Google has announced a pilot scheme of its Chrome-powered notebook ahead of a much-anticipated official release next year.
Google has unveiled a branded netbook which is run on its Chrome operating system. But it won't be on general release until next year.
Instead the search engine is launching a pilot scheme of the notebook to a select few 'early adopters, developers and users who are used to using beta software'.
Chrome OS was announced in July 2009. It was designed as a lightweight open-source system targeted at the netbook market. A Chrome browser was released in March last year.
Speaking at the announcement in San Francisco on Tuesday, Google announced the notebook will be aimed at "people who live on the web."
"We think cloud computing will define computing as we know it," said Eric Schmidt, Google's chief operating officer.
"Finally there is a viable third choice for an operating system."
Google's head of product for Chrome, Sundar Pichai also praised the system's security. He added: "We are confident that when we ship Chrome notebooks, it will be the most secure OS ever shipped to users."
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