Comments on: Giz Explains: What The Hell’s Google Chrome OS? http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/07/giz-explains-what-the-hells-google-chrome-os/ the Gadget Guide | Technology and consumer electronics news and reviews Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:23:20 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Bob Hepple http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/07/giz-explains-what-the-hells-google-chrome-os/comment-page-1/#comment-23242 Bob Hepple Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:17:24 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/?p=340774#comment-23242 Kieran, Get yourself a Kogan Agora - 10" screen, 160Gb, 1Gb the usual for A$500 - that's maybe US$400. It came with a nice Ubuntu gOS interface (which I promptly dumped for fluxbox but that's another story). Works for me! What for Google Chrome OS? unless it maybe runs on slighter configuration - but the Android netbooks tend to be 128Mb and ARM processors. So it's "me too - I don't get it" yet - I have the distinct feeling we're lacking the critical bit of information on this to make sense of it. Bob Kieran,

Get yourself a Kogan Agora – 10″ screen, 160Gb, 1Gb the usual for A$500 – that’s maybe US$400. It came with a nice Ubuntu gOS interface (which I promptly dumped for fluxbox but that’s another story). Works for me!

What for Google Chrome OS? unless it maybe runs on slighter configuration – but the Android netbooks tend to be 128Mb and ARM processors. So it’s “me too – I don’t get it” yet – I have the distinct feeling we’re lacking the critical bit of information on this to make sense of it.

Bob

]]> By: Kieran Cummings http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2009/07/giz-explains-what-the-hells-google-chrome-os/comment-page-1/#comment-23209 Kieran Cummings Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:11:32 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/?p=340774#comment-23209 This is an interesting concept. I've been spending a lot of time soul searching for the perfect netbook & os combination, yet have found little that does everything I need, and nothing I don't. I recently sold my EEEPC 701 because it was, among other things, too small. I've looked at the 10" models (not just ASUS), and they all seem rather clunky for a light weight book. Then there's the OS, Windows is a no-go, as I don't want to have to run all the security apps you would normally run in Windows just to view emails and browse (plus I'm a bit of a Windows hater), Mac OS doesn't run properly on single core processors, and the netbook versions of Linux (EasyPeasy and the like) have terrible interfaces. If Google can pull this off it will not only be good for them, but I'd suspect they'll have a hard time getting any market share with Windows 7 on netbooks. This is an interesting concept. I’ve been spending a lot of time soul searching for the perfect netbook & os combination, yet have found little that does everything I need, and nothing I don’t.

I recently sold my EEEPC 701 because it was, among other things, too small. I’ve looked at the 10″ models (not just ASUS), and they all seem rather clunky for a light weight book. Then there’s the OS, Windows is a no-go, as I don’t want to have to run all the security apps you would normally run in Windows just to view emails and browse (plus I’m a bit of a Windows hater), Mac OS doesn’t run properly on single core processors, and the netbook versions of Linux (EasyPeasy and the like) have terrible interfaces.

If Google can pull this off it will not only be good for them, but I’d suspect they’ll have a hard time getting any market share with Windows 7 on netbooks.

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