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Google is pretty good at designing interfaces, though. I'd prefer they re-evaluate what parts of a GUI are important and release with a new interface that can get us away from the startbutton/taskbar paradigm that's dominated since Windows 95. With an option for "legacy UI" for users who just want it to work like Windows.
More like Linux + Google GUI + Chrome. I understand they won't be using Gnome/KDE. In fact, I would be surprised if they used X11 at all.
So it's a bit like Mac OS X/iPhone OS, which is BSD + Apple GUI + Safari.
Edit: Yes it did:
...its architecture is described as "Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel."
Compare to the Apple case, where Darwin (their BSD version) is open source, but the GUI is closed.
Except everything is web based apps running from the browser, which is why I invoked the webtop + linux definition of this operating system.
That said, I'm sure offline apps could be run from the linux OS with tweeking, but that would undermine the whole "cloud based computing" nature of Chrome OS.
This is being discussed in G&T as well:
I base this on two pieces of evidence. One: I'm still waiting for Chrome on Mac. Two: I'm still waiting for Gears on Firefox 3.5.
No just a random thought.
Hopefully they are thinking more about having a well designed an minimal UI(to work with the tiny screens) than they are about it being a watered down OS. It's going to be running linux, which means you should be able to do anything with it you can with any other OS, other than gaming.
Someone in G&T posted something about Moblin, which appears to be very similar to the Chrome OS concept (linux + webbrowser + netapps frontend) built by Intel for use in netbooks and MIDs. It uses a Gecko rendering engine for the webbrowser (which is what Firefox uses) and allows for access to both online and offline apps. I haven't tried it out yet (downloading it now) but it looks nice and can even live boot from a USB drive:
This is news to me. Have we got a [citation] for that?
So far, I understand Chrome OS to certainly be optimized for web apps, but also a "fully featured" OS otherwise.
Which netbook is that? Last I'd heard, there were no manufacturers/no plans for any dual core netbooks since no one wanted to draw people away from their real notebook bussiness.
My eeePC 1000he is dual core (I just booted it up to double-check).
Are you super sure?
Cause the Atom N280 is NOT a dual core chip.
And this has an Atom N280 chip.
And googling for 1000HE dual core just brings up people talking about the 1000HE in compairison to other dual core netbooks. Which I guess means there ARE dual core netbooks, but NOT the 1000HE.
Yeah, I would be very surprised if the OS did not come preloaded with offline versions of some of the more popular apps with synchronization features.
Last summer I bought the missus an EEE PC for $350 which runs XP great. By the time this OS comes out I would expect netbook hardware to be quite capable of running Windows or MacOS as well as a power laptop or even a pretty good desktop can today (especially considering Windows 7 will be out by then, I use it at work and ye gawds does it kick ass compared to Vista on the exact same hardware).
Certainly ChromeOS would be using less resources than Windows or MacOS but is that really worth the tradeoffs?
You can run any OS that currently runs Chrome and get all the google apps and browser and whatnot as well as all your other stuff.
Or you can run the ChromeOS and get chrome and google apps and nothing else.
Am I missing something here? What is ChromeOS' killer app? More efficient use of system resources? That has never worked in the past as a feature simply because of the pace at which computers keep getting faster.
If it's free, it may displace other Linuxes on netbooks. OS cost is important on low cost computers. Of course, MS will just drop the crippled netbook version of Win7 to close to $0 to keep Google out.
Well, what if Google goes even lower? An ad-supported OS that subsidizes your netbook purchase? I don't see that working either, as it will be next to impossible to lock the netbook down to Chrome OS only.
So yeah, no idea.
Anyway, this: Google's vanity OS is Microsoft's dream is an interesting read for those who think Google is attempting to displace MS.
Very interesting take on things. Kind of makes Bing being a big pile of shit seem more sensible.
my unofficial autobio will be accompanied with tips on how to smile
cause I've found that when they don't see you frown, they never know that you're a threat
and they don't sweat you when you came around
If Google can produce some deals to have Chrome OS pre-installed on netbooks, then it may have a shot, but with the existing contracts with MS, it may be very difficult to do, and unless they produce something that can truly blow the competition out of the water, I'd be close to calling this dead on the vine.
Sure, MS has made their fortune on a largely ignorant and lazy consumer base. But the times, they are a-changing.
Like HP, Acer, and friends?
Replace "Google" and "Linux" with "Apple" and "BSD."
Suddenly it's obvious how retarded his point is.
Never underestimate the laziness of the average consumer.