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Google announces Chrome OS

So from what I can gather it's the browser running at the OS level. Perfect for netbooks and UMPCs.
 
Could be handy for people to just check email and stuff quickly, but for anything else, probably not the best. I might install it just for Lulz.
 
Wow, this seems pretty interesting. Like Eran said, it seems great for portables. I want this for my MSI :D
 
It seems pretty pointless to me. I'll keep my stripped down Linux distro, the rest of you can have your bootable web browser.
 
Hardrive said:
It seems pretty pointless to me. I'll keep my stripped down Linux distro, the rest of you can have your bootable web browser.
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I'm with Hardrive here, I can't see the point of it at all.
It's just going to be a Linux distro so I can't see the reason for all the hype and OMGWOWZORS.
 
That's what I was thinking. OS's work fine on netbooks. I'd rather have an actual computer than just a browser.
 
I'm with everyone on this... Pointless... Why a Browser-OS?
 
KezraPlanes said:
I'm with everyone on this... Pointless... Why a Browser-OS?
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The more I think about this, it still is pointless, but it's also scary. Think about it, Google is an advertising company. Everything they do is so they can provide more targeted ads. Gmail is a perfect example of this. Do we really want an entire OS that will track all of our actions? I know I don't.
 
I know I do... I super jazzed about this. HDD do you even have a netbook?
 
I have an old laptop and the only possible use for it is to surf the internet. Problem is that loading up the browser etc. takes too long. Enter ChromeOS.
 
isn't this a cloud system?*as I recall from a youtube video*
Just able have a os boot from the web.(Like youtube for example, load your videos within the web)
This is pretty pointless, even if they give you place store your files its not worth it.
 
Not excited one bit about this. I'm fine with Windows XP on my small computer and would rather have functionality over anything. I would however like to see Android running on a windows machine (well actually just heard yesterday that you can through a virtual machine now that I think of it).
 
I'd rather use Windows 7. I fucking lurve Windows 7.

Like I said on another forum, if I can't load up steam and play my games, I have no use for that OS. Something tells me Steam will never work on Chrome OS. Even on a laptop, I'd like to be able to play Peggle, or Puzzle Quest.
 
Useless crap and IMO even insulting.

Pop a browser onto Linux as GUI (simply instead of KDE or Gnome) and call it an own OS?
For christs sake, NO!

As painfull as it is to say ;) once Win7 hits the shelfs, it'll be the main OS on my Lap- as well as my Netbook.... with OSX86 as secondary :p

But this is uber crap, really.... esp. coming from Google....
 
It better have offline functionality (since from what I understand the OS itself will basically be Chrome while the apps will be ran in the browser) or else I won't even consider it.
 
Hardrive said:
Yeah, I have a netbook. I'm not about to put an browser-only OS on it though, it's a step in the wrong direction.
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Right.
Pulling out functionality to make it work on smaller HW is not the way to go, and a "browser based" OS has close to zero functionality.

Make the OS more efficient (again) to be able to use all functionality on the smaller HW - THAT's the way to go according to my 2ct.

And - again - a shame to say, but Win7 does this!
I am using the RC on my Netbook for quite a while now.... and really don't want anything else anymore....


IMO Google is trying to pull of something pseudo-cool here here (again) to place their monitoring, privacybreaking and full-of-ads stuff on more computers as it is already.

I want a new search engine :(
 
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