Official: Samsung reveals Chrome OS laptop -- the Series 5

Official: Samsung reveals Chrome OS laptop -- the Series 5

Rumors told us what, back and alike how abundant to expect, but Google aloof fabricated it official on date -- Chrome OS netbooks are assuredly here, and Samsung is arch the way with a ultra-slim 0.79-inch attenuate machine. This is the Samsung Series 5 ChromeBook, which plays to Google's fresh accepted "Chromebook" blueprint --in abbreviate agency they'll anniversary appear with a dual-core Intel Atom processor and an "all-day" battery, which Google says will accommodate 8.5 hours of connected acceptance here. Samsung's accurate clamshell will accept a 12.1-inch, 1280 x 800, 300 nit screen, counterbalance 3.26 pounds and appear with dual-band 802.11 WiFi, alternative all-around 3G, two USB 2.0 ports, an HD webcam and a clickable trackpad that Google tells us has thankfully been revamped back the CR-48. You'll be able to adjustment one from Amazon or Best Buy alpha June 15th. It'll amount $429 for the WiFi adaptation and $499 for common 3G -- which includes 100MB of chargeless Verizon abstracts per month, aloof like the CR-48. PR afterwards the break.

Update: Amazon's Series 5 advertisement capacity some added specs -- we're attractive at a dual-core 1.66GHz Intel Atom N570 chip, a 1 megapixel webcam, and a 16GB mSATA solid accompaniment drive here, as able-bodied as an SDXC agenda reader, and VGA-out via an "optional" dongle. The columnist absolution additionally mentions a Li-ion array acceptable for 1,000 recharge cycles, admitting it doesn't acknowledgment what ability will be like afterwards that.