Samsung prices up Chrome OS netbook for Blighty
3G and Wi-Fi-only versions inbound
Twelve-inch Chrome OS netbook, anyone? Samsung will be bringing just such a machine to the UK late next month for £349.
The Series 5 - the sound you hear in the background is Psion fans tut-tutting - runs the other Google operating system on a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N570 dual-core CPU. There's 2GB of DDR3 and a 16GB SSD on board.
The capacity is low because the Series 5 is designed to run web apps.
The display is 1280 x 800, and the laptop has Wi-Fi, a pair of USB 2.0 ports, a memory card reader and a 61Wh battery built into its 20mm-thick body.
It boots in ten seconds, Samsung claimed, and comes out of sleep in one second.
Pay an extra £50 and you can get a version with built-in 3G connectivity when the Series 5 goes on sale on 24 June. More details on Samsung's US website. ®
COMMENTS
83% of the internet is taller at one side than the other
Is the interface really all skewed, or is that just the laziest "let's just mock up the interface in Photoshop" press image ever?
@Neill Mitchell
Is is a rip off no matter how you quibble about it. N570 based netbooks sell for around £280 including the Windows tax.
But why would you?
If this was £150 quid then sure it would be a no-brainer.
But at £349 you've got enough for a decent netbook with all the functionality of this machine PLUS a generous hard drive too. Plus windows (and ubuntu free as well)
So who would buy this?
350 quid?
For a bloody web browser appliance? Someone's having a giraffe.
An extra 50 quid to make it actually usable on the move (the usual reason for the form factor)? They're going for the full bloody herd here.......
