Two New Chrome Devices Surface

Before the CR-48, we saw many device rumors being thrown around. Now that Chrome OS seems to be right around the corner, it's obvious that more and more devices will pop up. Well, for now we see two devices - one netbook by the name of ZGB, and one that seems to be a touch-enabled device by the name of "Seaboard".

Let's start off with the ZGB. Most probably an ASUS Chromebook, chances are we're looking at a 12-15" device with a 1366x768 (16:9) resolution. Along with that, CrunchGear says that it should be an Atom processor due to an addition HDMI controller. Other than that, we don't have much info on the ZGB. Although this just seems like a CR-48 successor, this may be the first official Chromebook in the market - which is definitely a big deal.

Now for the big one - the Seaboard. It's been no secret that Google's been making Chrome a little more touch-screen savvy, so chances are they've been messing around with some touch devices to test it. The Seaboard has popped up in a few bug reports, and it looks like it's got some pretty amazing specs. The Seaboard packs a Nvidia Tegra II, an Atmel MXT Touch Screen, 2MB SPI storage (?), 1 GiB of DRAM, and two USB ports. I'm kind of disappointed with the lack of HDMI port, but other than that it looks pretty standard. It seems that no one's sure if it's a tablet or a touch-enabled netbook, so we'll have to see.

Now that Chrome OS is nearing it's first commercial appearance, I'm excited to see what kind of devices we're going to see. Netbooks are definitely on their way, but what if tablets show up? We may see some competition with it's Android tablet cousins. I'm interested to see how that would play out!

Source: CrunchGear & The Chrome Story