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By: I am going to Computex – ARMdevices.net

I am going to Computex – ARMdevices.net — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:31:57 +0000

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By: canada batteries

canada batteries — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:06:02 +0000

Acer will innovative enough and be one of the first big laptop manufacturers to use an ARM Processor in a Laptop form factor to lower the price, increase battery runtime, lower the weight and size of their new Chrome OS line of laptops,

By: notlofty

notlofty — Fri, 21 May 2010 06:49:04 +0000

Hey Charbax, whatever happened to that $95 Android pink notebook that you had? You never made a video of that or showed the hacked marketplace on it. At least not that I can find. Thats under $100

By: Hased

Hased — Sun, 16 May 2010 01:15:31 +0000

This is similar to chinese that they are also trying to do low cost net devices.
http://riknik.weebly.com/1/post/2010/05/chinese...

By: Charbax

Charbax — Sat, 15 May 2010 18:19:03 +0000

Yup I prefer keeping the same user experience and lowering the price. The hard drive plastic door could be interchangeable with another plastic thing that somehow would add a bump under the device, I don't know if that would make sense. Or else, just make it thick enough to accomodate a hard drive. Or else simply not build it to include a hard drive. The hard drive would be the most power consuming component if used.

By: notlofty

notlofty — Sat, 15 May 2010 01:46:39 +0000

Ohhh you want to push the price down far below the price of netbooks. I was fine with them being the same price as Netbooks with the SSD and the accelerometer and the touchscreen and all those goodies that a netbook doesn't have.
SATA drives are what, 9.5mm? Thats almost at the 1cm mark that you wanted right there. Would it make the device too think? 2 SD card slots would be great tho.
I like your ideas tho! If only we could get device manufacturers to make each of us our own ideal device that we are hoping for…

By: Charbax

Charbax — Sat, 15 May 2010 01:31:31 +0000

I'd like a $99 2GB ARM Chrome OS Smartbook with 2 empty SD card slots, or even with 2 SD card slots and one empty 2.5″ hard drive slot as well. That would just be an empty compartment to connect any SATA hard drive up to 2.5″ in size right there. The extra plastic door, empty space and SATA connector wouldn't cost more than $3 to add.

SD is plenty enough speed to store and stream video files off of. Even HD videos. SSD speeds is simply not needed for media files. For OS files yes, but not opening, storing, streaming of media files.

By: notlofty

notlofty — Sat, 15 May 2010 01:18:58 +0000

SD cards are great but isn't it always good to have some space on the device itself? Its like having built in 3G so you don't have to worry about a dongle.
Especially since SD cards aren't any cheaper than SSD's and don't provide the same speed.
How would an optional HDD slot work? Wouldn't sliding a HDD into the side of a netbook or smaller device take up too much space?

By: Charbax

Charbax — Sat, 15 May 2010 01:10:17 +0000

Media contents can be loaded from an SD card or optional hard drive slot.

By: notlofty

notlofty — Sat, 15 May 2010 00:48:38 +0000

The current builds of Chromium OS out there can run on 2GB flash drives.
But you wouldn't want to have the minimum size SSD so that you could put media or offline content on the device as well.
ARM processor will be cheaper than intel but then SSD and all the other high quality components that they want to add will make up for that. But even the Chromium build by Hexeh I have used boots in 5 seconds on an SSD so it'll be fast.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 14 May 2010 23:41:05 +0000

"It will be up to the manufacturers who do it"

300-400 dollars is the price of Intel based netbooks.

Chrome OS supports ARM Powered laptop designs, and those are not yet released but it's proven to be significantly cheaper than Intel.

By: Marvell

Marvell — Fri, 14 May 2010 23:12:12 +0000

I can't find the hardware requirements for Chrome OS, but i read that there must be a SSD, and >=16GB.

Eric Schmidt the Google-CEO: "“It will be up to the manufacturers who do it, but the price points you should think about are the current netbook pricings which are 300 dollar, 400 dollar price points"

http://www.netbookchoice.com/2010/04/20/google-...

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 14 May 2010 22:20:51 +0000

Can't Chrome OS work on 4GB or 8GB?

By: Marvell

Marvell — Fri, 14 May 2010 21:27:46 +0000

Below $199 retail ?

How? ChromeOS want a >=16 GB SSD.

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15 17 Inch Kenneth Cole Laptop Brief Briefcase Bag — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:11:15 +0000

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By: notlofty

notlofty — Fri, 14 May 2010 10:50:24 +0000

If they make the device you talked about I will have to buy it. Tho I'd like the swivel screen and the touch.
I think its too good to be true tho. I don't think a big manufacturer is willing to make something so different than what people are used to. People like us would love that device but what about the general public? If they want to dual boot an OS with Android what if they dual booted Chrome and Android? They'd have to get the marketplace too for it to really be worth it, but to have all the applications of Android and then the full net and all that Chrome can do.
With Smartbooks on the rise and Chrome OS coming soon I'm excited for the future of more mobile computing.