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Google names Lenovo, others as Chrome OS partners

by John Hobbes , posted 07/10/09 5:21 AM

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In case you were under a rock the past few days, Google recently announced their forthcoming web-centric operating system, Chrome OS. I’ve included some links at the bottom for those who haven’t read up on this major announcement, as I would not do justice to the topic by trying to write intelligently about it when so many others have.

Google also recently announced on their blog, via a helpful Chrome OS FAQ post, several industry players who are on board to support the netbook-oriented OS. Lenovo is in the list, as are Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba. You can see three interesting camps within this list: PC manufacturers, chip manufacturers (although no PC-level chips, mainly ARM), and Adobe = Flash (and possibly other Adobe softwares). But who don’t you see on this list?

But what is the best part of this?

Is Google Chrome OS free?
Yes – Google Chrome OS is an open source project and will be available to use at no cost.

Rock on Google.

Sincerely yours,
Addicted Gmail, Google Maps, Chrome (browser) user

Gottabemobile – “Google Chrome OS: Winner and Losers” – interesting op ed
Gizmodo – “Giz Explains: What the Hell’s Google Chrome OS” – Giz doing what they do
Google Chrome blog

Filed under: Lenovo News, Tech News

One Response to “Google names Lenovo, others as Chrome OS partners”

  1. Jarek Piórkowski says:

    I doubt it will be available as pre-installed option on Thinkpads, except possibly the SL line. Seems like a nice OS for the smaller Ideapads though, and you can always install by yourself on a W700 if so inclined.

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