The Chromebook, Google’s new bet!

The Californian search engine is soon going to launch notebooks equipped with its operating system Chrome. Google is planning to launch them on the 15th of June.

These computers will be produced by Samsung and Acer and should be sold online at the price $349. They will first be released in the United States, in France, in Great Britain, in Germany, in Italy, in Spain and in the Netherlands.

With these “Chromebook”, Google clearly wants to walk on Microsoft’s territory.

Thanks to these new computers optimized for Internet, Samsung and Acer will get a chance to penetrate a market that has been dominated for years by Microsoft and Apple.

For the last two years, Google has presented Chrome as a valuable alternative to Windows and really expects consumers to follow. It is not the first time that we hear such noises but the release of these laptops has been repeatedly postponed to make sure that the quality of the products will meet Google’s expectations.

Although Chrome is free, Google expects that it will help increasing its activities of online advertising by facilitating Internet access to its users. By attracting in much quicker way its users online, Google bets that they will be connected more often and therefore launch more “searches”.

Consumers and Google followers will probably welcome these new notebooks, as it will increase the competition and lower the prices. We still have to wait to see if the sales go well at the beginning but we are convinced that its competitors will soon raise a few concerns about data protection.

Surkld will announce the release a bit before and update you if any relevant information is published.

Meanwhile, have a look at this video made by Google presenting the Chromebook:

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