The first look at the new Samsung Chromebook. Pretty sweet looking piece of tech. I still think they're a little overpriced though. I though Chrome OS based netbooks would come in at about the $200 price mark. While the Samsung entry is pretty sleek (can you say Mac-book like?), I don't think the higher price($500) is justified.
We'll see what the market will support. In the mean time, head over here to take a look at the pretty pictures:
Samsung Chromebook: Hands-On Visual Tour -- InformationWeek
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Top 10 reasons Chromebook will forever change corporate laptop use | Enterprise Features
With just over 1 week to go until the general availability of the Chromebook (Acer and Samsung versions) running Chrome OS, there is this article to peruse listing the Top 10 reasons that the Chromebook is a great idea for corporate use.
Top 10 reasons Chromebook will forever change corporate laptop use | Enterprise Features
Top 10 reasons Chromebook will forever change corporate laptop use | Enterprise Features
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Official Google Enterprise Blog: Another step in the browser-based desktop revolution
Citrix announced that their Citrix Receiver will be available in the Chrome Web Store soon. The Citrix Receiver will work with Citrix servers to allow your Chromebook (CR-48) to run enterprise applications natively. This fits in very nicely with the Corporate lease option of $28/mo. for chromebooks. Now you can outfit an entire sales fleet with Chromebooks, and the users can run your company's software right on the Chromebook via the Citrix Receiver application. And if your company avails itself of Google Apps, you will find that collaboration on work documents and applications will lead to greater productivity.
Read the story here on the Official Google Enterprise Blog:
Official Google Enterprise Blog: Another step in the browser-based desktop revolution
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Product Manager of Chrome OS for Business: "You Can Just Pay Monthly" | thechromesource - Google Chrome and Chrome OS News and Forum
Image via WikipediaI thought this line of discussion regarding the monthly subscription service to own a Chrome OS powered device needed more exposure.Read this interesting post about the plan from the head of the business unit that is involved in business:
Product Manager of Chrome OS for Business: "You Can Just Pay Monthly" | thechromesource - Google Chrome and Chrome OS News and Forum
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Google Chrome 10: A Feature Breakdown - PCWorld
Image via WikipediaFor those of you CR-48 owners that are still on the Beta channel, here is a good article that explains most of the features of the Google Chrome Browser version 10. The article pays particular attention to the new settings interface (tab-based) and what all of the features in the settings are used for.
Beta Channel users can find this article at:
Google Chrome 10: A Feature Breakdown - PCWorld
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Another Update in the Development Channel for CR-48s
Image via CrunchBaseLast night (3/7) brought a new update to the Development Channel, and now we have the following version information:Chrome OS 0.11.227.0 (Official Build) dev-channel x86-mario
Google Chrome 11.0.690.0
However, this release comes with more problems than it's worth, and from what I hear this morning the update has been pulled.
The problems were many: Crashing on every restart, blank, white pages, inability to go to bookmarked pages and receive any data, plus many more. A new functionality was added to pre-render web pages and according to on of the moderators on the Google Groups group for the pilot program, you need to disable this in order for pages to load correctly. You do this by going to the about:flags page and selecting Disable from the drop-down in the Pre-rendering group. Problem is, a lot of people can't even get to the about:flags page to change this setting. It takes several reboots, closing all tabs, a couple of crashes and, well, you get the idea.
On a good note, with the upgrade to Chrome 11.0.690.0, there is a very noticeable speed improvement. Pages draw much more quickly, and there is no lag in any of the websites that I normally use. Reminds me more of the commercial that Google did early on for Chrome that show it being faster than a speeding projectile and other things. Also the track-pad is much better behaved. Scrolling in all directions is smooth and controllable. Another new feature is the window cycle button in the top of the window by the battery monitor. If you have several windows and panels open, pressing this button will cycle through them all.
So, if the rumor about the update being pulled is correct, then hopefully the next release will fix the problems for those of us who got this upgrade. When that happens, this will be a great little machine. Snappy, responsive and with some really great features.
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