{"id":39153,"date":"2011-12-04T18:01:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-04T16:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=39153"},"modified":"2011-12-04T18:05:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-04T16:05:21","slug":"no-chromebook-plans-for-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/39153-no-chromebook-plans-for-sa.html","title":{"rendered":"No Chromebook plans for SA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Acer<\/a> and Samsung<\/a> have no plans to bring Google\u2019s<\/a> Chromebook to South Africa in the near future.<\/p>\n

Graham Braum<\/a>, country manager at Acer, said that the plan is to use their Chromebook as a pilot project with selected partners in a few countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese pilot projects will be evaluated and once we have the feedback on these projects a more strategic plan will be implemented,\u201d Braum said.<\/p>\n

South Africa won\u2019t form part of the pilot, Acer said.<\/p>\n

Google first announced the Chromebook in May 2011 and revealed that Samsung and Acer would be making the first models of the device.<\/p>\n

The Chromebook fits somewhere between a pure cloud terminal and netbook, as it features its own storage (16GB SSD) and runs its own operating system (Google Chrome OS, which uses the Linux<\/a> kernel), but boots straight into the Google Chrome browser.<\/p>\n

Instead of traditional applications built for the platform, users install \u201cweb apps\u201d from the Chrome Web Store inside the browser.<\/p>\n

\"Chromebook

Chromebook New Tab Page<\/p><\/div>\n

For IT departments, Google also launched their \u201cChromebooks for business and education\u201d service, which lets administrators remotely manage users, devices, applications and policies.<\/p>\n

Included with the service, which started at $28\/user for businesses and $20\/user for schools according to the blog post from Google announcing it, was enterprise-level support, device warranties and replacements as well as regular hardware refreshes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google\u2019s hardware partners for its Chromebook have no plans to bring it to SA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":29294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2006,2622,2940,7121,35,645],"class_list":["post-39153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-acer","tag-chromebook","tag-graham-braum","tag-hardware-availability","tag-headline","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39175,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39153\/revisions\/39175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}