Chrome OS

interesting,

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

I guess it will be quite viable for people who want to try something different but are scared of linux.

I just read this on BBC

I was just sitting here wondering, 'I wish I knew where minty read about this'.



Whilst I like the idea, and fully understand the concept, I just wonder how relevant it will become. Boot times are way down, users (particularly netbook users, based on my observations of even luddites like my old man using his) don't sit there waiting for boot anymore because they are comfortable with sleeping the OS.
Wake from sleep is near instant these days particularly with Win7.

People who don't want a Linux netbook are going to have the same problem they have now with G-OS....it can't run their Windows apps. THAT is the big barrier to entry. Every Linux netbook I've seen, doesn't run a full Linux desktop out of the box (although they can), they run almost exactly like this will - a handful of great big buttons marked 'Web', 'Email', 'Photos' and 'Music'. G-OS is an extention of that, putting everything in the browser, although I suspect it's going to have very similar features, because that's what people do with their machines.

I think if you're going to provide just a browser, you can do it in something embedded - see the quick boot system ASUS uses in many of their products.

On the subject of Chrome browser. Has anyone found an ad-blocker to run with it? I love the fact that I don't see ads on my FF.

http://www.google.co.nz/search?q=chrome+adblocker

search is hard

I swear, I looked...

Cheers.

Ok, is this a piss take? lol

I followed the link you gave me and there are instructions... First step tells to go to an "official adSweep website" and download the file. When you click on the link, it takes you to a "new and used car buying guide".... wtf?

I think it will sell really well. Amongst the great unwashed (like me), Linux is all "WTF, isn't that like DOS and only for geeks?"
Google = big, trusted brand name for web, email, pictures etc and those looking for cheap netbooks are well in the market.

It probably won't perform any better than Linux but that won't matter for a big chunk of people looking for sub-$1000 netbooks

About every five years someone comes along and re-discovers "cloud computing" (AKA Network terminals). There ias a brief kerfuffle as everyone agrees out loud it a great idea, whilst thinking to themselves "No fucking way I'm letting the boss do that to MY laptop/PC."

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=chrome+adblocker

If they do away with "file in use" when it's not fucking in use (by anything I started) like Windows can't. I'll switch

Thanks bro! I couldn't believe it had that particular instructions.

Anything geared to increasing available and usable screen space would get my attention.

So, higher res netbook screens then?

I'm sure you're the only person to have encountered that in the last 5 years

tend to agree with fishy that these paradigm shifts always just go round and round , however Google might make something happen with it - the network is so much stronger these days, pervasive like its never been before. so yeh interesting.
cloud computing really has been the buzz recently. read an article about the true cost of email in the corporation and know from the inside how many layers of expense there are , and yet if this is just spent on monthly access cost to a provider (Software as a Service notion) it all gets so transparent , with great flexibility (different user requirement easily catered for) , no problems with scalability (up during growth or down in a recession)with no capital outlay. truly a budgeters dream.

well, yeah. Not really up with the play on them now. What res are they getting to?

The new Sony netbook entry (sure they did netbook sized machines before, but they cost like $4k), is packing 1366x768. Others will soon jump to that too.

Modern OS's have a few UI problems at the 600 height most current models hover at, and while 768 doesn't seem like much of a jump, it's _just_ enough.

heh I can't believe you haven't!
I was venting cos a the time I opened a folder and wanted to add a single character to a bunch of folders (manually). Was um, this little italic f thing that I can't do on windows without searching for it in character map, but that's another story... - to signify they were the final versions (PS thread)... Every time I went to change the name it was come up with that error. I discovered that if I went away and browsed the net for a minute and come back they would become free. So it was the OS doing something that shouldn't lock it... Pretty retarded imo.

So some crap software you were using on Windows had locked a file and not released the lock? Why do you blame everything on the OS when much of the time it's just doing what applications are telling it to?

I also never have "file in use" issues...

that's nuts. A quick google shows the Dell Mini 10 has this option too. Chuck a 6 cell battery on that with Windows 7, and I'd be happy. My S10 Lenovo with Win7 does the job at the moment.

Also, since you're the Laptop Guy, I need to upgrade my ageing Dell Inspiron 6400, which is now pushing 3 years old. It's rocking the mint 1650x1080 resolution. Is it just me, or is it harder to find 15.4" widescreen laptops with this res thesedays? Everything seems to be 1366x768 or... 1200 x 800 *shudder*.

Any suggestions?

hmm looks like there might be a few 1920 x 1080 ones around?

http://www.geek.com/laptop-screen-size-resolution/

Okay so 1650 x 1080 might be old technology now. Seems likely.

anyway this thread is about Chrome.

3 reasons:

1. I wasn't using any applications.
2. I've used other OS's were it's not an issue even if the file is in use, so how ever windows does it, isn't as good as it could be.
3. I don't use crap software

i'm sorry smiley, but you're just talking shit now...

Nothing new when it comes to technology. Seems like you life in lala land Smiley

Which part was shit? Or just a general shitness comment designed to shut me down from further argument?
1. You're going to argue that I didn't have other applications open (aside from background processes)?
2. You're going to argue that Windows and Unix OS's work differently in regards to file locking? (You will lose)
3. Your going to take my 3rd comment seriously?

btw, you guys are having me up about a comment that was largely flippant and I was venting at the time. Find something I actually give a fuck about if you want to argue. But true biggie style "I won cos the other party cbf"...

Why would I lose #2? You're very likely to be using NTFS or FAT on Windows, EXT3 on Linux or HFS on OSX, they all do file-locking completely differently?

Sorry if you were arguing that they don't lock differently I meant.

Sometimes windows locks media files while it takes preview and gets the res etc.

Exactly. I don't see how this is good implementation?