http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/ Engadget Comments for Google's Chrome OS revealed -- with video! http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/Nov 19th 2009 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/Nov 19th 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
sounds more like 4017.]]>Nov 19th 2009 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
well 2015 will be here in no time if we keep getting fun little videos like that to sit and watch. i mean if i watched that adorable little video again i wouldnt even care about the next 6 years...and BAM! time for cloud os...i mean chrome os]]>Nov 19th 2009 2:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
That is if we survive Dec 21, 2012.]]>Nov 19th 2009 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
Can I keep my extra chairs, google balloons and party poppers at your place for the launch party?

oh, but you are not invited!]]>Nov 19th 2009 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/Nov 19th 2009 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/Nov 19th 2009 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/Nov 19th 2009 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
I don't even want to start imagining the numbers...


* checks internet banking for any changes *]]>Nov 19th 2009 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/Nov 19th 2009 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
Sorry M$ drones this will be here a lot sooner than you want]]>Nov 20th 2009 2:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/Nov 19th 2009 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
I agree. I hate the concept of cloud computing in general. I at least want some semblance of privacy (whether it's really there or not!).]]>Nov 19th 2009 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/Agreed. If people thought vendor lock-in through proprietary formats (e.g. AAC, .doc, etc) is bad, they should have a field day with this - none of your data is actually your own. At Google's behest it can all disappear. On top of that, they can scan through anything you have; anything remotely resembling privacy becomes a dream.

All of this for what? Functionality that exists under ANY current operating system (they all have browsers), which you know, actually allow you to use your computer as you want instead of as a dumb terminal.]]>Nov 19th 2009 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
agreed

cloud computing concept still has its flaws]]>Nov 19th 2009 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/But besides that I dont see why the cloud is a bad thing. Remember this is on a netbook. I run 3 computers: Desktop, Laptop and Netbook. I won't assume everyone runs 3, but I would like to hope that people with a netbook aren't using it as their main computer. All have their very specific purposes and the netbook's is not to hold a bunch of personal data. In fact I install a different OS on it every couple of months without even thinking about the reformat cause there is nothing on it but the OS.
I might be inclined to agree with you...if google had't explicitly said this is for netbooks (for now ;P)]]>Nov 19th 2009 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
Could be implemented with netbooks from Cell carriers that will have 3G...

But overall, I don't see the point. I can do everything I can with ChromeOS on a netbook with Linux / Windows 7]]>Nov 19th 2009 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
I agree. I talked to a buddy of mine over at Google and I told him there were some cool things with Google Docs that could be used for making simple databases, but I told him I don't trust Google and he said he wouldn't trust Google with information either.

And on a side note, I have serious doubts about this "no updates" thing.]]>Nov 19th 2009 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
Couldn't agree more, what with the sidekick issue I'd been totally screwed if I lost all my data. I'm not to keen on them owning it all and basically leasing it back to me either. Perhaps they'll let you back up but even still the prospect of working entirely in a browser doesn't really appeal to me. They claim no access to the core of the OS is a good thing, really? ]]>Nov 19th 2009 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
yeah, this concept is not for me. i like my files on my own disk, thank you very much.]]>Nov 19th 2009 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
google is not off its rocker, it know what its doing. google IS the internet after all]]>Nov 19th 2009 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
The three most used apps on my computer are - Chrome/FF, Skype and itunes (not that I'm particularly attached to it, too lazy to switch to alternate iphone sync programs). And I see a lot of people like me.

I don't know how well offline support will be, but really, cloud computing is the way to go!]]>Nov 19th 2009 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/Nov 19th 2009 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
cloud computing is a cool idea in concept, but the infrastructure isn't there for a constant state of connection, and the ability to locally back up is a must for me. just look what happened with the sidekick fiasco. the ability to have everything wherever you go is great in concept, and google's online apps are great about this, but to make it hardware restrictive is very unappealing.]]>Nov 19th 2009 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
Don't forget, all those "floating windows" seem like perfect real estate for Google's revenue stream...ADS]]>Nov 19th 2009 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/ Why? that's kind of silly...what are you going to be doing on your computer that you won't be using the internet for? I know that sometimes it goes down, but so would the internet on your non chrome os computer.

Also, if your going to say typing a paper or word processing...you probably need to reference the internet to do that anyways.

The only thing I could think of is watching movies/listening to music. ]]>Nov 19th 2009 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/Nov 19th 2009 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/Nov 19th 2009 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
Same here. I don't like the idea of having to have an internet connection all the time. And i like the idea of my stuff being right next to someone else's stuff.

I'll stick to my RAID 0+1 Array thank you very much. ]]>Nov 19th 2009 11:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
Sounds like Crystal Pepsi]]>Nov 20th 2009 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/"Too cloudy. I don't want to have to be connected to the internet all the time."

Agreed!

And this only works when you have a fast net connection to take advantage of this tech. And some places dont have that still. ]]>Nov 20th 2009 6:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/I agree. I don't like the idea of having all my personal data stored on a server far away from me. I also don't understand why we need the cloud anyways. I mean storage is unbelievably cheap nowadays so why not just storing all my things on that 70 $ 1TB HDD?
What I do like about the idea of Chrome OS is being directly connected to the internet without having to start a web browser. But I want to keep all my offline programs to watch a movie, listen to music or just play a game, when my internet connection fails (what happens about every evening at the moment).
So what Google should/could do is making Chrome OS with everything stored on the computer itself and being able to do a backup(with optional password protection) on the cloud, so that if my HDD crashes, I can restore everything from "the cloud", but I always have all my data on my own computer.]]>Nov 20th 2009 7:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/Nov 20th 2009 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/what do you do on it?]]>Nov 25th 2009 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/Nov 19th 2009 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/Nov 19th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/Nov 19th 2009 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
That's why we need 96 by 9 monitors.]]>Nov 19th 2009 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/I just have to say that right now using chrome I have 20 tabs open... but that's a bit of a rare case, I'm doing some researching now so that;s why-but usually I have 7-10 tabs open.

btw, people mention what you can't do-games people, games...]]>Nov 19th 2009 5:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/Nov 19th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
(Best response to date.)]]>Nov 19th 2009 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
Yea the saying that came to my mind is "when it rains, it pours".

Don't have an internet connection? Good luck. ]]>Nov 19th 2009 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/Nov 19th 2009 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/Nov 19th 2009 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
Funny, I haven't had a hardware issue with Ubuntu or Fedora in about 4 releases (2 years or so). Compare that to my experiences installing XP, Vista, or more recently Win7, where I spend hours finding drivers from various CDs and websites for all the hardware components. In fact, my last two windows installs (1 vista, 1 win7) didn't even successfully add LAN support, so I had to use another computer to find the LAN driver, put it on a USB key, and install it on the new Windows machine before I could go online and find the other goodies like video, sound, and wifi drivers.
Something tells me that, if people can figure that out, they can figure out Google's OS (or Ubuntu for that matter).]]>Nov 19th 2009 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/You did something wrong then,when i installed Win7 I didn't install any drivers,Win7 found all my equipment and then when I got online it grabbed the latest drivers for everything,no effort on my part required.]]>Nov 19th 2009 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/Nov 19th 2009 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/
basically a browser, everything in cloud. only webapps

lol, thats fine for a limited function devices, but for a computer? no chance in hell.

no bt, no porno, no any real games, no real hardware accelerated softwares.

Its so much worse than linux, not to mention windows.

Is google going nuts?]]>Nov 19th 2009 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/googles-chrome-os-revealed/Nov 19th 2009 2:16PM