Images of Acer's second-generation Chromebook have reportedly been leaked online. Spanish tech blog Minimachines purports to show the device, dubbed the AC710 although doesn't provide any details beyond this.
If you're an avid user of Google's note taking web-app 'Scratchpad' you'll want to jot the following down: development on it is stopping. The application, which comes pre-installed on ChromeOS, is a popular "jot pad" for ideas, especially since it works offline and syncs back to the cloud when connection is resumed.
The newly-launched Samsung Chromebook Series 3 - aka 'the ARM one' - may be new to the market, but Google are already pimping an after-market case for it. The 'Booq Viper Hardcase 11" for Chromebook' is listed on the US Google Play Store alongside the Samsung Series 3 under 'accessories'.
Of the several new apps being primed for ChromeOS its the 'Camera' one that intrigued me the most. Although it has been installed by default in the developer channel of Chrome OS it has only recently been made to 'work'. I decided to have a quick poke around to see what it can do...
Google have today (October 18th) announced the availability of a new $249 Chromebook. The device is powered by an ARM processor, one of the key enablers of the lower-than-usual price.
Future ChromeOS devices will ship with vendor-specific default wallpapers.
Thought Chromebooks were dead? Think again. Acer are reported to be prepping a second-generation Chromebook for release in mid-October, based on news given to Taiwanese hardware blog DigiTimes.
When the Chromebox was unveiled earlier this year the pretty promo pictures showed off the device with a mouse and custom-Chrome keyboard set. The custom Chrome keyboard took a while to materialise, but the mouse has taken even longer to wriggle out of its hiding place...
Is news of new cursors (the icon that moves on your screen when you use a mouse or trackpad) the most exciting of changes? Probably not, but since we try to cover every facet of Chrome OS, from the big to the small, it's worth us pointing out that over 20 new cursor icons are set to arrive in the OS in the coming weeks.