Monday, June 18, 2012

New Mobile Tech Products - Chromebox And Chrome

By Shaine Murray


What is the Chromebox? The brand new Samsung Chromebook functions a dual-core Intel Celeron Processor 867 at 1.3GHz, compared to last year's Chromebook which ran a dual-core Intel Atom N570 at 1.66GHz. The Celeron architecture is much more sophisticated, plus the laptop definitely seems zippy in our limited assessment thus far. We are going to have more to say on performance in the upcoming article, that will include some benchmarking. The Chromebox posseses an Intel Celeron B840 operating at 1.9GHz.

The Chromebox includes a good number of ports, including half a dozen USB 2.0 ports and two DisplayPort slots which can be compatible with HDMI, DVI, and VGA.

Strangely, the Chromebox has no Sdcard reader, yet USB devices which could read SD cards are typical at any rate. The revolutionary Chromebook has two USB 2.0 ports, DisplayPort output, as well as an SD card reader. The two laptop as well as desktop have a Gigabit Ethernet port. Because the laptop is quite thin, the Ethernet dock opens up and juts out a lttle bit to slip the cable.

Even though the computers are less expensive than any Mac and several Windows PCs, we still think they're a bit high priced for products made to run just one application: the Chrome Web browser. Yet Chrome products are fast, and extraordinarily easy to use.

We just recently published an in-depth study of Google's new Aura user interface for Chrome OS, a window manager that makes Chromebooks act a lot more the Windows, Mac, and Linux computers folks are familiar with. When Chromebooks initially became available not too long ago, they supported viewing of only one browser tab at any given time so you could not, by way of example, enter in a Google Doc and view an outside webpage at the same time. Parallel viewing of numerous browser windows was added in just a few months, and also the more robust Aura user interface reach the Chrome OS developer channel in April of this year.

Today, Aura turns into the standard user interface for Chrome OS in an operating system upgrade. For the first time, this offers Chrome OS a graphical user interface that is accessible outside of the browser, even though it is still very Web-centric. There exists an icon for the file manager, but for the greater degree the "applications" outlined are links to web sites. Users may still fill up the entire display screen with the Chrome browser by simply clicking a little box at the very top right of the display.

Google has even further improved Chrome OS for businesses, permitting the systems to automatically configure software, network configuration settings, WiFi, VPN access, and organizational guidelines, Sheth said. Sheth believes that enterprises could take a Chromebook from your delivery truck and hand it on to an end user without any IT participation. This brand new technology supports Google Chrome web browser.




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