Acer will be launching its Chromium netbook later this year. However, since Chromium OS is still a new player in the game, Acer will be bundling it with their Windows 7 Starter netbooks. Also, Acer Chrome OS netbooks will account for just 10% of total netbook sales.

Acer is prepping a dedicated App Store for its Chromium netbooks that will feature Chrome OS extensions and other online apps.

source: bloomberg and gadget mix

Tech specifications of the rumored Google Chrome netbook are already out and they are surely looking good, atleast on the paper.

The Google netbook will sport a 10.1-inch display capable of identifying multi-touch gestures. Powered by Nvidia’s Tegra processor that is based on ARM infrastructure, it will use much less energy than the Intel Atom processor.

This netbook will have 64GB of SSD goodness for storage and 2GB RAM. It is axiomatic it will come with WiFi, Bluetooth, LAN, USB ports and webcam.

It will be launched during the holiday season next year (2010).  Price? Under $300! Happy now?

source: ibtimes

According to Acer’s chairman, JT Wang, Acer will be the first netbook vendor to unleash Chrome OS netbook.

This is a great news for the Chrome OS community as Acer is one powerful player in the netbook market. In fact, it is number one when it comes to netbook sales.

Also in the news is Android Aspire D250 netbook from Acer whose sales have been disappoting so far. This must have forced the Acer to with the Chrome OS rather than Phone-centric Android OS

source: digitimes

The great google community has come forward and have enlisted the netbooks that have been able to run the Chrome OS. Note that not all the features currently work.

• ASUS EEE 1005HA
• ASUS EEE 901
• SONY VAIO W
• ASUS EEE 700/701/702
• Lenovo S12
• Packard Bell Dot S/R netbooks
• Packard Bell Dot s
• Acer Aspire 531H
• Asus eee 900
• Asus eee 1008HA
• Gateway LT20
• Acer Aspire D250
• Toshiba NB200
• ASUS EEE 1000
• Dell Mini 10V
• HP Mini 5101
• Lenovo S10

[via google and gadgetmix]