in the previous model.

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Samsung has released a new Series 5 Chromium netbook just in time for Christmas. This new model, XE500C21-A04US, features a 12.1 inch display and come with 2x USB 2.0 ports, SD card slot – all packed in a frame that is mere 0.79 inches thick.

This Samsung chromebook uses Superbright technology that is 36 percent more brighter than an ‘ordinary’ LCD display. Information about its processor is not available, but we do know that it has a dual core processor by Intel.

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Acer has reduced the price of its Chromium netbook, AC700. Earlier, it was being retailed for 350 dollars, but now the company is selling it for just 300 dollars on sites like Amazon. For those who do not know, AC700 is one of the first Chromebooks and it ships with Google Chromium operating system instead of windows 7 starter that is widely used in Atom powered netbooks.

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Although Microsoft may produce the most widely used OS for home computers, in terms of operating systems for mobile devices on the latest contract phones, they are firmly in the runner up position.  In an effort to boost their reputation in the mobile world, Windows are developing Windows 8; their latest attempt to steal iOS and Android’s mobile operating system crown.

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Cedar Trail M, which is successor of Atom processor built with 32nm is going to be out at the end of this year and it has now been confirmed that these two processors work just fine with the Atom N2800 and N2600 if manufactures want to use them in their Chromium netbooks.

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The amazing folks at hexxeh have now made the VDI files public which means anyone with a copy of Virtualbox can now install Chromium / Chrome OS on to their computer. To use this VDI files, just install VirtualBox and create a new virtual machine in it. Download a VDI file.

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Over the past month, Google has enjoyed moderate success with its Chromebook, aka Chromium netbooks. Since it runs a not-so-beefy operating system based on Linux, it does not requires a lot of horsepower to run. However, Google will be adding a lot functionality into it which might slow down things a little bit and it order to prevent that, Google will be swapping the current Atom N570 to Core i series processors.

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The exquisitely designed Samsung Series 5 notebook computer, or “Chromebook” has finally been released. The Series 5 is built with a dual-core, 1.66Ghz Intel Antom N570 processor, 2GB of RAM and a beautifully clear 12.1 inch screen. The petite 16GB hard disk isn’t likely to take your breath away, but Chrome OS’ cloud-based file storage system, eight hour battery life and the rapid eight second boot time just might.

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It may surprise you but Chromebooks have VPN functionality built in. However, it is still a beta feature and is deactivated by default. Here are the steps to activate it. Type in about:flags in the address bar and enable "VPN support" from the list of experiments.

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