Google to Sell Chrome Laptops for $20 a Month: Forbes

Google will start selling to students its new Chrome laptops for US$20 a month, reports Forbes, citing a senior Google executive. The Chrome laptops will include the Chrome operating system as well as access to “online services”, according to Forbes. Forbes speculates the product is “almost certainly a precursor to an enterprise offering”, adding on to Google's current stable of productivity apps that it sells to businesses for US$50 a year. “An inexpensive Chrome laptop could be added to that for a small premium, somewhat the way mobile phones are sold below cost when tied to calling plans,” the Forbes blogger Quentin Hardy wrote. It is not mentioned if these Chrome laptops will resemble the CR-48 units Google launched in a pilot program last year. Via Design TAXI News.

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