Lenovo, Acer to launch Tegra smartbooks with Google's Chrome OS

From Shanzai -

Both Lenovo and Acer will probably launch Tegra-based smartbooks running Google's Chrome OS later this month. Nvidia's Tegra itself is due to make an appearance sometime soon and appears to have a won over Microsoft's Zune as well.

Given that mainland manufacturers have been using ARM processors for years in mobile phones and appear not to have any loyalty or affinity for a specific platform or OS, if the initial units sell well, we can expect a myriad of designs and colors by mid-2010.

Lenovo on the future of the netbook

TECH.BLORGE spoke to Lenovo’s Worldwide Competitive Analyst, Matt Kohut, about his vision of the future of netbooks, which involves Windows 7, bigger screens, built-in 3G, touch integration, and lower prices. Among his predictions are -

Windows 7 will be the dominant operating system on netbooks in the future partly due to its touch functionality.

Future netbooks will have distinguishing features such as integrated 3G and bigger screens as manufacturers try to push the price point higher. Netbooks will become larger, moving into the 12" segment.

Notebooks will not go away as Intel is trying very hard to limit what netbooks can do.

Lenovo to launch netbook by the end of September

From Digitimes -

Lenovo is reportedly planning to enter the netbook market by the end of September this year, with either existing subcontractors Compal, Wistron, or Pegatron as the OEM. Compal makes most of Lenovo's notebooks and have produced 1.1 million in Q2 this year alone. Wistron makes the X-series subnotebooks and have shipped an estimated 550,000 - 580,000 while Pegatron makes the IdeaPads and have shipped around 200,000.

Source article here.