Acer Announces DX241H – First Chrome OS Device
Today Acer is said to have announced their plans to release the first ever Chrome OS powered device which is surprisingly a monitor (rather than the netbook we’ve all been expecting). It’s unsurprising though that Acer has been so quick to make this announcement as they have been agitating to be the first company on the market with a Chrome OS powered gizmo. The device will be called the DX241H and will go on sale latter on this year.
The ‘Specs’
The German website ‘Heise‘ revealed a few of the specifications of the monitor. They explain that the monitor will cost roughly €299. It will sport a 24-inch 16:9 display in the usual full-HD resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixel. It will also come with the expected HDMI and VGA connection and will sport stereo speakers. The DX241H will be on sale in Germany to begin with but it is unclear if Acer has plans to start selling in other countries.
The versatility of Chrome OS
This news comes as not only a big surprise but rather an eye opener as to the versatility of Google’s Chrome OS. Heise describes the DX241H as an ‘All-in-one PC’ which is indeed interesting; after-all isn’t that what Google TV is supposed to be? Already it seems as if Google’s 3 major platforms are heading for some nasty collisions. Android is already encroaching into the netbook market, and Chrome OS seems to be encroaching the TV/monitor market. It will be interesting to see how Google will draw the lines between all these great platforms.
UPDATE
As we mentioned earlier, this story was just breaking and we were still scrambling around to find the most up to date information. It seems like this device will not feature Chrome OS but rather the Chrome Browser. It is yet unclear how Acer plans to achieve this.
For a more in-depth discussion you may check out the comments below or visit the Chrome OS forums here.
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Wow, interesting interesting news.
I can read the 1000s of blog posts now – "Maybe Android won't replace Chrome OS right away", "Google takes on Microsoft in a big way with full screen exclamation mark"… and so forth!
Here we go Chrome OS Fans!
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This makes sense. Watch my videos: http://armdevices.net/2011/02/22/acer-dx241h-24-m…
There is an Acer 24" monitor on the market that has got a Freescale i.MX51 ARM Cortex-A8 processor in it. Freescale has shown in three of my videos http://armdevices.net/2010/05/27/im-testing-chrom… http://armdevices.net/2010/03/08/chromium-os-on-a…
that they can run Chrome OS on their ARM processor. Chrome OS will run on ARM Processors. This new Acer monitor may be slightly upgraded coming with the slightly faster i.MX53 processor, perhaps more RAM something like 1GB DDR2, and it may also simply come with a few USB host ports to connect keyboard and mouse. That's it. Chrome OS may get launched next week at CeBIT in Germany, it's one of the biggest consumer electronics tradeshows in the world, kind of bigger than CES, look on my site for videos of it.
The key is this, adding Chrome OS with WiFi/Ethernet to any Monitor just costs less than $50 using this type of ARM solution. It simply means that many Monitor makers will add Chrome OS to the monitor as a differentiating feature. This way, users that just want to browse the web, can instant boot into Chrome OS, and if they still want to have the option to resume into their Windows Desktop PC, they can also do that by simply clicking one button on the screen.
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The information is wrong. They will just use a Chrome Browser.
See here : http://www.golem.de/1102/81593.html
this news are wrong. there will not be a ChromeOS on that device.
please give us a source
Look at the "Heise" article you mention above. They corrected it already.
Thanks for that Jadziak. We will follow up on this soon. A couple of sites have called Acer and they have confirmed that this device will not run Chrome OS but rather the Chrome Browser. How they will do this is unclear…we'll see how this pans out.
Shame, would have been an amazingly smart move on acer's part, would rather see amd fusion then cortex tho- more power.
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