A Google-branded Chrome OS notebook will be launched by Inventec in November, with Acer and Hewlett-Packard following suit thereafter, according to a report.

A Google-branded Chrome OS notebook will be launched by Inventec, with Acer and Hewlett-Packard following suit thereafter, according to a report.

The DigiTimes report puts the launch date of the Inventec notebook in November, with Acer and HP launching theirs a month later, in December.

Interestingly, the report did not cite Dell, alongside Windows.

A source close to Google said this week that the Web giant is still on track to launch its Chrome OS by the end of the year, as well as its Chrome app store.

Google's Chrome OS is expected to be an ultrathin client on top of the Chrome browser, with the idea that the majority of activities will take place on the Web or within the cloud. A report , with a stating that they would launch within the fourth quarter.

DigiTimes characterized the products as "smartbooks," using the ARM processor instead of a more common X86 chip from AMD or Intel. Those products would compete against netbooks from Asus or Acer, and perhaps the new .

So far, most discussions of Chrome OS have been in the context of smartbooks or netbooks. In tablets, the OS would be forced to go up against the Apple iPad.

In tablets, Strategy Analytics said Tuesday it found that Apple's share of the market is 97 percent. Apple sold 4.19 million iPads during the quarter, the company said in a statement.

Global tablet sales rose 26 percent from the previous period to 4.4 million units, with Apple selling 4.19 million iPads, the company said in a statement reported by Bloomberg. Google's more full-featured Android OS declined to 2.3 percent from 2.9 percent.