Only thing I’m worried about is the lack of program installation(I’d like to be able to install my music players and instant messangers) and any formal desktop. Though it looks pretty nice if I get a Netbook I’ll probably give it a try.
@people complaining
Honestly have you tried using a netbook for anything other than internet they are terrible for it so this isn’t a bad move on Google’s part its just marketing an OS that does the one thing netbooks were made to do.
It just seems counterproductive on Google’s part that they try get into a niche (Netbooks) rather than attempt take over a larger chunk of the market, offering more features to the costumers and ensuring a larger install base. I mean, they are bent on world domination after all. IT JUST SEEMS FISHY TO ME, NOT BUYING IT! :rabies:
My internetz died!=my computer died! :fffuuu:
But seriously, if you are using this and you go out of an internet connection then you’re fucked. I do think it could be useful for technilogicaly challenged people and people using netbooks, fortunately, I am neither.
EDIT: watched a little more and I gotta say, it’s a brilliant design with crippled uses. If they could give more gaming oriented people something as user friendly like this it’d be great.
Agreed. I love Google Chrome. As simplified as it is, I still feel that I can control what I want with the browser. The address bar combined with a search engine is just extremely convenient, and it’s so fast it blows all the other browsers out of the water.
If Google were to come out with an OS that combines the speed, sleekness, and easy yet usable interface they have for Google Chrome, while still supporting the power and efficiency of a gaming computer, I would probably be all over it.
I think soon all netbooks will be equipped with a 3G card so that you’re never too far away from the internet.
But still, if I buy a new netbook or laptop, I will just format and install windows over any linux bullshit they try to make me use.
Well it might be cheaper as well. Paying $90 for the Microsoft Office package is fucking off the charts as a rip off. Chrome saves us from those assholes by that awesome Microsoft link hack.
Tried it out and, well, it’s an OS that opens the browser automatically. They provide exactly what they say they will though. A netbook OS that is web-based, and boots up hella fast.
Read up on it before you criticize it. Google is making all their web-apps work offline as well, that way you can use it while working in an area where you can’t connect. Sure, it’s based off the google docs, which isn’t the most powerful office suite ever, but hell, not bad for being web based.
And no matter how much fancy internet based futuristic shit anyone comes out with in the next decade or so, we will ALWAYS have XP/possibly 7 to fall back onto.
Although Chrome is pretty awesome.
The ironic thing is that, after all my asinine joking about PhotoBloat 11 and Steamypoo etc., my Acer Aspire One netbook actually runs Photoshop fine (admittedly version 7, which was the last decent one they did before they bloated it all up with that CS BS). It also runs Dreamweaver very well, and I do actually have Steam installed, but only to play World Of Goo. But, obviously, I mostly use it for pr0n.
This is the 11 inch AO751h model by the way. A great little machine with a very nice 1366x768 screen.
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