Chromium OS is for people who don't know how to do a damned thing on their machine except click the E-Mail icon or the big blue E on the desktop, which pretty much excludes everyone on this forum. Yes, it has a huge target market, we just are not in it.
Great point. We kinda need to remember that we, as a community, are a *little* bit ahead of the tech curve.
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Chromium OS is for people who don't know how to do a damned thing on their machine except click the E-Mail icon or the big blue E on the desktop, which pretty much excludes everyone on this forum. Yes, it has a huge target market, we just are not in it.
Great point. We kinda need to remember that we, as a community, are a *little* bit ahead of the tech curve.
Oh I understand that completely.
But lets face it, everyone, with the advent of iPods, everyone has a music collection.
The question has to be what about when you are out and about without an internet connection? Say on a plane without wifi?
One of the reasons I want a netbook is that it is low powered and would be useful when I need to leave something on overnight to download which I can later stick onto my main computer. What is more practical here, something who's processor is something like 5 watts or something with a 500 watt power supply?
It just seems asinine to not allow basic storage on the device, I mean sure you can watch youtube videos but what if you want to watch something at a higher quality? Or again? are you expected to re-download again slowing down whatever network you are on?
I still can't wrap my head around the complete absence of local storage
I mean, I would be fine with Googe Docs abstracting through a browser interface, but having my computer suddenly turn useless when my internet goes out...
I dunno, I don't see myself ever wanting something so extreme.
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I honestly think that there is a real market for "power users" with netbooks. I know that is a bit of an oxymoron as power user is usually associated with hi end PC's and stuff. But I see them as lightweight computers that are extremely good of doing a set number of things, these things are all low processing applications like word, playing music and (SD) video, downloading and surfing the net on a couch.
Playing old school games to me, if just a bonus. If I want to use something that requires more grunt I will hope onto a more expensive desktop PC.
Chrome OS seems to only want to do two of what I wanted to do easily and that is surf the internet and send emails. I feel comfortable saying while everyone may not necessarily want to download files, do want to watch videos and listen to music and that is not in a power user category.
I still can't wrap my head around the complete absence of local storage
I mean, I would be fine with Googe Docs abstracting through a browser interface, but having my computer suddenly turn useless when my internet goes out...
I dunno, I don't see myself ever wanting something so extreme.
It also creates the funny situation where if the power goes out you can't access your files at all despite being on a laptop because your router still needs an external power source to run.
I still can't wrap my head around the complete absence of local storage
I mean, I would be fine with Googe Docs abstracting through a browser interface, but having my computer suddenly turn useless when my internet goes out...
I dunno, I don't see myself ever wanting something so extreme.
It also creates the funny situation where if the power goes out you can't access your files at all despite being on a laptop because your router still needs an external power source to run.
I thought they had some concept of a local cache. Is that just for applications?
Also, this doesn't seem like as much of an issue because of the whole "complimentary" device concept. If you are using this as your primary means of accessing your documents, you are doing it wrong.
I still can't wrap my head around the complete absence of local storage
I mean, I would be fine with Googe Docs abstracting through a browser interface, but having my computer suddenly turn useless when my internet goes out...
I dunno, I don't see myself ever wanting something so extreme.
It also creates the funny situation where if the power goes out you can't access your files at all despite being on a laptop because your router still needs an external power source to run.
In that case you could just forgo the router and plug your computer in directly
I still can't wrap my head around the complete absence of local storage
I mean, I would be fine with Googe Docs abstracting through a browser interface, but having my computer suddenly turn useless when my internet goes out...
I dunno, I don't see myself ever wanting something so extreme.
It also creates the funny situation where if the power goes out you can't access your files at all despite being on a laptop because your router still needs an external power source to run.
In that case you could just forgo the router and plug your computer in directly
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Great point. We kinda need to remember that we, as a community, are a *little* bit ahead of the tech curve.
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Oh I understand that completely.
But lets face it, everyone, with the advent of iPods, everyone has a music collection.
The question has to be what about when you are out and about without an internet connection? Say on a plane without wifi?
One of the reasons I want a netbook is that it is low powered and would be useful when I need to leave something on overnight to download which I can later stick onto my main computer. What is more practical here, something who's processor is something like 5 watts or something with a 500 watt power supply?
It just seems asinine to not allow basic storage on the device, I mean sure you can watch youtube videos but what if you want to watch something at a higher quality? Or again? are you expected to re-download again slowing down whatever network you are on?
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I mean, I would be fine with Googe Docs abstracting through a browser interface, but having my computer suddenly turn useless when my internet goes out...
I dunno, I don't see myself ever wanting something so extreme.
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Playing old school games to me, if just a bonus. If I want to use something that requires more grunt I will hope onto a more expensive desktop PC.
Chrome OS seems to only want to do two of what I wanted to do easily and that is surf the internet and send emails. I feel comfortable saying while everyone may not necessarily want to download files, do want to watch videos and listen to music and that is not in a power user category.
Satans..... hints.....
It also creates the funny situation where if the power goes out you can't access your files at all despite being on a laptop because your router still needs an external power source to run.
Satans..... hints.....
I thought they had some concept of a local cache. Is that just for applications?
Also, this doesn't seem like as much of an issue because of the whole "complimentary" device concept. If you are using this as your primary means of accessing your documents, you are doing it wrong.
And someone already mentioned earlier in this thread that you can apt-get apps, that functionality is just hidden.
In that case you could just forgo the router and plug your computer in directly
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