Lenovo, Acer, Nvidia with a little Google On top.

Posted on 01 September 2009, Last updated on 12 November 2019 by

Warning. This is another ‘our reliable sources’ story!

Shanzai.com, a website dedicated to tracking China’s tech industry, is reporting that Lenovo, and Acer will launch products based on the Nvidia Tegra platform and running Google Chrome OS.

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If it’s true it means that Google OS is months ahead of schedule. Previous Google said that we wouldn’t see devices until 2010.

Apart from those ‘reliable sources’ and a few very strange looking pics that were purported to be Google OS, there’s nothing much to go on here.

Thin and light mini notebooks will come soon, I have no doubt, but there’s a huge question mark hanging over the choice of OS. Linux looks to be the big winner here but what flavor it will have is anybody’s guess.

Exclusive: Lenovo and Acer to launch Tegra devices with Google’s Chrome OS

Got any thoughts on this one?

3 Comments For This Post

  1. tino says:

    I just want to point out the irony that Shanzai means “bootleg/ripoff” in Chinese. Heh.

  2. chappy says:

    I think they are going for a wordplay with “xianzai” – or “now”. It’s just that no one can pronounce “xi” in Chinese Pinyin without having some exposure to the language.

    I wonder if the Chrome OS will track your every move to optimize spamming to you like the Chrome browser does. :)

  3. FloridaSEO says:

    HAHA! Google will know where you were and when you weren’t!

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