Samsung Sliding PC 7 is Perfect for Chrome OS
Posted on 05. Jan, 2011 by Daniel Cawrey in Chrome OS, News
I’ve been using the Cr-48 long enough to realize something very important about it. The device is awesome for picking up with the web on the go, but the greatest form factor would be a tablet/laptop configuration. This way, you get the best of both worlds. You have a tablet and also something to easily write with, something that for me is important because I write prolifically.
Samsung introduced at CES today a product called the Sliding PC 7. The picture speaks more than I can describe, but imagine a phone with a slider, and the Sliding PC is that magnified to the size of a tablet/laptop.
I can already tell you that someone is testing this type of form factor for Chromium OS with the Dell Latitude XT2. The problem, however, is that this model currently costs thousands of dollars.
That’s too expensive for a Chrome OS device. The ideal price point would be less than $1,000, and most likely below $500. It makes me wonder if the name of this Samsung product is intentionally labeled with “7″ to denote that it will be a Windows 7 product, which would fit this price level.
I’m at CES, so when the Samsung booth opens up tomorrow I’ll be getting pictures and video of the Sliding PC 7 if I can.
UPDATE: It looks like Google is not officially testing tablet/laptops as far as can be seen.
7 Responses to “Samsung Sliding PC 7 is Perfect for Chrome OS”
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ghosr_reiter
05. Jan, 2011
Looks like some preety attractive hardware, definately a new form factor that would definitely prosper with a touch enabled layer of chrome os installed.
Daniel Cawrey
05. Jan, 2011
That touch layer is key.
Anonymous
06. Jan, 2011
Note -
The Chromium OS issue tracker issue you mentioned was reported by a GMail account, it was not tested by Google. The Googler commented that they are not testing with this kind of cards, too, which means that this is not something that they are heading towards.
Daniel Cawrey
06. Jan, 2011
I will update the article to reflect this, thanks for your comment.
I still believe that they could go with a form factor like this, despite the fact that the Chromium team doesn’t test with this particular wifi card.
android web application development
07. Jan, 2011
Its looks pretty cool I used a Samsung laptop couple of years back and this one is really impressive and attractive but in my opinion it’s very expensive. I am using Apple Mac these days and its better choice compared to this.
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