Comments on: The Huge Letdown Of Google Chrome OS

By: scaredof

scaredof — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:11:18 +0000

Wouldn't this be completely ideal for a tablet? If I had a tablet it would be for just running a fast browser and some simple apps (nothing that couldn't happily be a web app).

By: Michael Lankton

Michael Lankton — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:59:21 +0000

It's my day off, and I just finished playing with Chromium in VirtualBox. It's even worse than I thought. I wasn't kidding when I said that Chrome OS is the bare minimum required to boot your hardware and run Chrome. That's all there is. It's the Chrome web browser. Period. Have a nice day.
What a joke. I hope this thing tanks. I would so much rather run Android OS on a tablet or netbook than this garbage.

By: Michael Lankton

Michael Lankton — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:57:25 +0000

The idea of a slimmed down linux running a proprietary windowing system was attractive. It would have had none of the baggage of X, and promised fast performance on a wide range of hardware. I think that's what had us all interested, we were just expecting a more conventional os.

If Chrome's target is netbooks, I think they made a bad guess at where people were going to go. I think people will embrace tablets in a way that they will never embrace the netbook.

By: Rob O'Daniel

Rob O'Daniel — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:45:04 +0000

I had trouble understanding all of the hype months ago.

Giving it more than a fleeting moment of analysis, it was easy to forsee that Chrome OS would be simply be a minimal Linux variant used to support the Chrome browser. And you could already do that with Firefox & any of a fistfull of Linux distros long before anyone had ever heard of Chrome – the browser or OS.

A happens so often, everyone just got swept up in the media frenxy and now the enevitable post-hype letdown is settling in.

By: Stevie

Stevie — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:33:43 +0000

It does look like a huge let down. It's like buying a Netpliance (http://www.targetpc.com/hardware/internet_appli...). If I wanted to do nothing but browse the web, I would have got a WebTV. Do they even make those any more? Probably not, because no one wanted a device that's only purpose was to get on the web.