Google to target netbooks with new Google Chrome OS
Google launched the official Google Chrome web browser a mere 9 months ago – and in that time, it already has over 30 million people using it internationally. Popular for its simplicity and blistering download speeds, Google Chrome is a web browser which many people I know use – and one which I regularly use for just checking my e-mail.
Quite surprisingly, Google have now announced that they are to release a new computer OS called ‘Google Chrome OS’ which at first is to target netbooks and lower powered machines. It is to be open source – as to promote third party development and should be available *taken from the official Google News Blog* in later 2010.
In a post earlier today, the Google News Blog said; “Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work”.
Hmm, ‘it should just work’ < Apple-esque or what? But, in all sincerity, a brand new OS with no market share what so ever is not going to attract any virus writers anyway is it? Not just that, but the netbook market accounts for only 7% of the PC market and so any OS which is designated to netbooks will not need to be ‘heavily secured’. It would however be nice to see an OS on a netbook other than MS XP, as it tends to drag the performance down quite a bit – Having used an Acer Aspire One running Linux Lite, the performance was blistering – and then I bought an XP version < just to test out, and it differed immensly. Of course, you could argue about functonality, but all any netbook needs is a fast, lightweight and user friendly OS which can run the basic apps well.
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Good, i am piss sick of MS XP on netbooks. And W7 basic is rubbish. Chrome OS, if anything like Android, should be great.
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Original trucka whats your problem? They are just OS’s, and also, whilst we are on the subject of OS’s – I too agree with the above comment because anything that can run like Linux Lite (I too have tried an Acer One Jakk with Linux) is going to be good – but we shall have to wait and see!
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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 ‘
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