Dell and HP may join Acer for first Chrome OS devices

While our story on Acer unveiling Chrome OS devices at Computex, the big Taiwanese trade show for computer manufacturers, didn’t pan out the way our sources had led us to believe it would, we do know that Acer is hard at work at devices featuring Google’s Web-centric operating system. Now it appears that Dell and HP may be among the first Chrome OS adopters as well, according to Download Squad.

The site has found files on a repository for Chromium OS, the open-source development version of Chrome OS, which pointed to specific configurations for Acer, Dell, and HP. The highlighted “overlay-x68” files above are responsible for hardware support during the OS build process.

In November, Dell showed off an experimental build of Chrome OS that ran on its Mini 10v netbook, with an early implementation of WiFi support. HP also recently showed off its implementation of Google’s Cloud Print technology, which would allow Chrome OS and Android users to print. And while Acer denied it was working on a Chrome OS netbook shortly after our initial story, further reports hinted that the company was actually bringing the operating system to tablets. In short, it wouldn’t be a huge surprise to see these three companies among the first to announce Chrome OS devices.

[Image via Download Squad]