Acer Will Have First Chrome OS Machine in 2010
Posted on 03. Dec, 2009 by Daniel Cawrey in News
It’s been reported all over the net that Acer chief JT Wang is claiming his company will be the first manufacturer to release a full fledged netbook that is running Chrome OS. This is not surprising seeing as how Acer has already released the Aspire One AO250 (left) as a dual-boot machine with Windows XP and Android. I don’t know what the Android experience would be like, but a dual boot netbook with XP and Chrome OS would be an awesome combination.
I can’t wait to have a machine that runs Chrome so I can use it on a daily basis, but my concern (one of a few, actually) is that with Chrome I won’t be able to open and manipulate files on my machine. At least that’s been the theory so far based on Google’s documentation – I’m conceptualizing, I know. But If I had a dual boot machine with XP or Ubuntu along with Chrome OS, now that would be cool.
Now, I’ve always been a Dell fan for my laptops, but lately I have become somewhat captivated by Acer’s lineup. Years ago, I equated Acer with crappy quality but they have really taken a lot of market share from Dell and other PC makers in the past few years. I think that it is smart for Acer to captivate early adopters for Chromium – the appeal for Chrome is going to be BIG. Many people don’t want to fuss with computers anymore and they want it to just work and I really feel that Google is on to something good.
We’ll keep you posted on the latest.
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