After months of announcing its intent, Google announced the arrival of Netbook computers (with solid state drives) entering the market for the holiday season 2010 (around Sep – Oct 2010) with OEMs Acer and HP.
Sundar Pichai the Engineering manager for Chrome OS talked of 7 seconds boot time and 3 seconds login time, giving these PCS an experience that is more like TV viewing.
Targeted at “always on” users (with extensive browsing, social networking (Mail, IM, Facebook, Orkut) who primarily need only a browser Chrome OS can be a big hit though not for all segments of users.
The year 2010 PC market will be interesting to watch; hopefully cloud computing will be real by then
Tags: Chrome OS for PCs, Gogle Chrome OS
