Monday, June 11, 2012

Delivered Fresh: Chromebox And Google

By Shaine Murray


Samsung and Google have released the new generation of hardware designed to operate Chrome OS. Google's Chrome operating-system is really an OS created around a web browser, and it's meant to boot rapidly, let you get on-line within a couple of seconds, and run web apps while saving minimal data to local storage. Read through down below if you prefer Chromebook or Chromebox?

There aren't numerous surprises in today's news. We got early versions of Samsung's new Chromebook as well as ChromeBox at CES in January, and the ultimate product details and prices were inadvertently leaked by retailers a couple weeks ago. In fact, at least one Samsung Chromebox was accidentally sold and evaluated before the release date.

In any case, everything is established now, and here's what we know. This is named the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook 550 and also the brand new Chrome OS desktop is known as the Samsung Series 3 Chromebox.

There's two forms of these: one with 3G and WiFi, and the other with WiFi only. Both Chromebooks as well as the Chromebox feature 4GB of RAM as well as 16GB solid state disks for storage. They all feature Intel HD 3000 graphics.

These laptop computers have 12.1 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel displays, 1.3 GHz Intel Celeron 867 dual core processors, support for 1080p HD video playback upon an external display via DisplayPort output, 2 USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet jacks, as well as a flash card reader. Additionally they feature 1MP front-facing cameras and 802.11n WiFi.

This is a bit smaller considering that there's no built-in screen. The small computer weighs just 2.45 pounds. What's more, it features a more powerful 1.9 GHz Intel Celeron B840 dual core processor chip, 6 USB 2.0 ports, 2 DisplayPorts with support for 2560 x1600 pixel displays 802.11n WiFi, and Ethernet.

Samsung includes a keyboard together with the Chromebox and offers a Bluetooth keyboard option. This product in addition has DVI output.

As soon as Samsung unveiled its first Chromebook this year, Acer also released its own Chromebook at the same time. This season Samsung is definitely the only company up to now introducing brand-new Chrome OS units powered by faster Intel Celeron processor chip.

Even though it's most likely not a fantastic indication that Google once had two Chrome Operating System partners and now generally seems to only have one, Samsung's newest Chromebook as well as Google's latest version of the Chrome os are getting to begin with positive reviews.

Chrome OS boots faster, downloads updates instantly, and provides the "security" of saving all your important data in the cloud - if you consider that a feature. Nevertheless it still kind of sounds like you spend more and get less once you purchase a Chrome OS device instead of a Windows laptop. This is manufactured together with Google.

I'm hoping to get my hands on a demo unit shortly, so maybe I'll change my mind after spending a while using a 2nd generation Chromebook.




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