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Samsung making Chrome OS desktop like Mac mini

updated 02:10 pm EDT, Wed May 11, 2011

Samsung Chrome OS desktop coming


Google during its I/O day two presentation revealed the very first non-notebook Chrome OS device. A Samsung-made mini desktop was unveiled that resembles a cross between a Mac mini and an iPhone 4. Very few details emerged, but the system was designed primarily for the workplace where users might want to drive larger displays, and it had just an SD card slot on the front.

Launch details and pricing weren't forthcoming for the desktop, though it will come sometime after the June 15 Chromebook launch.

The company has been increasingly leaning on the enterprise over home users to sell Chrome OS. It sees the web-based platform as taking care of many of the management and updating problems that plague the primarily Windows-based corporate world. Depending on the web browser also gives a chance for performance and features to improve automatically over time instead of the usual PC degradation.


By Electronista Staff

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  1. hayesk

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    05/11, 02:42pm | report spam | reply

    Larger than what?

    "Users might want to be able to drive larger displays." Larger than what?


  1. exca1ibur

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    05/11, 03:11pm | report spam | reply

    Aren't they being sued?

    Aren't they being sued for copying the iPhone? So now they go after the Mini? Doesn't make for a smart case, IMO.


  1. facebook_Timothy

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    05/11, 03:16pm | report spam | reply

    Larger than...

    ...the stock 15.x" notebook displays. Thought the article fails to mention just what connection(s) it has to drive an external monitor..DisplayPort?


  1. jdsonice@gmail.com

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    05/11, 03:42pm | report spam | reply

    So Sad!

    This is so so sad.

    I expect this nonsense from Samsung.

    But Goggle? That is a new low for them.

    Wow! How low will American companies go to make a buck.

    Google is soon going be another patent troll.


  1. c4rlob

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    05/11, 04:10pm | report spam | reply

    The new Microsoft

    And just like that, in one fateful keynote, Google has turned itself into the next Microsoft.

    It's like Microsoft and Google are obsessed with circling each other. Microsoft had Hotmail, Google jumps in with Gmail. Google had search, Microsoft jumps in with Bing. Microsoft outsources Windows hardware, Google outsources Chrome hardware. What's next? A Google pro-gaming console?


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  1. facebook_Timothy

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    05/11, 04:48pm | report spam | (1 reply) | reply

    Spin Doctor

    I like the way some are spinning this announcement with all the doom and gloom of a tech apocalypse. Listen up, ladies. The economy is in the p*** tank and China keeps churning out cheap c***. Somebody's gotta try experimenting with new ways to market the personal computer to an already sleepy American market, and guess what, it ain't gonna be Apple.

    Change is good. Competition is good. Innovation is good. Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. All can co-exist in a healthy economy for the good of the consumer.


  1. dwoodruff

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    05/11, 04:55pm | report spam | reply

    Hey Spin Doctor...

    This is neither experimentation nor change, it is mimicry, or to be more to the point just a knockoff. Is that really your idea of innovation?


  1. facebook_Timothy

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    05/11, 05:41pm | report spam | reply

    Reading is Hard

    Since reading comprehension seems to be lost on poor dwoodruff, let me say it another way...

    Innovation and imitation can co-exist. Choices are good. Fire is bad.

    Got that dwoodruff?


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