Apparently Google’s CR-48 won’t be the only ChromeBook around anymore. We’ve heard about rumours of Samsung developing netbooks running on Chrome OS, and now Google has made it official on stage at their second day of Google I/O event. Well, Samsung won’t be the only one as Acer is also said to be one of the ChromeBook supplier. Samsung’s ChromeBook will be the 5 Series 12-inch netbook.

Anyway, it seemed that Google has standardized the ChromeBook specs for all manufacturers. For now, those netbooks running on Chrome OS will have a dual-core 1.66GHz Intel Atom N570 processor, an “all-day” battery which Google says will provide 8.5 hours of continuous usage.

Samsung’s particular clamshell will have a 12.1-inch, 1280 x 800, 300 nit screen, weigh 3.26 pounds and come with dual-band 802.11 WiFi, optional global 3G, two USB 2.0 ports, an 1.3-Megapixel HD webcam and a clickable trackpad that Google tells us has thankfully been revamped since the CR-48.

Amazon has listed additional specs for this Samsung notebook. There’s a 16GB mSATA solid state drive here, as well as an SDXC card reader, and VGA-out via an “optional” dongle. The press release also mentions a Li-ion battery good for 1,000 recharge cycles, though it doesn’t mention what efficiency will be like after that.

You’ll be able to order one from Amazon or Best Buy beginning June 15th. It’ll cost $429 for the WiFi version and $499 for worldwide 3G — which includes 100MB of free Verizon data per month, just like the CR-48.

SOURCE via Google