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ASUS has confirmed plans to release its first Chromebooks in early 2014.
In a conference call to investors, Asustek CEO Jerry Shen announced that two new Chromebook
products will ship worldwide towards the end of Q1 (spanning January through March) next
year.
Rumours and industry reports have long hinted that the Taiwanese PC maker would expand into
more computing areas, such as Chromebooks and smartphones, as a way to offset a sharp
decline in its traditional Windows-based PC business.
According to The Taipei Times, the company's first set of Chromebooks will consist of a
11.6″ model priced at US$199 and a larger 13.3″ version set to retail for US$249.
Could these new ASUS notebooks account for the mysterious Tegra 4 and Baytrail-powered
devices recently unearthed in Chromium code commits?
Time, as always, will tell. For now, no further details, specs or info on the devices have
been made available. ASUS Chromebox
While we're on the subject of ASUS, you may remember than an ASUS-branded Chromebox was
one of several (then new) Chrome OS-powered devices to be shown off at the Intel Developer
Forum 2013 back in September.
Unfortunately for anyone out there hotly anticipating its release, these latest rumblings fail to
shed any new light on when or what to expect.