News - HP launches 14-inch Pavilion Chromebook

[HEXUS]

Available in the USA today for $329.99.

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[Brewster0101]

Lack of USB 3.0 is odd. Chrome OS still needs something to get traction.

[scaryjim]

I've got Chromium OS running in a VM and I have to say for a day-to-day OS I quite like it. If it got traction I could see a lot of developers moving over to HTML5 as a dev platform, since you can also write MetroModern UI apps in HTML5. The real problem at the minute is the spotty app support. If they can get that sorted - and perhaps introduce some more models priced at the Acer end of the market (perhaps using cheaper ARM processors) then they could definitely make an impact.

As to USB 3, I think that's a limitation of the low end Celeron platform: Samsung's Exynos-based offering has USB 3...

[bobharvey]

Still with the 1366 x 768 nonsense. Has someone imported a couple of billion of these from the Andromeda galaxy or something? there has to be some reason they insult our intelligence like this.

I'd really, really, like one of these if it only had a screen fit for the 21st century.