We still don’t have Australian launch dates for Google’s officially-licensed Chromebooks. However, if you’re happy to settle for a device based on the Chromium open source project rather than the Google-sanctioned version, Kogan is listing a 12-inch screen model which is set to ship on June 7, a week ahead of the official overseas Chromebook release.
Priced at $349 plus delivery, the device sports a 1.3GHz Celeron processor, 30GB SSD and 1GB of RAM. There’s also built-in Bluetooth, a webcam and a 3-in-1 card reader. Unusually compared to recent Kogan releases, the pricing is fixed, with no LivePrice bargain for early purchasers.
Tempted? Traumatised? Tell us all in the comments.
Lauren
Friday, June 3, 2011 at 11:50 AM$349 is really cheap… But only 1 GB RAM? seriously?
Not worth it.
Ben
Friday, June 3, 2011 at 12:36 PMIf it has 2 or more USB ports and a Ethernet port then it might just be worth it as a secondary netbook.
Kire
Friday, June 3, 2011 at 1:34 PMPrice is fixed, but specs may change.
He’s done it before.
Chris
Friday, June 3, 2011 at 2:18 PMDear mother of… why on Earth is he putting a Celeron in it!?
Andrew
Friday, June 3, 2011 at 2:36 PMIt has 1GB of RAM and Celeron processor because it is Chrome OS and not Windows ;)
Chris
Friday, June 3, 2011 at 2:50 PMI don’t care if it’s running bareMetal, having a next-to-zero sized CPU cache is just plain horrible.
Anthony
Friday, June 3, 2011 at 3:37 PMIt’s a bit of an odd duck, and the Celeron is only one of the things that is weird.
* 1.5kg is heavier than my 10″ Netbook
* 3.5hrs is less than 1/2 the runtime I get from my Eee 1005pe
* No Builtin 3G for an OS where all your apps are online! So it essentially turns in to a brick every time you take it out of the house.
* Finally, it runs a Celeron M, where Chrome OS is supposed to run great on ARM.
In short, this doesn’t look like a Netbook designed for Chrome OS at all, it looks like a Windows machine with Chrome OS added as a (lazy) afterthought. It’s totally unsuitable
Ian
Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 12:35 PMI’m disappointed in how excited I got when I saw the title. False advertising.