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Google Chrome OS - What it Is and Isn't
Ricardo TrejoI really enjoyed that video. It sums up the average PC user fairly well. Well, anyway... Now that you have what Google has in mind for their OS, let's run down the usual suspects:
How much does it cost? What can you expect? What does it look like? When will it be available?
Find out after the break!
So first thing's first - how much will Google' OS cost? To be blunt: nothing. Yup, it's free. It's open source, so any of you developers want to jump at the opportunity, you should.
What makes it different from let's say the freshly released Windows 7. Well, it's trying to make you move your entire house to the cloud, so to speak. People have been a bit hesitant on relying on the internet to keep their data safe - opting for physical drives on their local machine or on a USB device -but everywhere you look, the cloud is where it's all heading anyway.
It's mainly for netbooks, which makes perfect sense. These little guys aren't really made for doing much work, or installing native applications - using the inter-'net' is the basis for these netbooks anyway. And with Chrome OS, it makes boot times less than 10 seconds and does away with all the background stuff that usually goes into booting and keeping an OS steady, or at least doesn't make you sit through and watch as it does.
Keeping it simple is the name of the game. A simple UI that'll take advantage of everything the current Web 2.0 internet has to offer; streaming music, movies, and accessing documents and emails will be its bread butter, and all without having to open anything but a web browser.
Hardware? As far we know it'll only be available on Google approved machines, as it won't be compatible with Hard Drives - only Solid State's. Also, just to point out, if you don't have access to the internet, then well you're screwed.
When to look out for it? It'll be available sometime in 2010
A few more videos of the press event:
