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Acer to launch netbook with Google Chrome based OS – Taiwan
Based computer company, Acer has planned to launch a netbook with an operating system
based on Google browser Google Chrome. According to industry sources this netbook
would be available in the market by the second half of 2010. Acer had earlier launched
a netbook that was based on Google Mobile operating system, called Android. Acer
was the first first-tier vendor to launch a Google Android-based netbook in the
market. Although demand for the model was not as strong as expected, it did not
dampen Acer's willingness to develop netbooks with non-Microsoft operating systems.
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Google Chrome for Mac released – Google has launched a version
of its Google Chrome internet browser that is compatible with the Apple Mac OS X.
Google Chrome for Mac is still in beta, and lacks some of the features available
in Google Chrome for Windows. Based in the WebKit technology that forms the kernel
of Apple's own Safari browser, Google Chrome is a slim, fast and secure web browser.
It may lack some of the features of browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox,
but it is stable and rapid.
The 17.6MB Google Chrome for Mac download requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later and an
Intel processor. Right now it lacks features from its Windows counterpart such as
a Bookmark Manager, support for Google Gears, and full extension architecture.
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Intel launches redesigned Atom chip for Netbooks – Intel
is launching the biggest makeover of the Atom processor since the seminal chip debuted
in the spring of 2008, and consumers can expect a crush of new Netbooks to follow.
Intel's latest N450 processor and NM10 Express chipset--technology that had been
previously referred to as "Pine Trail" will be used in a new raft of Netbooks that
will debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in January. Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Dell,
Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo and others are expected to either announce new systems before
the show or exhibit new models there.
There will be more than 80 new Netbook designs on the way, with systems coming available
by January 4.The Pine Trail design squeezes the graphics function, previously on
a separate chip, onto the central processing unit, or CPU, a first for Intel. The
result by decreasing the number of chips from three to two is a reduction in the
overall chip package size by 60 percent.
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Dell offers cheap Linux-based quick-boot system – Dell is
offering as an option for some laptops a memory module called Latitude on Flash
that can boot up a computer in seconds. The module is available alongside the option
of an existing quick-boot system that uses an Arm processor.
Dell's Latitude on Flash module snaps into an internal mini-card slot and allows
computers to boot in a few seconds, using the laptop's main x86 processor instead
of a separate arm chip. The module is offered as an option for Latitude E-series
systems, which can also be equipped with the existing quick-boot system, called
Latitude On, that's based on an Arm-based OMAP processor from Texas Instruments.
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