Acer and Samsung will soon be distributing Note(Net)Book PCs with the "Google Chrome O.S." installed.
What!!! No Windows!!! Yep.
Sounds like a great idea if you have a desktop as well (running Linux of course) for all your personal stuff you don't want to store online. I was going to get a tablet soon but I'll consider one of these for sure for daily web browsing duties.
Thats nothing new, Acer have been distributing an alternative called ubuntu, except unlike googles, it doesn't require the internet. All free, and like mac s no real virus issues coz its linux.
After spending three hours today tracking down a very strange bug in a flash slideshow component, that only affected Internet Explorer...
... and the default browser in a cheap netbook is something other than IE...
... it has my full support
It looks like a great idea. I have nearly the same functions on my ipad. I use my ipad for 95% of my web browsing, music, photos etc. But chrome os, looks like it will give my ipad a run for its money
I've got Ubuntu on my desktop and I'm barely computer literate compared to an IT geek. There are no Microsoft products in our house
I understand all the Microsoft hating but honestly Windows7 is the best, most stable operating system I have ever used. It's setup such that even a half wit can plug in almost any peripheral device in and it will work or help you to make it work, this is far from the case with ANY current distro of linux. Sure M$ have had a bit of a checkered history (vista lol) but you can't deny that XPSP3 and Win7 are damn good.
Linux is all fine and dandy and for specific things it is no doubt superior but at this stage there is no distro that comes close to being the plug and play, any idiot can use it style of operating system that Win7 and Safari are.
If you're a bit of a technofile and just want a box to run a media server and download a few tv shows, linux is your OS, but if you're serious about gaming or a majority of the worlds software you need a Windows machine; end of story.
While I am going nuts on posting, I have to mention that I bought a cheap eMachine netbook a few months ago for about $250. It came with windows7, and I also installed Ubuntu as well.
With an external keyboard, and screen, its hard to understand why you would need any other PC, although I have to admit its not grunty and would be useless for games. As far as power usage and meeting the requirements of being used as a browser, its excellent value for money. The other advantages are that its compact and at such a low cost, not so much of a problem if it gets lost.
No computer geek but I use Linux Mint 9,similar or actually based on Ubuntu I think ,but a little more easy to use.Only a few minor issues ,but fast,free,and like most Linux has a good support network.
I tried installing "chrome" on my laptop
, following all instruction precisly snd my laptop froze.
Took me over 6 hours to get it to where I could go to a created restart point.
I'll wait until I need a new 'puter before I go down that path again!@#$@%
download the Chrome browser, fire it up, maximize the window and don't do anything that can't be done through the browser (i.e don't run any app, access the HDD etc..) and congratulations you have a Chrome netbook.
A bit OT but can one of you computer-savvy blokes explain something for me.
I think I understand what Linux is. And one of the main benefits of Linux over Windows that everyone seems to harp on about is the absence of viruses. So why does Linux not have viruses? Is it because there's some fundamental difference in the way it works compared to Windows that makes viruses not work? Or is it just because such a small proportion of users are on Linux that it's not worth virus makers making viruses for it?
If it's the latter, why does everyone who uses Linux keep trying to convert everyone else over to it? Won't that just ruin it by attracting the virus makers? Wouldn't you be better of shutting up about it? A bit like kite/wind surfers not trying to get everyone else into the sport because it'll stuff it up for those already into it by overcrowding everywhere?
So many questions!!
I hate Qantas.
I have to work with unix at work, and as much as i hate it, lots of people still say its fantastic so I did a bit of research, read good things and then tried ubuntu on my home PC. What a load of ****. Had no end of dramas, ubuntu was crap useless crap, i went to uninstall it and broke my windows partition - PC unbootable. Had to download a windows recovery disk and fix stuff up - all in all a bad experience, I will never try linux again.
I did another search for ubuntu on google - but this time homing in on all the bad reviews... this one sums it up nicely:
"Imagine that Linux and Ubuntu and all those variations of that crappy OS are
FREE for the taking. You would think that everyone would rush to install
Ubuntu and ditch Windows. Tell you what. It isn't happening.
The reason is that people are all gung-ho on the concept of free software
and open source. Once they realize that it's ****, they quickly remove that
crappy software from their PC's and go back to a real solution. Microsoft
Windows.
Remeber Ubuntu is FREE and Linux is FREE and still NOBODY wants it. That
should tell you all you need to know about that piece of **** software."