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In a post on its company blog, Google said the operating system would initially be aimed at netbooks, the compact, low-cost computers that have turned the PC world on its head. It said the open-source software, called Chrome OS, would be available in the second half of next year.
The announcement on Google's blog [googleblog.blogspot.com] says,
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code... and we'll soon be working with the open source community...Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. ... and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.
To these people (particularly the younger generation) a netbook can be a practical, portable and affordable machine that does everything they want - FaceBook, YouTube, Skype, email (web-based), IMs, simple photo editing and interaction with their cellphone, plus roaming wireless connectivity.
I recently set up a couple of netbooks - one with a 7 inch screen - and found them extremely usable for these purposes. The users had no need of high-end video, audio or photo manipulation programs (low-end ones worked fine) and were not remotely interested in authoring tools like DreamWeaver or Flash, or any other creative applications. And they were not heavy gamers.
The only Microsoft-centric requirements were the ability to open Word documents (Google Docs has that covered) and support for a roaming wireless dongle (there were no drivers available for Linux).
The term "MS Killer" is obvious nonsense as the office market is not going to change anytime soon, and Apple is likewise hardly threatened as its users tend to use high-end creative applications.
A Chrome OS netbook seems to me to be a perfectly viable proposition as long as roaming wireless connectivity is supported out of the box.
As suggested above, it would be a "fun" consumer appliance and not a work tool.
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....but more competition, the better. :)
People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. [...] Even more importantly, they don’t want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates.
android netbooks boot up in 31 seconds.
windows 7 netbooks boot up in 34 seconds.
even if these netbooks were in sleep mode you would still be waiting about 10 seconds for you to re-associate with your WiFi network.
want your computer to run as fast as when they purchased? actually all computers will if you keep the auto startup programs at bay, your computer doesn't "slow down" cause it gets old its cause you've loaded junk programs on it.. fortunatly no programs will be compatable with chrome so you don't have to worry about that hahaah
spending hours configuring new hardware? don't worry with google chrome you can't upgrade or add hardware!
android netbooks boot up in 31 seconds.
windows 7 netbooks boot up in 34 seconds
SplashTop, now available on Asus, HP, Lenovo, LG, Sony and I also heard Dell, boots in 2-3 seconds with a browser ready to be online.
I'll opt for SplashTop if it's sheer speed I need for surfing on the fly, so unless Google is playing some similar tricks, the competition may already have a leg up.
And they're marking their territory, SASSY!:
Google announces a vision; Splashtop is reality [splashtop.com]
SplashTop, now available on Asus, HP, Lenovo, LG, Sony and I also heard Dell, boots in 2-3 seconds with a browser ready to be online.
you'll still be waiting for your WiFi card to make its connection (7-10) seconds.
If they do use something like spalshtop for the Main OS it won't be like a computer at all, just some "appliance"
I'd rather have the netbook I can us on a plane to watch movies, listen to MP3s, get some light work done, play some games to pass the time.. you know use it like a COMPUTER.
if google says it will have an instant on w/ full OS what is the diffrence from any other computer running splashtop and windows or linux.
if google says it will have an instant on w/ full OS what is the diffrence from any other computer running splashtop and windows or linux.
The Google name?
I'd rather have the netbook I can us on a plane to watch movies, listen to MP3s, get some light work done, play some games to pass the time.. you know use it like a COMPUTER.
You may have that definition of "computer", but most businesses I've worked with would rather provide their staff with the "computers" that they need to do their work. You know, check their work email, a bit of light office productivity... and if those computers **aren't** able to play movies or games that's just a bonus :-)
How is gmail a content site or a failure?
User emails are interpreted by Gmail, it then display ads based on the content of the email...
How is gmail a content site or a failure?
User emails are interpreted by Gmail, it then display ads based on the content of the email...
Again, I ask, how does that make it either a content site or a failure?
It's not providing the content. Your email is.
And how else would it determine the ads it shows?
I'm going to embrace ANY operating system that is 100% open source because I can then dig into the code and fully control what information is gathered.
Google says this will be a light operating system, I bet it will be 33% lighter when I toss all the tracking and generic coding that I don't want.
Line me up on the Google side, sorry MS but I want to control what my OS does without permission.
so what if you have access to the 5%
also i read google is going to ditch the X windowing system so guess what, all those cool open source linux apps aren't going to work with this new googlelinux. Its pretty much going to take a fully functional computer and make it appliance like as a microwave, if that is what you want you'll the very few standing on that side of the line.
wanna control what your OS does? you already can with what is out there now.
you'll still be waiting for your WiFi card to make its connection (7-10) seconds.
Which you won't even notice as the WiFi will start connecting the minute the machine is online when the lid opens, so that time will be nearly imperceptible and a connection will be made by the time you've gotten everything in position and selected a site.
Besides, who uses WiFi?
This Google NetBook will need wireless broadband connectivity built right in because I sure as heck don't want to hunt for Wifi or have a USB broadband dongle hanging off the side of the machine.
The only thing Google has succeeded in doing to date is their search engine and PPC. Everything else Google has made is a failure in the eyes of investors
I'm not an investor, but even if I were I'm sure I wouldn't regard Maps, Earth and the forthcoming Wave as 'failures'.
I also wouldn't be surprised to see Google introduce some nifty innovations to the OS which neither Apple or MS or the Linux community have yet thought of.
just cause its built on an open source linux kernal doesn't mean what rides on top can't be closed source.
Except that Google have said that Chrome OS will be open source.
