Posted on 23 August 2011.
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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Posted on 19 August 2011. Tags: chrombook virtualbox, install chrome os virtualbox
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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Posted on 21 July 2011.
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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Posted on 02 July 2011. Tags: chromebook l2tp
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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Posted on 03 June 2011. Tags: kogan chrome specs
If you do not want to wait till June 15 (2011) to get your hands on the Samsung or Acer Chromium laptop, you can pick the one from Kogan which is a popular Australian consumer electronics company. This laptop comes with Intel SU2300 ULV processor that runs at 1.3GHz clock speed, 11.6 inch display, 1366 x 768 pixel resolution, 1GB RAM, 30GB SSD (solid state drive) and 802.11n Wi-Fi.
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Posted on 17 March 2011. Tags: asus chrome netbook release date
Asus is all set to unveil its new netbook running Chromium operating system in the month of June. This netbook, which will be launched in cooperation with Intel, is likely to be powered by the current generation of single core Atom processor (Atom N455, N475) since Chrome OS does not require a lot of horsepower to run.
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Posted on 27 February 2011.
Folks at Google are now re-thinking the windows approach and are developing a multi window interface for the Chromium operating system as-well-as HW acceleration to support. This will be done to support new visual effects and pixel shaders.

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Posted on 05 February 2011. Tags: gsm cr 48
The Google Chromium netbook, CR-48 comes with built in Gobi wireless chip that is perfectly capable of connecting to various GSM networks, but Google has coded it to work with only some mobile broadband protocols.
Google has now unleashed an update for the Chromium OS that would allow you to enable GSM support with the AT&T network as well. Here are the instructions:
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Posted on 10 December 2010. Tags: cr 48 unboxing
Ben Kessler, a beta tester has received his Chrome OS notebook yesterday and has posted first unboxing pics on Flickr. He reports that the build quality is pretty good and the case has a rubberized plastic feel to it.

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Posted on 08 December 2010.
Inventec has confirmed that it has already shipped around 60,000 Chrome netbooks to Google that are expected to be used for testing. It is being reported that PC vendors will start offering Chromium netbooks in H1 2011.

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