The Google Chrome operating system has been available for almost a year with lots of updates to the OS, but very little traction in the market. Google made it prominent by giving away thousands of CR-48 laptops, but when the final version was released there were only two hardware makers on board – Samsung and Acer. Sadly that hasn’t changed since the release, and it didn’t change at CES , but there was some Chrome OS news there.
Samsung announced two new additions to the Chrome world – one is a new notebook, but the other is the first Chrome desktop computer, or “Chromebox”. The Series 5 notebook has been updated to include 2 GB of RAM (which it already had – not sure if the RAM type changed), a 16 GB SSD (it previously had a 16 GB Serial ATA), and a slightly faster CPU. Meanwhile, the Chromebox is considered a Series 3 product, and it comes with six USB ports, a DVI port, 2 Display Link ports, an ethernet jack, and is currently running Chrome 17.0.963.15. It’s also rumored to have a dual-core processor under the hood, along with 2 GB of RAM, and 16 GB SSD. The video below gives a good idea of what both new products look like.
Video Source: BetaNews