NVidia Tegra Smartbooks with Google Chrome OS – Thumbs-up

In starting of September, the rumor blew from China that Lenovo and Acer could be releasing NVidia Tegra based Smartbooks which will run Google Chrome OS. According to the latest news bits, these Tegra based Smartbooks could actually land by the end of this month.

For those who have doubts about the upcoming Tegra platform, it can handle HD playback with ease with power consumption even lower than the Atom processors that are used in wide variety of netbooks right now

Lenovo to enter the Smartbook market! – Runs Google Chrome OS

According to Commercial Times (China), Lenovo is planning to launch a smartbook by the end of September 2009. The smartbook is rumored to use the Nvidia’s Tegra chipset and will use Google’s Chrome OS.

It is nice to see Lenovo using Chrome OS for their smartbook and not Google’s mobile phone OS, Android. After all, it does not makes any sense of using a mobile phone OS on a netbook.

Acer and Lenovo to launch Google Chome netbooks

Lenovo and Acer, both are going to launch new netbook, which will be based on Nvidia Tegra platform and these netbooks will be the first ones running the Google Chrome OS. We believe that Google Chrome OS will be the one that will make the Linux OS really popular. However, we must consider the fact that it would only be possible if and only if, Google opens doors to the Linux community.

Qualcomm betting a lot on Smartbooks – says future is very bright for Smartbook

Qualcomm is giving its best endeavor to increase its sales and thinks that computers in the future will be just like Mobile Phones. By computers, they mean Smartbooks which are basically netbooks running Android, Google Chrome OS or Linux.

Most of the upcoming Smartbooks will be using ARM processors, precisely Qualcomm ARM-based CPUs.

Consumers want computers that will run all day on one battery charge, don’t need to be switched off and are always receiving data, said Jacobs, whose company is the world’s biggest maker of mobile-phone chips.

According to Qualcomm, people do not want to carry a bulky laptop and its charger all day with them. They want a device that can run all day and remain connected too. More than 12 companies have decided to use the Snapdragon’s chip, which runs at 1GHz clock speed. The future is surely very exciting and we are waiting for the Snapdragon-based netbooks AKA Smartbooks to hit the market

Dell to offer Google Chrome OS on future netbooks, along with Windows XP and Ubuntu OS

Dell is keenly interested in forthcoming smartbooks and they are very much looking forward to provide Google’s Chrome OS on future netbooks.

“The target market for smartbooks will be no different from Linux-based netbooks as they both have the same usage scenario. Like smartbooks, Linux-based netbooks are targeted at those looking for quick access to Web-based applications.The more [Web-based] applications there are, the better it is for Linux,” Finch, Dell’s official, said.

And some Linux news, Dell has decided to update the Ubuntu 8.04 software with the Ubuntu 9.04 NBR and will release an update for their Ubuntu netbooks in coming week.

“There are still a large percentage of people that prefer Windows, even on a netbook,” Finch said. Many are familiar with the look and feel of Windows, and are unwilling to trade in for the longer battery life offered by Linux. He couldn’t comment about the possible adoption rates of Windows 7, which is due for release on Oct. 22.

Chrome Netbooks coming at the end of year 2009

According to Google’s CEO, we could see some netbooks running Chrome OS at this year. According to few online sources, Acer and HP might be the first ones to create the first netbooks based on Chrome OS.

Google Chrome is the Google’s second operating system: first was the Google Android OS that was meant for phones, which some manufactures are planning to use on their netbooks and second is the Google Chrome OS that will be used exclusively in netbooks and notebooks.

Google announces Google Chrome OS for Netbooks

Google Chome OS – not to confused with Google Android OS, has been announced by Google. According to Google, we have been using operating system that was not designed for “web browsing”. It sounds a bit bizarre as even then, the (awful) Internet Explorer was being bundled with every copy of Windows OS.

Google Chome is an open source and light-weight operating system that is designed to load within few seconds after you have pressed the power button. Google says that their upcoming OS is designed to run on both x86 as-well-as ARM chips. So expect to makes its debut on MIDs too along with netbooks.Google Chrome OS is using Linux kernel underneath and thus their OS is not prone to viruses and trojans.

Right now, over 30 million people are using Google Chome OS. Google is already in talks with computer manufactures. I am sure Chrome OS will be used as a supplementary OS by a lot of people in coming months, if not as main OS.