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A little surprised they've bothered with this tbh, as the Win8 Google Search app does a pretty good job of being a one-stop google app anyway.
But I've messed with Chromium OS a couple of times and figured it was actually a pretty reasonable OS for general computing (after all, it's really just Chrome in a wrapper), so if you can combine it with a full Windows machine for doing legacy stuff and playing games, I can see some mileage in it...
"it will be enabled to launch apps that exist outside the browser"
Is it just me or is that a security disaster waiting to happen?
Maybe, but unlike, say, Java or ActiveX, Chrome has a pretty good rep for sandboxing. Waiting to be proved wrong...Originally Posted by cjs150
has anyone here tested/ played on a chromebox/book?
Tempted, due to low price - all my wife does is documents, youtube, music and browsing = all easily possible!
Chromium OS is the open source version of Chrome OS. The only major difference, afaict, is that it's a pain in the rear to get flash working in Chromium OS, so you can't use any flash-based apps. It works well as long as everything you want to do can be implemented in a browser: so if you already use gmail/calendar/drive/g+ etc. it's a decent experience.
Although if they're making that experience available on Win 8 then Chromebooks/boxes seem a bit moot to me unless the price is really good, or you particularly want a tightly controlled environment (as I've said before, I could see a lot of mileage in google pushing google services + chrome OS as a corporate computing environment).
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