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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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| 831676 | 2009-11-20 00:07:00 | Looking at the Home user, which is 95% of my business, in its current format and limitations it would be useless. Out of all the home users I deal with I would guess on 1 or 2 have a netbook ( note Netbook not notebook/Laptop), that it would run on. Hell according to the article you couldn't even try it out unless you have the right hardware. I recall reading an article about how if Google tries to support as much hardware as Linux and Windows does, they will have a very tough job ahead of them. I guess they solved that problem! I won't be using it, I don't need to. It also wouldn't do anything useful for me even if I could run it |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 831677 | 2009-11-20 11:57:00 | Who said we couldn't run it in a VM? Doubters (gdgt.com):D Interestingly the VirtualBox version didn't work in VirtualBox but the VMware did! i697.photobucket.com i697.photobucket.com i697.photobucket.com i697.photobucket.com |
xyz823 (13649) | ||
| 831678 | 2009-11-20 16:35:00 | what da ya mean virtual box version didnt work? | GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 831679 | 2009-11-20 16:52:00 | Who said we couldn't run it in a VM? Doubters (gdgt.com):D Interestingly the VirtualBox version didn't work in VirtualBox but the VMware did! i697.photobucket.com i697.photobucket.com i697.photobucket.com i697.photobucket.com which install steps have you followed? |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 831680 | 2009-11-20 19:12:00 | I recall reading an article about how if Google tries to support as much hardware as Linux and Windows does, they will have a very tough job ahead of them. You must not have been reading the articles, it *is* running Linux, and as the Linux kernel contains the drivers, they're not supporting any "new" hardware, with the exception of custom stuff that they're trying to get hardware manufacturers to build. I'm hanging for an all-day-on-battery ARM device that costs ~$400-500, but maybe that's just me ;) Anyway here's an interesting article on it which addresses many of the concerns the posters here have had thus far, and acknowledges them as problems: arstechnica.com Anyways, I'm off to install Virtualbox :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 831681 | 2009-11-20 19:33:00 | Interesting from Google: www.chromium.org Use cases and requirements We are initially targeting the following use cases with Chromium OS devices: Computing on the couch Use as a lightweight, secondary work computer Borrowing a device for use in coffee shops and libraries Sharing a second computer among family members |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 831682 | 2009-11-20 19:34:00 | which install steps have you followed? I didn't follow any, I just made a new virtual machine in VirtualBox and made the harddrive the .vdmk file. But when I tried to use the .vdi file it wouldn't work. I think the download may have been corrupted though. I could get it running in VMWare but it wouldn't connect to the internet, so thats when I tried VirtualBox. |
xyz823 (13649) | ||
| 831683 | 2009-11-20 19:45:00 | It seems like it would be a really good OS for internet cafe computers. It is really odd to use because the internet browser -is- the operating system! The coolest thing is that if someone stole your computer you can just relogin somewhere else and all your stuff is there! Or if you forget your computer you can just login on someone elses! Anyone else got it installed yet? What do you think so far? |
xyz823 (13649) | ||
| 831684 | 2009-11-20 21:04:00 | Will be installing after I've got back from some shopping with my lovely wifey... Anyways, had a chance to watch these during the download: www.youtube.com www.youtube.com Covers some of the "...but what about this?" |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 831685 | 2009-11-21 00:07:00 | It seems like it would be a really good OS for internet cafe computers. It is really odd to use because the internet browser -is- the operating system! The coolest thing is that if someone stole your computer you can just relogin somewhere else and all your stuff is there! Or if you forget your computer you can just login on someone elses! Anyone else got it installed yet? What do you think so far? Out of a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest WOW/Great - 1. Loaded it into a virutal machine on a XP PC that is quite happy to run Vista in the VM without any problems. So its not underpowered. Chrome crashes, locks up, Their own errors (www.imagef1.net.nz) :groan: , loaded vista and this is a pre SP1 Vista and it runs fine. The OS would be OK for people who need to be mobile, and thats already been said, but apart from that - they can keep it thanks. I'll stick to laptops if I want to be mobile. If I want a free OS I would use a linux Distro, prob Ubuntu. One thing that is really annoying is you HAVE to log into google to even run the damn thing - I wouldn't trust google with all my personal work data. At least with a real OS you can do work without the internet. An example of that was last night, we lost ours for about 30 minutes - if I had Chrome I couldn't have done a thing, but instead I did some bookwork - no internet required. Chrome OS is basically using the idea of a dumb terminal with the exception the data is on the net instead of a local server.:sleep |
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