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The Googles Finally Explain How They Will Chrome Out Your ‘Puter

Friday, November 20th, 2009 at 10:06 am by Jamie

“It’s on the internet. You know, like…”

UGH.

Google finally answers all of our geeky speculation with this somewhat snarky and slightly annoying explanation of just what the fuck Chrome OS is. I seriously wanted to throttle the voice over guy. Fuck you, voice over guy. Fuck you and your pretty little drawings! So I get that Chrome OS is designed for a majority of users out there. Half the people I know use their machines for checking email, researching online (i.e. looking at porn), uploading photos, blogging, twittering, or watching shits on YouTube or Hulu or whatever. The other half are power users who do much heavier work on their machines.

Before we get too far, let’s take a look at real life demonstration of Chrome OS.

Pretty slick. That’s the quickest bootup I’ve ever seen. The shit seems to work pretty well. And although the chess game is a flash game, I’m fairly certain Chrome can handle most gaming applications. But back to us power users. Can Chrome OS run Photoshop? Also, um, if all your stuff is on the internet, what happens if you don’t have any internet? Does your computer become an expensive paperweight?

If Chrome can run the Photoshop, I will start to give a shit. It might be interesting to have a machine that had Chrome and OSX or Windows 7 so you could boot up whatever OS you want depending on your needs. There are days when I don’t use Photoshop and don’t need the full power of a clunky OS. Those days, Chrome would be more than adequate. For days that I need to use Photoshop, I could just boot up my OS of choice. I expect that Chrome probably uses less power than a typical OS so on the days when I’m just a lazy internet junkie, my power usage would be less if I ran Chrome than if I ran OSX.

Color me impressed, but not completely sold. It’ll be interesting to see if netbook manufacturers adopt Chrome as a base install when it becomes widely available.

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7 Responses to “The Googles Finally Explain How They Will Chrome Out Your ‘Puter”

  1. AvatarRelic
    Posted: Nov 20th, 2009 at 11:29 am
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    personally i can see it being great as an on the go browser check/blogging tool, but thats about it, they have already said themselves that all it is capable of is what the chrome browser is capable of, only web apps, great for an eeepc or netbook. its not made for desktops, wont support perifials that use non standard drivers, only works on SSD’s it just seems so limited, essentually theyre making the same Os that the Iphone runs on, with the same limitations, except you need an entire computer to run it VS just a phone, i think its just a large scale marketing gimic for the google phone “hey look the google phone is better than the Iphone, our Os works on a computer too!(and you cant sync your iphone to it *snicker snicker*)!

    see here for 8 things you need to know about Crome OS http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/8_things_you_need_know_about_chrome_os

  2. AvatarFmF
    Posted: Nov 20th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
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    First ill address the net thing.There a possibility that in the future the inter net will be free.sponsor by the state.Most financial area of city’s have completely free internet payed for via tax but i don’t see it happening all over for another 20 years though.What get me why do they think it a good idea to have every thing on the internet.I have document’s and personal information i wouldn’t want to be place on the internet.Then there storage.If every thing on the internet where are you storing it and wouldn’t having hundred of storage servers cost money?Wouldn’t i have to pay to keep my family photo stored on these storage servers?If not prepare for to be ad rape.Like stated be for me this seem to be great for mobile devises like phones and net books were you don’t actually have any need for storage.

  3. AvatarJamie
    Posted: Nov 20th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
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    I’d love to see the day when we have a universal, persistent internet. That would be so insanely awesome. Of course, there’d probably be some universal, persistent advertising to go along with it, but it would be kind of awesome.

  4. AvatarLurklen
    Posted: Nov 20th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
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    It seems like it’s mainly for people with serious ADD who can’t wait 45 SECONDS!!! And what kind of half assed sanwich are you making in 45 seconds? Jesus that guy was annoying just because he was so condecending, stateless isn’t that big of a word jackass!

    But even with out the annoying voice over guy, I’m not really sold on this. Like FmF said above there’s a reason I don’t already store all my stuff online, first it would be expensive and second then anyone with a bit of skill could get their grubby little hands on it. And I agree with the statement that this seems to be designed for webbooks and mobile devices, and sure it seems fast but if all I’m useing it for is to run the internet then why the hell do I even have a desktop PC. Now a days I can do that on my phone.

  5. AvatarKevin
    Posted: Nov 20th, 2009 at 5:59 pm
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    I’m probably going to stick with my student copy of 7. Mostly cause I love ma vidja games.

  6. AvatarSamuraiartguy
    Posted: Nov 20th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
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    [i]If Chrome can run the Photoshop, I will start to give a shit. [/i]

    Hear hear. I spend about 90% of my working day in some Adobe Creative App or another. No Creative Suite? Then Chome is just an oddity for net crawlers and wireheads. Is Adobe going to support Chrome… no frakkin’ idea, but Adobe will sure as F**K wait till it hits critical mass.

    And even WITH my 99.9% uptime Fiber Optic connection. There is NO WAY I am keeping all my electic vitals on the ‘Net. My clients would sue me to a crispy lump if I lost any of their shit.

    B4nz41.

  7. AvatarPeter
    Posted: Nov 20th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
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    I certainly agree with all your points. The whole “everything is stored on the internet” makes sense if you’re just browsing and what not, but if you’re doing anything heavier it gets a bit murky. At the same time at least Google was pretty up front that they were showing a working demo, and that things were bound to change. That’s better than some companies who just peddle us amazing looking demos and then go “but this won’t be in the final release.”
    Still, the idea of a computer/OS designed just for browsing is interesting. Chrome could possibly resurrect many of the older systems people have lying around and put them to some use. But that application question, and the “storage on the internet” is still iffy.

    All in all a fairly decent bit of release information.

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