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Acer’s chairman JT Wang expressed confidently this past week that Acer will be the first company to launch a Google Chrome OS Netbbook. It has been revealed that the Taiwanese computer manufacturer has been working on this project since the middle of 2009. The release date for the Acer Chrome OS Netbook is expected to be around the second half of 2010. Google themself had announced that they expected Chrome OS computer to show up in the second part of 2010.

While such claims can interpreted as rash and arrogant, we musn’t forget the company that we’re dealing with here. Acer is the second largest PC manufacturer in the world, and the largest manufacturer of laptops. You will also remember that Acer were the first major vendor to release a Netbook based on Google’s other operating system, Google Android (it was able to dual boot either into Windows or Android). The Acer Android Netbook wasn’t all that succesful but you can understand their motivation for wanting to find an alternate to the highly expensive cost of Microsoft Windows, especially in context of a relatively cheap netbook.

Acer and Chrome OS are in fact a match made in heaven and it would be surprising if this connection didn’t work this time around. Acer brings to the table top tier technology at bargain prices. Including a free operating software such as Chrome OS will drive prices even lower, and result in Acer’s competitors re-evaluating whether Microsoft Windows really is necessary. In turn, this type of dilemma and second doubting is exactly what Google wanted to create by introducing an operating system onto the marketplace.

While many critics claim that users of Chrome OS will be limited to those light users who only perform the most basic tasks, the ease of use and practicality of a super efficient computer might take precedence over the aspects. Sure it’s nice to have so much power and functionality with a Microsoft running Laptop. However, if you think about the startup times, boot times, software problems, driver problems, lack of disk space, external storage devices, and all the other problems that come with such a system…then it doesn’t become too difficult to see that perhaps a super cheap, lightning quick, and overwhelmingly easy user interface and usage experience of a Acer Chrome OS partnership is something that many people could want.

Be on the lookout for more news and information about the Google Chrome OS running Acer Netbook Computer.