Google wants everyone to use their browser and what better way to do that than to provide low-cost bare-bones smartbook or netbook technology pre-installed with Chrome OS? Google may look into advertising to cover the losses they may have to take for providing these smartbooks and netbooks, but they also just acquired Teracent, a company that specializes in personalized display advertising.
The Chrome OS is free and most data is stored in the cloud anyway, so this situation would be quite feasible for Google. $20 per unit may seem a bit low, but you never know what'll happen. Think Google will give out free smartbooks and netbooks? It could happen.
Via I4U.
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