Gadgetory

today at Google i/o the chrome team unveiled the first shipping Chrome OS notebooks the Acer Chromebook and the samsung series 5 let's begin with the series 5 which features a 12.1 inch display with a resolution of 1280 by 800 a new dual core intel atom cpu which is a crate boost over the cr-48 eight and a half hours of battery life the HD webcam along with a pair of USB ports and a memory card slot in addition to the nice improvement in CPU the series 5 also has a full-size keyboard and a revamp full-size try pack which is great unfortunately all this comes at a hefty price of 429 dollars for a Wi-Fi only model or four hundred ninety nine dollars for a 3g model next we have the acer chromebook it shares many key specs with the series 5 but with a smaller 11.6 inch display six hours of battery life and an hdmi port instead of minis vga a great feature that both netbooks will have is a built-in jailbreaking mode that will allow you to install anything you like on your computer including another operating system if you ever get tired of Chrome OS the design certainly is quite a bit more plain than the Samsung however it makes up for that in a very important area price the Acer Chromebook comes in at a more reasonable 349 dollars for Wi-Fi and will have 3g as an option although the price is yet to be announced for that overall I like what I see as a cr-48 owner there's a lot to like about Chrome OS but several of the key problems namely speed and the trackpad have been remedied with these new Chromebooks my biggest problem is price as I think that they still may be a bit too expensive for many people so what do you think be sure to leave your thoughts in the comments below