Posted on 28 June 2011.
Google has found yet another way to fine tune the performance of its browser. Google is adding another stage to its prerendering process and is developing search queries launched by Chrome. This advancement, accelerating search queries, has only become available through the recent versions of Chromium. This will allow for instant search results, this feature works across multiple windows.
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Posted on 28 June 2011.
Acer has made it official that its first Chromium netbook will hit the retail shelves for 350 dollars this month (June, 11). Note that this is the Wi-Fi only model and the 3G capable model will be coming sometime later this summer.
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Posted on 03 June 2011.
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 27 April 2011.
We mentioned in 2009 about Acer working on a Chromium netbook (which turned out to be Acer ZGA) last year but then there were several reports of Acer cancelling the project. Now, a mention of a netbook with Chrome OS called ZGB has been spotted in a bug report (filed few hours back). This is what the report says,
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Posted on 17 March 2011.
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.
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.
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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Posted on 07 December 2010.
Google is giving away a limited number of Chrome netbook. Google is still calling it a work-in-progress since Chromium is still in development. To get one, you need to be in US; 18 years + in age and fill the form given on this page.
Check out Google Cr-48
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