According to some rumors floating lately, Google is likely to offer subscription based distribution of Chrome OS laptops to users, as early as couple of months from now, around July 2011.

According to Neowin, Google will be selling the devices as part of a subscription based model with Gmail to customers so as to attract more customers than they could have attracted by conventional sales of Chrome OS laptops.

Although this seems very unlikely as this will loosen the control of sales from hardware manufacturers which they obviously wouldn’t like at all and may also impact the profits that manufacturers make out of selling Chrome OS laptops at their usual price.

Remember, this model would be more like renting a device rather than buying it with subscription. That means, those who will rent such a device will not own it, even if they keep using it for 2-3 years and keep paying the rental money.

Factually, hardware renting model is complete rumor at this point and Google is not supporting this at all but who knows what ways Google might try to help increase the sales of its upcoming line of Chrome OS devices.

Stay tuned…!