Samsung Chromebook Showcased at ARM TechCon

The new Samsung Chromebook seems to be a huge success. It currently ranks first on Amazon's laptop best seller list and is temporarily out of stock at the world's largest online retailer.

Some of the reasons why people finally embrace Chromebooks are mentioned by Akshay Agrawal — Director of Marketing, System LSI, Samsung Semiconductor — as he talks to an excited Charbax at the recent ARM TechCon in Santa Clara.

Agrawal states that the Samsung Chromebook is the first mass market ARM powered laptop. It ships with an Exynos5 dual core processor based on ARM Cortex-A15, that can drive high resolution displays, offers offline support for Gmail and Google Apps, in short it brings in the CPU, GPU, memory bandwidth and the best of the power efficiency all together.

Looking at hardware and price of this device, I certainly share the excitement. When it comes to the operating system I'm not yet convinced, that Chrome OS offers all I need. All the more I'm glad to see the tinkerers running other Linux based systems like Ubuntu or Fedora on the Chromebook.