Google has unveiled its first laptop running its own Chrome operating system. The laptop is not actually available for sale yet, but is part of a pilot testing program. If you live in the U.S., Google has a form you may submit to “Test drive a Chrome notebook<\/a>”\u00a0so that you may apply to receive one of these laptops as a pilot tester.<\/p>\n

The laptops, built by Samsung and Acer, are expected to be available for sale in mid-2011. A single battery charge provides 8 hours of “active” use and 7 days of standby. They have a 12.1″ screen and no hard drive. For U.S. customer they will come with 100 MB of free wireless data transfer per month for two years, supplied by Verizon.<\/p>\n

The Chrome laptop is built around the concept of “cloud computing”, wherein most of the applications and services run on Google’s servers (the cloud) accessible over the Internet.<\/p>\n

At 3.8 pounds, it seems a little heavy to me. That’s less than most conventional laptops, but it seems to me that they are really competing with much lighter netbooks. This is a prototype though, so perhaps specs will change by time of release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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