http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/ Engadget Comments for Schmidt says Chrome OS devices will be 'disposable,' priced like netbooks 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/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 20th 2010 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 20th 2010 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/
What? you don't throw away $400 every week?

sheet this world is so sad... people cant eat and this joker along with f'in GM CEOs think $400 is disposable...

I can get a Laptop that lasts me years for $400 on a good sale...]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/they arent talking about disposable in terms of cost, or use it once, toss it and buy a new one.

they are talking about disposable in terms of sensitive information, i believe. they do not have to be so careful when they are getting new computers or whatever because all the information they have is stored in the cloud, not in the computer]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 20th 2010 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/
Taken out of context, it seems meaningless. But what Schmidt is talking about, are thin clients.

GoogleOS devices can replace thin clients, which an IT department does in fact see as throw-away devices, without much fuss in terms of setting up the client, because data and software will exist primarily in the cloud. Thin clients are considerably more attractive to large companies, because the amount of effort and time to get brand new computers up and running with all the installed drivers and software including configuration is very costly. Compare the cost of configuring the thin client via web-based controls, and the thin client wins.

For the rest of us, it is not so disposable.]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/
Umm.. no faking way do I want all my info going through the cloud...

C'mon please... you can get a good 16-32GB USB drive on sale for cheap... this should be easily used to back up plenty of important info...

heck I can ConeZilla my HDD on this thing...

You obviously dont live in USA... there disposable means throw away.... why do you think GM is in the poop hole now? people want cars that last.. ie HONDA]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 20th 2010 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/i dont think you know what you are talking about]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/
%99 of my comments are based on the first comment and title of the article.. I just wanted to join in on the hate trashing... :D]]>Apr 20th 2010 9:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 20th 2010 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/
Not to mention that being able to be priced like that will still highly likely lead to labor practices highly contradictory to googs "don't be evil" or whatever their BS motto is. great search engine, still a bunch of hypocritical schmucks though.]]>Apr 20th 2010 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/
No matter who you are, "disposable" is not a good way to describe your company's hardware.]]>Apr 20th 2010 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://j.mp/chrome-netbook]]>Apr 20th 2010 9:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 20th 2010 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/
Cool eh, those fortune 100 companies can toss out their servers and computers and just give all their data to Google.

Nothing amiss in that picture is there.]]>Apr 20th 2010 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/
If the answer is for every company to host their own individual "mini" cloud unto themselves, like so many do with Exchange servers, where is that cost savings and lack of upkeep that is supposed to drive the adoption in the first place?

It seems like a great idea for a utopia where everybody can trust Brother Google, but I don't see that utopia happening anytime soon.]]>Apr 21st 2010 1:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/
There are some very very smart people in your organization that you dont know. Usually the smart people that are very low in the organizatin are sort of suffering because no one will talk to them. Try to find them, try to tlisten to them and try to have them be your beacons as to how the organization should evlolve. - Eric Schmidt ]]>Apr 21st 2010 2:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/
and eric isn't talking about his company's hardware, that'll be made by someone else; his company only makes the software]]>Apr 21st 2010 6:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/I have friends unnecessarily spending nearly $100 a month on a voice and data connection for their "smartphone" to go along with their internet connection at home. Give me a cheap $40 phone. I can wait until I get home to read my email. ]]>Apr 21st 2010 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 21st 2010 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 20th 2010 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 20th 2010 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 20th 2010 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/
Exactly this could nonsense everybody keeps shoving down our throats is getting nonsense. These days these ISP are putting data caps on everything and also if I am away from the house sometimes I don't have access to the net. Also what if I can't get a signal. Cloud computing is looking like a big fail to me. The Sidekick fiasco also proves another point against it. ]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/As if our networks aren't overloaded with video streaming and all that crap already. Now you want to send your whole HDD over the air too?]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 20th 2010 9:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Chrome OS + Google Fiber (paid service) + Google Femtocells (built into modem) = Depressed Telcos]]>Apr 20th 2010 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 20th 2010 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 20th 2010 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/there are many alternatives to Microsoft Office. open office is one example. since chrome OS will be based on Linux there will be many programs that will work just the same.

but thats not even the issue, you wont NEED any programs. you will run web based programs. you can use google docs or whatever else is created to do everything you need without having any programs or information stored on your computer]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 20th 2010 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/
1. Google Chrome OS will not have any programs installed besides Google Chrome. You won't be able to save ANYTHING to the hard-drive. It will check the MD5sum of the hard-drive's system files on boot-up and if it doesn't match with the original install, it will re-download the system files and overwrite the contents of the hard-drive.

2. Since Microsoft is making a web-based office suite available for free (think Google Docs), Microsoft Office documents you receive via E-mail or instant messaging will open automatically in that suite.]]>Apr 21st 2010 6:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/
The picture of the OS that Google released has PicasaWeb and Chess on it (which shows that there may be other applications).

Also, I imagine if you dual-boot and partition the hard drive, you will be able to save other information on the hard drive.]]>Apr 21st 2010 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/
But all of my applications and their data, stored on Google's servers? Hell no. I value my privacy.]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/
If Google had a private server package around their OS, it isn't that much different than hiring any other data center for backup of your critical data. ]]>Apr 21st 2010 1:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 20th 2010 8:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/look at my reply to the first post. i believe they arent talking about disposable in terms of buy one, throw it away, get another. i think they are talking about disposable in terms of your information, programs, etc.

you dont have to worry about your sensitive information when you get a new device, or about moving all your programs over to the new device. they are all there for you already in the cloud.]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/
Yes your things are stored in the cloud, but a subset of that is also in your "disposable" hardware.]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/yes, but it also makes migration much quicker, and cheaper for companies to use the cloud.

its new, but i think it will catch on]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 20th 2010 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/
Must be nice being a billionaire I guess...]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 20th 2010 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/
he was saying all of your information is stored in the cloud, all your programs are stored in the cloud. you dont need to worry about sensitive information getting stolen from your computer because its not on your computer. you dont need to worry about transferring your programs to a new computer because its not on your computer.

you dont need to worry about your harddrive crashing because your information, your documents, your presentations, etc... are not stored on the computer. Thats what he means when he talks about disposable]]>Apr 20th 2010 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/
You're right, but he should have said "interchangeable".]]>Apr 20th 2010 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/
Sounds great. And I might actually be up for Google's vision of Cloud Computing... just not now.. maybe in 10 years...]]>Apr 21st 2010 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 20th 2010 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 20th 2010 8:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 20th 2010 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/20/schmidt-says-chrome-os-devices-will-be-disposable-priced-like/Apr 20th 2010 8:56PM