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Read more.The Internet giant has finally offered the world a look at its upcoming operating system, due out towards the end of next year.
This really does sound like how Apple handles their OS.
/me hits F11
Oh look, I got ChromeOS!
Originally Posted by Agent
this_is_gav (20-11-2009)
Well that was a bit pathetic - a thin client with a web browser for all apps?
Well thank god we finally have a competitor to splashtop kids!!!
Crosshair VIII Hero (WIFI), 3900x, 32GB DDR4, Many SSDs, EVGA FTW3 3090, Ethoo 719
Thoroughly disappointed, but the more I think about it, not surprised.
Love how they are understating their aims in not competing with Microsoft and Apple;
"its not for the desktop".
Can you hear the silent "...YET" ?
Actually, surely anyone with a fairly good understanding of Linux could take one of the very basic builds - i.e. one with the kernel and not a lot else, and then effectively build this themselves by installing chrome and subscribing to googledocs, then just set it up as a dual boot.
Admittedly, "ChromeOS is secure against malware", but a properly setup Linux machine is hardly a sitting duck for viruses and the like...
An out of the box Linux setup is hardly a sitting duck for viruses and the like... But it doesn't suffer fools gladly, either. I'm guessing this is the crowd Google is aiming at.
In the same way I don't have a 100mbit low-latency broadband connection "...YET"?Can you hear the silent "...YET" ?
Crosshair VIII Hero (WIFI), 3900x, 32GB DDR4, Many SSDs, EVGA FTW3 3090, Ethoo 719
The net connection is to be used for (web)app download, and syncing
they have said it will run cached locally in the browser without a net connection...
Proof is in the pudding though isn't it? Google is all about online, all the time, and unfortunately that's an infrastructure problem more so than a programming one in the real world. I'm extremely skeptical that this has any real validity in a world where a fully blown desktop OS runs very well even on netbooks (and i'm not just referring to Windows) and does everything that this does (i.e. run a browser - woot!) plus a heck of a lot more. It's a heck of a long 'YET' if you ask me given their low aspirations for it even now and it's amusing too see the beeb picking up on it and calling it the first major competitor to Windows (linux and mac fans no doubt displeased) evaaaar - such is the power of "Google" in marketing these days.
I used splashtop (onboard flash) a few times for novelty value before disabling it though
Crosshair VIII Hero (WIFI), 3900x, 32GB DDR4, Many SSDs, EVGA FTW3 3090, Ethoo 719
Or just download the open source Chromium OS and away you go.
Given the nature of this OS (i.e. very lightweight and mostly cloud based) presumably it won't need a lot of storage, or great storage performance - that would make the cost of equipping such a device with solid state storage a lot cheaper...
I think they're missing a trick saying this is going to be for larger clamshell-style netbooks though, I reckon it would work very well on touch-enabled 7" tablet-like devices...
Obviously, I'm just saying that there's no need to wait "several months" for Chrome OS to come out and all be amazed at its awesomeness, people with the right skills could knock up a fairly accurate representation of it in about 3 hours.
Depends how they want to tread with Android I guess.
......but make no mistake; this was no launch, with Google execs predicting the official launch to be about a year away. Heck, even the public beta is months and months away.
and can you download it already......
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/20/g...ware-download/
Last edited by wesleyaldred; 20-11-2009 at 12:36 PM.
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