Samsung's "Alex" Is A ChromeOS Netbook With Atom N550

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Friday, April 29th, 2011

We’ve been looking for ChromeOS to hit the shelves for a few months now and it looks like Samsung may be one of the first shops to pound out a small, COS netbook with a low-power processor. This mock-up describes a 1.5GHz machine with Atom N550 and 2GB RAM with a 1280 x 800 display. The stats come, from all places, a bug report from the Chromium Google Group.

No availability yet but, as Engadget notes, GoogleIO is right around the corner so maybe this thing will be the door prize.

via Eng