Thursday, June 16, 2011

Samsung Series 5 Chromebook Teardown Reveals Spartan, Efficient Design

By Clint Boulton, eWeek

Talk of Google Chromebooks rose to a fever pitch in May following their introduction at Google I/O, with Samsung and Acer planning to sell notebooks based on the Chrome operating system starting June 15 through Amazon.com and Best Buy online. Chromebooks, which boot up in 8 seconds simply by lifting the lid, include a file system that supports documents and a media player for video and music. It also provides integration with Picasa to let users manage their photos on Chrome computers. Recently iFixit tore down the Samsung Series 5 3G Chromebook, which eWEEK saw first hand, to discover what was under the hood of these speedy, Web surfing devices.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Samsung-Series-5-Chromebook-Teardown-Reveals-Spartan-Efficient-Design-314084/?kc=rss

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