Google OS (operating system) for laptop based officially introduced on Thursday, May 10 at Google’s annual developer conference event I / O held in San Francisco, United States. There Google reveals Chrome laptops from the manufacturers, Samsung and Acer.
After implemented Google OS in their products, Samsung planned the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook soon be marketed in several countries. They cost around $ 429 for a Wi-Fi model and $ 499 for a 3G model (including Wi-Fi). Then Acer schedule it’s Acer Chromebook Wi Fi model with the price around $ 349. Both Chrome Notebook from Samsung and the Acer will available from June 15 in the United States.
“We prefer to focus on the laptop because almost all of the use of websites accessed mostly from this device,” said Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Product Management of Google.
The benefit of Google OS (Google Chrome OS) is a lightweight operating system and has boot time in seconds. Chrome devices also only have a small internal storage, because many web applications in it depend on cloud-based data storage.
In the same time Google also introduced a subscription system services for laptop Chrome, which are divided into 2 segments, for business and education segments. With the subscription fee ranging from USD 20 to USD 28 per month, Google promised the consumers gets full support from Google.
Reported by Cnet, here are the key features of Chrome notebooks that Google OS implemented in it:
- Dual-core Atom N570 1.66GHz processor
- 16GB solid-state drive (mSATA)
- HDMI port
- 11-inch and 12-inch screen size
- Battery life up to 8 hours
- Instant-on
- Instant Web connectivity
- 3G connectivity
- Cloud-based applications with Google OS
There we just wait for Google OS and Google Chromebook to be launched, and try to use this laptop!