November 19th, 2009
A take on Google Chrome OS
Today Google announced Google Chrome OS. But what is there to get me to use Google Chrome OS instead of Mac OS X that I use today? If I can speed up my work by just stay connected in the cloud, I’ll gladly do that. Web applications is what I use exclusively now except Spotify, which always rolls in the background with music. It’s faster to boot up than a conventional OS, Google is highlighting security and it is open source under the BSD license thet will make it easier will be able to modify the operating system.
Apple tried to do the same thing when they released the first generation iPhone. Only to focus on web applications apparently did not succeed then but perhaps it does today. Palm Pre failed recently, and both iPhone OS and Android running native apps today. Maybe the computers are ready now and the performance will be enough for Chrome OS to succeed. I hope so.
Since I don’t need to modify the operating system and just want it to work smoothly it will probably not be the right platform for me. Much of the things Google mentioned in the live broadcast was that it was a specific machine, and I think it may be their take on Apple’s upcoming tablet, or any netbook.
Of course, I will try out their “device” when it is released by the end of next year!
I have installed Chrome OS on one of my netbooks and the performance of Chrome OS is just okay. there is nothing fancy or very special about it. It was just a sort of GUI version of linux or something.
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i installed Chrome OS on two of my netbooks. the Chrome OS works great and its loading time is very fast too.
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I have tried using Chrome OS in one of my desktop PC’s, the overall performance is above average to excellent ~
i have tested chrome os both at home and at work, it does not seem to be better than ubuntu**: