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Looks like Acer might actually pull off what they set out to do in the first place with Google’s Chrome OS. They wanted to be the first out the gate and if the reports are true, they are actually going to make it. And the moment of revelation will come soon because word is that they are going to unveil their Chrome OS product at this year’s Computex, which will start with the start of the next month.

Google did say that the second half of this year would see the proper, hardware launch of Chrome OS and it seems like that promise will be met with room to spare. If Acer does introduce a Chrome OS device at Computex this year, we will get to see the Chrome OS in real action as soon as June 1st — the day Computex starts.

Computex, of course, is a pretty nice event to show off your latest OS and your latest hardware at. So Acer won’t just be putting it out there without anyone to look at it. But there remains one very important question — what will Acer be bringing out at Computex?

The obvious reply would be a netbook. That is what the Google Chrome OS is designed for, that is where Acer has a lot of competition right now (mostly from Asus) and that is what is the easiest to make at this point. But speculations are floating around in the industry suggesting that it might be something else as well.

Like a tablet may be. Love it or hate it, the tablet is here to stay and Apple’s iPad has made sure that portable computing would never be the same again. So where would the rest of them go if not to a place where their product line includes a healthy dose of new-age tablets? This has pushed every big computer company to come up with their own versions of the tablet but so far they have not been able to match the speed and performance of the iPad. Forget the elegance.

Chrome OS is built to be spartan from day one. It is lean, has nothing but the basics on the device and includes only the bare minimum drivers and such low level things. So it has extremely fast boot times and is supposed to be snappy even on weaker devices. On the Chrome OS, the OS is basically the Chrome browser and everything is done online. All the app are online, most of the data is in the cloud and the emphasize on it is so strong, there’s still confusion about whether it will be able to play local media or not.

Acer might also surprise with something entirely new. We cannot be sure. I would say that the netbook has a high possibility of happening and the tablet has a lower possibility. And they have more experience in making netbook and netbook like devices than a tablet. However, since Google has hinted at Chrome OS incorporating touch-based inputs, the possibility of it coming out at computex cannot be fully ruled out.

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