Chromium OS on a $199 Tablet

http://twitter.com/chrispirillo - This video was filmed by Charbax at http://ARMdevices.net at the Mobile World Congress recently.

Freescale was showing their reference design for sub-$200 tablets at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The target is that tablets to be sold below $200 to end consumers will be able to run any Linux-based OS, including Chromium OS - based on the open-source code available at http://chromium.org

In this video, Freescale's product manager of Software Development demonstrates the status of their optimizations of running Chromium OS on their i.MX51 based devices, among other form factors is the recently announced $199 tablet form factor. It even supports hardware acceleration of HTML5 based video playback.

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[TheVintageGamer]

the camera man is all up in this guys face lol.. You can tell its making him nervous.

[mohawk5010]

html5 vid needs some refinement with the ability to jump ahead, but overall nice h.264 quality

can Internet Explorer die already?

[aftermathmovieslite]

@gamingmaster14 Umm, no. You know what outsourcing is? Its when they send calls from dell to India and people there deal with your technological problems. btw? all your PEBCAK

[Johnza23]

This look like shit...

[aftermathmovieslite]

@TotalGameMaster Linux=Dick larger than yours! MWAHAHAHA

[eatcomics]

@FloridaFilmsOnline Well, there are so many online google apps that you could do pretty much anything you would do off your hard drive, be it gaming (But I think gaming will be a lot more limited, but really this OS is for tablets and netbooks so that's not too much of a problem) but you can do word documents and email and music listening and all that stuff from extensions that people are making for the OS or by just using other online services

[TotalGameMaster]

@robdun Linux=dick

[tatewakikuno]

What's the distro in the red one?

[socialoutlaws]

I am always looking for new ideas with social media and youtube. Your video has given me some great inspiration.

[FloridaFilmsOnline]

i dont get why anyone would want to be limited to just internet doesnt make sense

[knuxthefox]

@BigTysHouseOfRants You can get the OS here: chromeos [dot] hexxeh [dot] net

I'm experimenting with it right now.