All the models presented in 2017 to be able to run Android apps, a feature that debuted last year to a few models.
The project Chrome OS had its debut in 2010 (though his presentation was the previous year). And then posed a simple idea: the vast majority of the tasks that a user of a conventional PC does on your computer has to do (or can be resolved) with the Web. So that the operating system Chrome OS, that’s what it was: a Chrome browser running on Linux, and nothing more. Has No applications, except a few basic built-in (a file manager, an image viewer, etc.); the rest resolved with Web sites that -if necessary – are available even if the computer is offline (Google Docs, for example). Simple, fast, frugal, periodic update, and without limits (a scheme later adopted by Microsoft for Windows 10).
This design allowed the company to offer hardware in modest, low cost and minimum maintenance: Chrome is updated every so often, and already. To the middle of last year, however, the company changed its strategy and announced another thing: that all applications of Android would come, finally, to Chrome OS. The original design was kept -the Chrome browser for everything – but now was added the possibility of installing 2 million applications on these computers.
To take advantage of it in full, however, this would require a change in the hardware: that the chromebooks (as known to the laptops with Chrome OS) to use touch screens, because the applications Android the taken-for-granted (beyond the work of alternatives such as Remix OS, a Android adapted to the PC ). The first chromebook with a touch screen was the Pixel of 2015 , but then that screen didn’t make much sense. But now Google says that all the chromebooks introduced this year will be compatible with Android applications.
it will Also be compatible with a large number of previous models, which mostly do not have a touch screen (which limits its appeal), but that allow you to add volume and users. It simply requires that the team use the version 53 of the operating system.
Among the teams that were in the CES 2017 are models that deviate from the price traditional that hovered around $ 300, with devices that are more sophisticated, such as the Samsung Chromebook Pro and Plus, which have touch screens of 12.3 inches (2400 x 1600 pixels), pencil to write on screen, 4 GB of RAM, two USB ports-C and 1.1 kg of weight, in addition to 8 hours of battery life; the difference between the two models is the processor (a chip ARM in a case, a Intel Core M3 in the other) and the price: $ 450 base.
Also, the Asus Chromebook C302CA, that has a Full HD touch screen of 12.5 inches, 4 or 8 GB of RAM, chip Intel Core M, between 32 and 128 GB of internal storage, two USB ports-C and 1.2 kg weight, in addition to a price close to $ 500.
modest is the Acer Chromebook 11 N7, designed for industrial use, with a housing resistant to shocks, falls and liquid, and a hardware with a screen of 11.6 inches (1366 x 768 pixels), 4 GB RAM, chip is Celeron dual-core, and 12 hours of battery life. Its base price is 230 dollars in the U.S.
Google bet, especially for the educational market, where these computers are attractive for the price, versatility and low-maintenance; with an outline similar to but less organized that the project conectar igualdad, in the united States it is not unusual for secondary schools and especially the universities, to give computers to its students, a segment in which Apple also has a strong presence with the iPad.
But Google is also beginning to expand their presence to other market segments; in 2016, was the second most popular operating system -by volume – in the united States, precisely because of the cost of the equipment; this will serve as a spearhead to take away market notebooks economic with Windows 10, and begin to build a base for the next few years.
And posed Chrome OS+Android as an intermediate alternative between the ideas of Microsoft (a single operating system, Windows 10, for all devices, regardless of whether it is a notebook, a tablet or -if necessary – a smartphone) and the Apple (iOS and MacOS, an operating system for each device class, though some uses overlap, as the iPad Pro and a MacBook); in between, it broadcasts Android among young americans, and with good reason: according to a study in 2016 of the consulting firm Piper Jaffray (which is repeated every half year) 69 percent of u.s. teens have an iPhone.
According to him, said Hiroshi Lockheimer, the executive in charge of development, to the Telegraph English complete fusion between Android, and Chrome OS is, for now, ruled out; but beyond how to work both operating systems behind the scenes, yes, there is an intention to complement and bring both user experiences: the Chrome OS, on a big screen, and the Android, on a small screen.
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