Hardware Manufacturers Teaming Up With Chrome OS

By Digital Trends Staff Published October 25, 2009

Google has made public the names of computer manufacturers that have agreed to make machines that will run its forthcoming Chrome operating system.

Chrome OS – at least at first – will be designed to work with the smaller netbooks, and Acer, Asus, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, and Toshiba have already signed up.

Recommended Videos

Chrome should debut in the second half of 2010, with the code open sourced later this year. The software will, of course, be free.

Chrome is set to work with both Intel and Arm chips, and Texas Instruments and Qualcomm, both of whom make devices using Arm chips, have also signed onto the project.

So, too, has a software maker, Adobe, which make Flash software.

Digital Trends Staff

Digital Trends has a simple mission: to help readers easily understand how tech affects the way they live. We are your…

Gaming

Apple could tie up with Sony for a critical Vision Pro upgrade

A man wears an Apple Vision Pro headset.

Apple hasn’t quite tasted the domain-shifting success it expected with the Vision Pro headset. A price tag worth $3,500 was already a deterrent, but the gaming ecosystem — a key driver for the VR segment — has also been lackluster. The company is now hoping to fix that situation with some help from Sony.

According to Bloomberg, the two companies have been working together to bring support for the PlayStation VR 2’s controllers to the pricey Apple headset. “Apple has discussed the plan with third-party developers, asking them if they’d integrate support into their games,” adds the report.

Computing

Black Friday’s best PC hardware deal is still live, and you’re sleeping on it

The Ryzen 5 7600X sitting among thermal paste and RAM.

I'm not mad, just disappointed. A couple of weeks ago, I covered the insane deal that essentially allowed you to score a Ryzen 5 7600X -- still one of the best processors you can buy -- for just $105. At the time, I thought, surely, this will sell out in a matter of hours. Who would pass up on a deal this good? And yet, two weeks later to the day, the craziest deal I've seen during all of Black Friday and Cyber Monday is still live on Newegg.

Let me break down the deal again. You can get the Ryzen 5 7600X for $225, which is not a good price. However, you can get an additional $30 off by using promo code DLCDZ342, bringing the price down to $195. The kicker is that you also get a free Team Group MP44L 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD. That's a $90 hard drive that Newegg is just throwing in with a CPU that's already available for a decent price. The fact that the deal is still live suggests either Newegg has a ton of inventory, or not enough people know about this sale.

Editors’ Recommendations