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| Thread ID: 105117 | 2009-11-19 19:59:00 | 8 Things You Need to Know about Chrome OS | xyz823 (13649) | Press F1 |
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| 831656 | 2009-11-19 19:59:00 | www.maximumpc.com www.maximumpc.com It really is an OS built into the cloud. |
xyz823 (13649) | ||
| 831657 | 2009-11-19 20:12:00 | I would like to try it out but... Chrome will have very specific platform requirements. It won’t run on machines with physical hard drives, only SSDs. Only certain Wi-Fi chipsets will be supported. Chrome OS will also have requirements for screen size, a full-sized keyboard, and a decent sized touchpad. They demoed Chrome OS working on an eeePC today, and said that you'd be able to upgrade some netbooks on the market today using a screwdriver. |
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| 831658 | 2009-11-19 21:06:00 | Keen as mustard .. bummer that I sold my EeePC's! Seriously though I know it's going to have a very limited application, but damn it's appealing, and they *truly* have foresight to be planning everything "from the cloud" like that. Sure people may get sketchy about their data not physically being right there on their machine, you can't always teach an old dog new tricks, but regardless, they're pioneering something cool in my books! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 831659 | 2009-11-19 21:39:00 | www.youtube.com Good stuff :) Nice to see they're taking security well. I could envisage this being a corporates dream! You've got 1,000 employees on the road with "dumb" devices, it doesn't matter if they're lost or stolen as the data isn't stored on the device itself, and what limited data *is* installed on it is password-protected and then encrypted on the SSD. That's a freaking dream for IT managers!! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 831660 | 2009-11-19 21:56:00 | Chrome will have very specific platform requirements. It won’t run on machines with physical hard drives, only SSDs. Only certain Wi-Fi chipsets will be supported. Chrome OS will also have requirements for screen size, a full-sized keyboard, and a decent sized touchpad. They demoed Chrome OS working on an eeePC today, and said that you'd be able to upgrade some netbooks on the market today using a screwdriver. That's ridiculous. Some netbooks have hard drives. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 831661 | 2009-11-19 22:05:00 | I like the look of google Chrome. Will anybody on here be trying it out? |
convair (13650) | ||
| 831662 | 2009-11-19 22:11:00 | They really are pioneering the way for online integration with your OS. | xyz823 (13649) | ||
| 831663 | 2009-11-19 22:11:00 | Chrome will have very specific platform requirements. It won’t run on machines with physical hard drives, only SSDs. Google doesn't anticipate Chrome OS being used on your desktop PCs (at least, not yet). Dual-boot will not be possible, and it won't work with your third-party peripherals that use non-standard drivers. Keyboards, mice, and USB hard drives will work, but it's extremely unlikely that you'll be able to sync your iPhone with Chrome OS. They say that they'll have a novel solution for printing in the future. :lol: :lol: :lol: So read as a total waste of time for the average home user = CRAP OS. As per one of the comments: It'll be a cute fad, but a completely crippled OS does not a good idea make. So basically stick to either real operating systems that work most of the time, Windows, REAL linux Distro's, MAC OS. |
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| 831664 | 2009-11-19 22:14:00 | Re the printing option does it involve pen and paper? :sleep | gary67 (56) | ||
| 831665 | 2009-11-19 22:15:00 | :lol: :lol: :lol: So read as a total waste of time for the average home user = CRAP OS. I don't think the home user is their target market. |
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