Sundar Pichai

Google VP Sundar Pichai touts Chrome OS during the keynote.

Pichai lists the benefits of the Chrome browser here.

Here is Samsung’s Chromebook, offering users a 12.1-inch screen and 8.5 hours of continuous usage, supported by a dual-core Intel Atom processor.

Acer’s notebook is a tad smaller, sporting an 11.6-inch display, 6 hours of usage and the Intel chip.

Here are the distribution channels for both devices.

Chrome for Businesses will cost enterprise users $28 per month per user, with a three-year subscription for a Samsung or Acer Chromebook.

Chrome for Education provides the same tools for $20 per month per user.

Google is promising support, including hardware replacements for when the Chromebooks break down, degrade or are damaged.

The Samsung Chromebox is a portable desktop option for Chrome OS business users.

Google shows off document file in Chrome OS.

See the document rendered in the Chrome browser.

Google has added a media player to Chrome OS.

The player will run music and video.

Google’s Music beta, running in Chrome.

Users may port their Picasa photos to Chrome and manage them there.

Chrome OS applications such as Gmail, Google Docs and apps from these partners will run offline.