Sony is tipped to be one of the first vendors to launch a Chrome OS notebook and planning to launch a PlayStation tablet, dual-screen clamshell and sliding PC as well as a Chrome OS notebook and VAIO Hybrid PC.Chrome OS is Google’s own Cr-48 reference design with roughly the same dimensions and Sony Hybrid PC is supposed to be thin-and-light and incorporates a Core i7 notebook and delivers up to 16.5 hours of battery life.
The operatings system titled Google Chrome OS has already been dispensed to over 60,000 people as a part of a beta testing program in the past few months.Google has also announced recently that with partners Acer and Samsung will be launching the first Chrome OS notebooks/netbooks for consumers this Summer. After that initial release Google states other makers will be releasing notebooks.Hopefully as a part of the other notebook makers that will be coming shortly after the Summer releases by Acer and Samsung, Sony will be launching a Chrome OS ultra-portable laptop of their own.Sony is currently working on such a notebook for future release. Going by the info released by SI this new notebook will be powered by an ARM based dual-core processor, feature 8 hours of battery life and weight a little over 2 pounds.At the moment SI is being led to believe that this new ARM processor based Chrome OS notebook from Sony will be launched this Summer.
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