arstechnica.com — In 2009, it's better to be an Internet company that's taking slow, awkward first steps toward the PC, than a PC company that's still trying and failing to truly integrate with the Internet. Ars looks at what Chrome OS means for Google, Apple, Microsoft, the netbook, ARM, Intel, and the cloud. "Revolutionary" is a clich?d term, but Chrome OS is ...
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medusoidNov 21, 2009
What happens is you don't buy a netbook running Chrome OS.. at least not until you're sure it'll do what you need it to.. It isn't supposed to replace you main computer.
darkshroudNov 21, 2009
As long as they're google approved to run on the OS. Which isn't going to happen because everything is supposed to run in the browser.
deathfiredNov 21, 2009
@Wefarrekk - Personal Computers (PC) will not be phased out. With company's like Apple, Intel, AMD, Microsoft, IBM...etc so heavily invested in hardware, you'll never see the PC die. At least not in the next 20 to 30 years anyway. Web company's like google are just trying to spark something that will cause the hardware market to panic. Then we have the whole ISP problem. US isn't the only country so try thinking outside of the box for a second. Country's like China, where the majority of the web is blocked, wont be able to use such an OS without having services specifically for them and online storage that the government can easily access to make sure you're not reading or sharing things you're not supposed to. Australia's ISP's have crazy monthly transfer caps and throttles that would make this OS unpractical. You have country's like Korea that are heavily into gaming so an OS like this as well as streaming online games (cloud gaming) are again, unpractical and somewhat useless when you have thousands of gamer hungry asians trying to log in. Cloud computing is not the future for PCs. It's the future for portable devices, elderly and real young people, elementary schools, airports, malls, library's, and other public places that offer free computer use for people that just need to use basic things.
robotbuddhaNov 21, 2009
Hate to say it, but gos has made a better google/cloud operating system than google has.
Closed AccountNov 21, 2009
Tell that to the Hell's Angels ;)
rif42Nov 21, 2009
@Azathothh"no internet connection = useless brick"That is not true! You could still you it as:1. Door stop2. Paper weight
alsazenNov 21, 2009
but will it play Crysis?Taking that as a serious point, it's the idea that you would not install Binaries on the OS at all that really kills this for me. Somethings do just work better running locally rather than via the web. HTML5 is a step towards being able to produce interactive graphics (which would include games) via a browser without having to use Flash or similar, but without wide spread support for the HTML5 feature set yet, I just don't see there being a room for an OS like this just yet, maybe in 5 years this idea will gain more traction at a desktop level (though on a mobile device level it could well be sooner than that)
edwardr3073Nov 22, 2009
i downloaded it and it is definitely for a netbook. its does everything that a netbook is capable of. if i end up getting a netbook from school next year im definitely installing it. if you want it now you can download it at <a class="user" href="http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/" rel="nofollow">http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/</a> all it requires is a sign up or login