As expected, the new Google Chromebook – the Samsung Series 5 – is going to hit a damn tempting price point.
The Wi-Fi only version will cost just £349 form PC World, while the Wi-Fi & 3G model will cost just £399.
Both models will be available from 24th June, from both PC World and Amazon.co.uk.
And just incase you’d like to start dreaming now, here’s those specs in full…
Wondering what’s so special about the Samsung Series 5 Chromebook? And what exactly Google’s Chome OS is all about? Well, allow us to present this achingly trendy – and rather idiot-proof – video which neatly makes sense of Google’s Windows-buster…
News of the first Chrome OS netbooks has arrived this week, and if it delivers what it promises then we could be looking at a completely different OS experience in the future, counter to what we get from Windows now. What do you think, could Chrome OS catch on, forcing Windows to make a paradigm shift in its make up to save being killed outright? Or is Microsoft’s move into the cloud already pushing it in a similar direction to Chrome OS?
Click and tell, and drop us a line in the comments to tell us what you think…
The Blackberry PlayBook hasn’t been released yet but RIM head-honcho Mike Lazaridis is talking big. He says the Blackberry PlayBook OS is the future direction for ALL Blackberry smartphones and is the magic bullet that will bounce Blackberry into the next stage of its development. He predicts that the QNX-based Blackberry PlayBook OS will migrate to multi-core Blackberry smartphones and other tablets in the next few years…
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After uproar against the survey that said Android users were actually Apple fanboys in the closet, hankering after an iPhone, we asked you what the best OS was. Apple’s iOS still trumped Android, but only by a tiny 2.5 per cent. Windows Phone 7, despite being a newcomer, came in a surprise third with 20.5 per cent of the vote, followed by Symbian, which was trailing behind with 3.5 per cent of the vote. WebOS came in fifth, despite us neglecting to put it on the list in the first place, as users entered their own answer, and all but a handful voted for webOS. RIM was at the bottom of the tree, with a measly 1.7 per cent of the vote. While the top of the list reflects the Android sales figures we hear so much about, it also says a lot about RIM, if webOS, with such a lower penetration, can pip it to the post.
Look at this. Just look at it.
When we discovered the Hannah Montana OS we could scarcely believe our peepers. An unholy matrimony of everyone’s favourite open source desktop OS, Linux, and everyone’s least favourite Disney darling, we’re putting it out there as an open question: Who in their right mind would install this?
This is one for those in the US, so apologies to all our UK readers (unless you’ve managed to get hold of a Blackberry Torch and bring it back here that is). Another instalment of the Blackberry Torch OS has leaked, this time it’s the Blackberry Torch OS 6.0.0.214, with a download available online.
[via IntoMobile]
Found yourself shooing away Symbian in favour of the Apple iPhone’s iOS 4 and Android operating systems? Nokia’s out to change all that with its new MeeGo OS, which will be arriving in a flurry on Nokia devices later this year. It’s the future of Nokia devices. Step this way a glimpse of its first iteration in video action.
