Acer to be first with a Chrome OS netbook?
updated 07:45 am EST, Wed December 2, 2009
Acer Chrome OS portable due 2H 2010
Industry tips on Wednesday suggested Acer will be one of the earliest companies to produce a finished computer based on Chrome OS. The company has reportedly been working on a netbook design since mid-2009, or when the Google platform was first announced, and expects to ship it in the second half of 2010. The DigiTimes source isn't confirmed but corroborates Acer chief JT Wang's own belief that his company will be the first to ship a Chrome OS computer.
The Taiwan system builder was one of the first to embrace a Google OS and released an Aspire One with Android in October. While not strongly received as it used a pre-2.0 release that couldn't recognize high resolutions and was limited in its apps, the software gave Acer may have encouraged Acer to develop future netbooks that don't depend on Windows.
