Google has announced Chrome OS based notebooks named Chromebook. Here I am sharing features and specifications of two models, first one from Samsung and second one from Acer including price, which is taken from other source. Also, you can see the accessibility features that ChromeOS offers to the visually impaired users. These would be officially available for the people for purchase from June 15 in many countries. The Chromebooks comes from the partners like Samsung and Acer and these are not the typical notebooks.
Its said to be very promising with features like no need to boot PC, automatic updates of the softwares on your Chromebook, amazing battery life that expect to be 15 hours.
The Samsung Series 5 Chromebook will available with Intel Atom Dual Core N570 processor with features like 12.1 inch, 1280×800 resolution and 300 nit display, HD webcam with noise cancellation. With other features like microphone, full size chrome keyboard, 4 in one memory card slot, two USB port. It offers a whopping 8.5 hours battery life with one time charging. Its screen is very ultra thin with 0.79 inch flat.
It would be available in two flavours of colors which are white and black. Its available in two options $429 with WiFi Versions and $499 with 3G version.
It weights only 1.3 kgs. Acer Chromebook is priced at $349 for WiFi versions and would go on sale from June 15.
If you're on the main sign-in screen, press Ctrl+Alt+Z to enable or disable accessibility features.
• The sign-in screen speaks. The user name field and password prompts are spoken. Your password is not echoed when you enter it for security reasons.
• Once you're signed in, the Chrome OS screenreader, ChromeVox, is activated. With ChromeVox active, you get spoken feedback for all user actions. For example:
◦ All the Chrome menus talk.
◦ Opening webpages produces a combination of spoken feedback and non-speech auditory cues.
• ChromeVox provides a set of keyboard commands you can use to navigate Chrome menus and webpages. You can navigate web content in a variety of ways. For example, pressing the arrow keys while holding down the Shift and Search keys moves through the elements on the current page and speaks them intelligently
as they are traversed.
Click here to know more about Chrome vox accessibility
Its said to be very promising with features like no need to boot PC, automatic updates of the softwares on your Chromebook, amazing battery life that expect to be 15 hours.
Samsung Chromebook Features & Price
Samsung Series 5 Chromebook is the first notebook with Chrome OS including CR 48 Laptop.The Samsung Series 5 Chromebook will available with Intel Atom Dual Core N570 processor with features like 12.1 inch, 1280×800 resolution and 300 nit display, HD webcam with noise cancellation. With other features like microphone, full size chrome keyboard, 4 in one memory card slot, two USB port. It offers a whopping 8.5 hours battery life with one time charging. Its screen is very ultra thin with 0.79 inch flat.
It would be available in two flavours of colors which are white and black. Its available in two options $429 with WiFi Versions and $499 with 3G version.
Acer Chromebook Features & Price
Google Acer Chromebook powers a 11.6 inch display screen with 1366×768 pixel resolutions powered by Intel Atom N570 processor. It supports 2 GB RAM with 16 GB SSD drive, 1.3 megapixel camera, stereo speakers, 2 USB Port, 1 HDMI port and 802.11 b/g/n WIFI connectivity.It weights only 1.3 kgs. Acer Chromebook is priced at $349 for WiFi versions and would go on sale from June 15.
accessibility features
Chrome OS provides synthesized speech (Chrome vox) feedback for visually impaired users.If you're on the main sign-in screen, press Ctrl+Alt+Z to enable or disable accessibility features.
• The sign-in screen speaks. The user name field and password prompts are spoken. Your password is not echoed when you enter it for security reasons.
• Once you're signed in, the Chrome OS screenreader, ChromeVox, is activated. With ChromeVox active, you get spoken feedback for all user actions. For example:
◦ All the Chrome menus talk.
◦ Opening webpages produces a combination of spoken feedback and non-speech auditory cues.
• ChromeVox provides a set of keyboard commands you can use to navigate Chrome menus and webpages. You can navigate web content in a variety of ways. For example, pressing the arrow keys while holding down the Shift and Search keys moves through the elements on the current page and speaks them intelligently
as they are traversed.
Click here to know more about Chrome vox accessibility
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