Samsung’s Series 5 Chromebook hit the shelves Wednesday, selling for $500 for a 3G version and $430 for a WiFi-only model. A teardown performed by IHS iSuppli senior analyst Wayne Lam found that the Series 5 Chromebook has hardware attributes commonly found in a full-featured notebook. The Chromebook Series 5 is “an interesting device because it’s priced like a netbook, but if you look at the construct, it somewhat resembles what Apple’s trying to do with the MacBook Air,” Lam told TechNewsWorld.
These ChromeBooks will die sooner then the Netbooks did. But not before some Geeks line up to be one of the first to buy one. It's a interesting ideal but it relies too much on a connection and locks you into Google's eco system for the most part. What is the resale going to be on something like this? I mean , no hard drive, no way to really use another OS, Its just a throw away laptop. It would be a decent ideal for someone who wants to be tied to Google, but not at the prices for the ChromeBooks. If they were $350 or less I could see them being worth taking a chance on.
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Chromebook: Big Brother to Netbook, Distant 3rd Cousin to Tablet
Posted by: Richard Adhikari June 15, 2011 11:45 AMSamsung’s Series 5 Chromebook hit the shelves Wednesday, selling for $500 for a 3G version and $430 for a WiFi-only model. A teardown performed by IHS iSuppli senior analyst Wayne Lam found that the Series 5 Chromebook has hardware attributes commonly found in a full-featured notebook. The Chromebook Series 5 is “an interesting device because it’s priced like a netbook, but if you look at the construct, it somewhat resembles what Apple’s trying to do with the MacBook Air,” Lam told TechNewsWorld.