Google names Chrome OS compatriots, Dell noticeably absent

Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments -- according to the latest Chrome OS update from Google, you're looking at the company's initial ragtag team of co-conspirators for its entry into the operating system business. With Adobe's involvement, we can assume Flash support is a given, and the others unsurprisingly run the gamut of netbook and smartbook players. We can't help but notice a couple of conspicuous absences on that list, including Intel and Dell. With Intel, you don't need to partner to work on its chips, but we gotta imagine it'd help by offering more support, and as for Dell, we don't know about that one, but there's still plenty of time for the Big G to enlist more companies in the lead up to its second half 2010 debut.

Update: Google updated the list to include Toshiba.

[majortom1981 Posted Jul 8th 2009 8:58PM]

I think dell is missing ebcause they dont want to move around rescources to dedicate to the new OS. Windows and Linux is enough.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2009 10:15PM]

This is Linux(ish)

[M Posted Jul 8th 2009 9:02PM]

ENGADGET check this out:

http://ec.mashable.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/chromecartoon.jpg

[tylersmyler Posted Jul 8th 2009 9:11PM]

ha ha

[nicksilvestri Posted Jul 8th 2009 9:07PM]

What's Texas Instruments going to do?!

[looselycoupled Posted Jul 9th 2009 4:55AM]

Going to provide OMAP3/4 chips in netbooks/smartbooks. OMAP3 is a bit weak for a netbook, but a dual-core 1.0+ Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 with quad-core PowerVR SGX543 GPU, and 1080P processing chip wouldn't be too bad!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2009 9:11PM]

I would have thought sony's vaio laptop's would come with chrome Os, because i don't think they're too happy using windows.

[KyleHase Posted Jul 8th 2009 9:32PM]

You must be joking. Sony loves Windows. Many other makers, including Dell, offer GNU/Linux but Sony PCs use Windows exclusively.

[Shootingblue Posted Jul 8th 2009 9:15PM]

Maybe this will be able to put together a comprehendable sentence.

[jordanbiffle Posted Jul 8th 2009 9:33PM]

How is Apple letting Eric get away with this? I mean, I would have thrown Eric's ass off the board ASAP.

Apple, remember Pirates of Silicon Valley? Apparently you didn't learn the first time around when Microsoft did this.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2009 10:28PM]

Google have Android which competes with iPhone and that's not really upset Apple.
And this is aiming to take over a sector Apple have no PC's in so I don't think they particularly care until they want to make their own netbook, but I don't think Apple want to.

[cookieofdoom Posted Jul 8th 2009 9:36PM]

Microsoft doesn't need to be afraid of this, but they will need to fight it. Windows 7 is going to be loaded on Netbooks by the time Chrome OS comes out. Chomre has the potential to take a way a good portion of their market share specifically in the netbook arena. I'd expect to see them release a new browser, service pack, or web app suite sometime next Summer to combat Google.

The best thing Linux users can hope for out of this is better hardware support. I don't think this will have an effect on software support, except to pull everything more toward cloud computing. I don't really like that concept, but if wireless internet becomes cheaper, faster, and more reliable I think I could cope.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2009 9:42PM]

This is the end of apple as we know it. An OS streamlined to run the adobe suite faster than mac on PC hardware. If Apple does not stop pissing adobe off with programs like aperture, the only real benefit of their hardware is to say (with lisp and wrist hanging) "but it's soooo sexy".

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2009 9:46PM]

If ADOBE is in the group, that mean the OS will be a real serious competitor. Just need few apps to follow, like 3d and propellerhead stuff and voila! Mac and Windows will loose some market shares.

[Xoy Posted Jul 8th 2009 10:26PM]

Nope that wont make them a major competitor; figure out how to sync an Ipod with it will make them a serious competitor

[bebop Posted Jul 8th 2009 9:52PM]

I'm all for this web-centric OS for browsing and email, and online document editing, but how about driver support? What hope of this ever working with a Canon photo printer or Wacom tablet?

[Shootingblue Posted Jul 8th 2009 10:15PM]

I agree. That is one of the reasons I had to give up on linux.

[Fanfoot Posted Jul 8th 2009 10:47PM]

That'll be the challenge. All the stuff that makes Linux problematic. Driver support for that Windows only Verizon 3G USB stick. Printer drivers. Support for DRM laden content. Playback of Blu-Ray movies. Subscription music services. Playback of Windows media files. Integration with your portable music player, your camera, your cell phone.

[GadgetTamer Posted Jul 8th 2009 10:04PM]

Hopefully you're right there

[Fanfoot Posted Jul 8th 2009 10:25PM]

Dude, if u think Adobe is going to put their photo or video suites on this thing any time soon you're smoking crack. Adobe is involved to bring in Flash support and maybe Air as an alternative to Gears. Not the stuff you're dreaming about.

[enhuman Posted Jul 8th 2009 10:32PM]

No, blue-eyed HAL, you can not have all of my personal data and make ad dollars off of it.

Let's have a release and take a look at it. Or will this be in beta for 5+ years also?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2009 10:44PM]

If it's anything like Chrome's release, no. They quickly moved that out the beta so they could ship it to OEM's, so they'll want this without beta moniker too, even if they end up with a fair bit of patching post release.

[Spunky Monkey 190906 Posted Jul 8th 2009 10:49PM]

Poor dell, once again hit with the neglection hammer

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2009 11:06PM]

Riiiight just llke android is not an OS. Now we have an OS but only for "netbooks". Apple can't handle success and the bubble's set to burst 2010.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2009 11:37PM]

Chrome will fail for one reason: DirectX. Not being able to simply load games and play them will turn alot of people off. Besides, my Eee runs XP just fine. iPhone OS is as Linux-based as I want. One of the reasons Apple built in Boot Camp was so users could play games built for DirectX...

[Darknezz22 Posted Oct 3rd 2009 12:12AM]

This OS is designed specifically for netbooks. And as netbooks currently stand they are in no way designed for any true game....kind of missing a cd rom drive..video ram, decent processer...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 8th 2009 11:44PM]

You know who else is missing? Any hardware vendor involved in graphics, or USB, or sound, or printers, or you know... anything that needs drivers for an OS that can't live as a parasite on a underlying OS (you know, like Chrome lives on Windows)

[google123 Posted Jul 9th 2009 12:22AM]

Intel and Dell are absent because Intel and Dell are belong to Microsoft

[marjancek Posted Jul 9th 2009 12:46AM]

Don't foget DELL hast it's own isntant-on Linux!

[nohcho Posted Jul 9th 2009 1:32AM]

I thought everything was moving to the "Cloud" and operating systems would become irrelevant. What happened to that. I never believed in the Cloud,. This is a further proof that operating systems are here to stay little longer.

[liamf555 Posted Jul 9th 2009 3:04AM]

The fact that you think that this is the end for Apple is truly hilarious.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2009 3:24AM]

Anyone notice that in the original link (Google Chrome Blog) is TOSHIBA too?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2009 6:02AM]

Anyone notice the 'Apple' like like reflection top left of their logo. Ooooo what does it mean. What hmmm what?

[hacp Posted Jul 9th 2009 3:58AM]

Forget Dell.What about crunchpad? This OS seems to be perfect for the crunchpad.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2009 5:32AM]

Isnt that logo from that silly light game everyone was playing years ago?..I cant remember what its called because of all the Diprivan I have been using.

[Chinito77 Posted Jul 9th 2009 6:15AM]

The Samus/Metroid ball as the OS logo?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2009 6:40AM]

No im telling you its SIMON
http://www.handheldmuseum.com/MB/Simon.htm

[Flix C Posted Jul 9th 2009 9:39AM]

Flash is pure Evil.

[FaithTek Posted Jul 9th 2009 9:42AM]

Dell is going the Android route -- which is still Google... :) And Google Chrome OS will most likely be the First Cloud Computing OS.

[magallanes Posted Jul 9th 2009 9:54AM]

Freescale, Texas Instrument,Qualcomm.. ok, i get it :not for desktop!.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2009 1:06PM]

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I think it's great news. I think it is stupid to exclude and I don't think it is exclusion.

I will be using Dell and Google OS. And Windows. And Ubuntu. And MAC OS.

I think the system will be great. It will be open, so Dell and Intel can use it.

Windows will loose. Great news.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2009 3:41PM]

From the looks of the list, Google's China R&D has done their job.

China's the big playa now. Suck up to your new google-asian overloads.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 9th 2009 4:06PM]

Without being able to run WIndows apps, its going to turn into yet another linux distro... why couldent google buy out/subsidize ReactOS and create a real contender to the throne.

[Wwhat Posted Jul 9th 2009 8:10PM]

What use is an 'OS; that runs windows apps? That would be windows not a new OS, or it would be a new shell for windows, that's not a bad idea though, windows allows replacing explorer.exe with something else and google could hack something like that together (simultaneously with their chrome OS project).

It's bizarre how many people don't seem to know what an OS is, even people that should know because they work in the technology field.

[Wwhat Posted Jul 9th 2009 8:06PM]

Aren't adobe and apple joined at the hip?