Despite approximately 3,519 press reports to the contrary, Acer says "Acer will not launch a Chrome OS netbook at Computex" (an important trade show in Taiwan) and it "has no short-term plans for such a product". The statement adds:
Acer believes that Google Chrome OS is without doubt an exciting product announcement and deserves it's [sic] full attention as well as an in-depth study of its potential from a consumers perspective.
Acer is naturally interested in any product or service that enhances the overall experience of its products and will of course be following the development and progress of Google Chrome and the evolution of Google's overall product strategy very closely.
Me too! I'm keen to find out whether a Chrome OS netbook will reliably load Google's home page in less than a minute or two, or whether it will suffer from Chrome's long-standing cross-platform "Resolving host" hang-up.
Currently, of course, Chrome's recurring inability to actually, you know, load web pages is a bit of a drawback for a browser, but it's not a big problem on Windows because you can load them in Internet Explorer instead. What do you do if your Chrome OS notebook can't load web pages? Any ideas?
