Acer says it will be the first PC maker to get a Chrome netbook on the market.
The news was announced in Chairman J.T. Wang's recent interview with Digitimes, in which the Chairman stated that he was "confident" Acer would be the first.
The announcement shouldn't be tremendously surprising – Acer is one of the only manufacturers with an Android netbook on the market, so it makes sense that it would use this partnership with Google to jump into the Chrome space ASAP. We should expect Acer's Chrome netbook by mid-2012.
The world's second-largest PC maker has designs on being the first to offer a Chrome OS Netbook. However, this new machine's hardware shouldn't just be more of the same – Google says new Chrome netbooks will have bigger keyboards and screens, SSDs, 802.11(n) Wi-Fi and x86 or ARM processors.
Via CNet.
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