Google demonstrated Tuesday, the first laptop computers to use its Chrome web browser, in a challenge to Microsoft Windows.
With Chrome, computers boot-up quickly, in seconds, and are centered mainly on running web based apps rather than software as in the past. So the devices have limited capacity when off line.
To help keep you online, Google is working with Verizon Wireless to offer free Internet use for up to 100MB of data every month for two years. Users could also sign up for more data with plans starting at $9.99 a month, it said.
The first laptops running the Chrome OS will be delivered mid-2011 by Acer and Samsung, Google announced and other manufacturers are also building the devices, according to the Wall Street Journal.
In the meantime, Google will launch a pilot program to give notebooks running Chrome to certain users, developers, schools and businesses so it can continue to refine the OS.
Like Android, Chrome is licensed to manufacturers for free while Microsoft charges a licensing fee for Windows.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
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