Comments on: ARM Powered Chromebook by Samsung

By: Google Introduces $249 Samsung Chromebook With ARM - Based CPU - Page 2

Google Introduces $249 Samsung Chromebook With ARM - Based CPU - Page 2 — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 21:00:47 +0000

[...] or 1080p external 42″ HDTV as external monitor with external mouse and keyboard…" ARM Powered Chromebook by Samsung – ARMdevices.net Reply With Quote + Reply to [...]

By: Maventwo

Maventwo — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 17:12:00 +0000

Hopefully, we will soon see Chromebook Ultrabooks from other makers than Samsung so the price will drop even further.

Just think all chinese makers.

By: CyberGusa

CyberGusa — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 19:49:00 +0000

So far they’ve managed to get Ubuntu and Fedora to run on it, so you don’t have to rely on how well Chrome OS is optimized. But it could be awhile before a good selection of software is optimized for the Exynos 5 but as long as the product is popular then that will eventually come…

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:46:00 +0000

Yup I expect all the HDMI Sticks to support Chrome OS on ARM soon enough. The performance won’t be as good as on ARM Cortex-A15 and Mali-T604 if the HDMI Stick only has an Allwinner ARM Cortex-A8 with single-core Mali-400 or even a Rockchip dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 with quad-core Mali-400 or a Freescale Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9. It’ll be interesting to see what kinds of performance optimizations the open source Chromium OS development can reach after this device gets released to millions of people worldwide.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:43:00 +0000

I expect you can soon play all the most advanced games on Chrome OS. Someone can just release any of the most advanced games using Web GL, native code, games can partly be cached and partly stream from the cloud, game engines can be downloaded to your Chromebook while levels are streamed and cached to your device, all emulation can work, all existing PC games can be streamed from the cloud from services like on live, all those games can work fully offline, just connect external storage such as a 3TB US3 hard drive that has all the game contents stored offline, within months of this device being in the hands of millions of people worldwide, I think you can look forward to all of that and much more.

By: Samsung Chromebook Showcased at ARM TechCon | Linux Netbook Video

Samsung Chromebook Showcased at ARM TechCon | Linux Netbook Video — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:33:22 +0000

[...] by Akshay Agrawal — Director of Marketing, System LSI, Samsung Semiconductor — as he talks to an excited Charbax at the recent ARM TechCon in Santa Clara. Agrawal states that the Samsung Chromebook is the first [...]

By: Jesse Lee

Jesse Lee — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:10:00 +0000

Now let’s put this into an HDMI stick with Linux and 3D HW Accel and it would be worthy of being awesome.

By: Jesse Lee

Jesse Lee — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:09:00 +0000

Not for me that are NO GAMES ON IT or for IT. I can’t run even basic emulation at all and I can’t play open source Linux games on it AT ALL so its pretty much useless to me. Little to No Hardware Acceleration is a BIG NO NO for me as well.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:43:00 +0000

Yes it’s awesome for 11.6″. I expect there can be a 13.3″ for $299 also.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:41:00 +0000

One for my grand-mother, one for my mother and one for me. This really is the laptop for everyone.

By: Jasper

Jasper — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:27:00 +0000

Can I ask why three?

By: Marc Guillot

Marc Guillot — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:22:00 +0000

I like it a lot as a hardware device.

I will probably get one and switch his ChromeOS with Ubuntu.