Report: Google developing a laptop with touch screen

Google continues to expand into the hardware, and is currently working on laptops with touch screen based on the Chromium OS
Google is developing a touch-screen laptops based on Chrome OS, reports The Wall Street Journal, according to sources. According to the report, new computers will be introduced later this year. What is not yet known hardware companies develop devices for Google, and the company also built software developers have appropriate applications of these devices - they can work in both its operating system and via the touch screen.
This is another step in Google's her attempt to accustom the public cloud computing. Her current chrome computers ("Chrome Book", manufactured by Samsung and Acer and cost between U.S. $ 199 and -249) were intended primarily to run different services (Tmilim processors and games, for example) versions installed versions of Network instead of the local machine. Until now, these computers were not a great success in the market, in part because declared in 2009, near the beginning tablet revolution - mobile computing took its direction. The first Chrome computers launched in 2011. According to analysts, the fourth quarter of 2012 sold approximately 100,000 chrome-based laptops in the United States - an improvement from the previous computers, but far fewer laptops shipped with the operating system, Microsoft windows.
"In the long term - to be competitive, most products will include a contact option" Wall Street Journal said Stephen Baker, vice president at research firm NPD. "Chrome has to go in this direction with the touch screen products."