Comments on: Chrome OS: Worth your time?

By: Adam Brooks

Adam Brooks — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:54:23 +0000

I have tried using Chrome OS in one of my desktop PC’s, the overall performance is above average to excellent -

By: Marc Henessy

Marc Henessy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:51:24 +0000

i installed Chrome OS on two of my netbooks. the Chrome OS works great and its loading time is very fast too.

By: Techno Girl

Techno Girl — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:46:59 +0000

I have installed Chrome OS on one of my netbooks and the performance of Chrome OS is just okay. there is nothing fancy or very special about it. It was just a sort of GUI version of linux or something.
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By: Paul Mackenzie

Paul Mackenzie — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:22:31 +0000

This little laptop is all I could have asked for and THEN some! The only thing I would change is to give it 2Gb RAM from the factory, and it would be practically perfect (at least in my opinion)! The hot port is great as I travel quite a bit and I never have to carry anything more than my smartphone’s USB cable as this jewel will charge the phone even if the laptop is off! I love the range of the wireless adapter and the application which allows me to view all available networks in a “radar” type view. I also love the fact that there is a “drop” sensor which parks the heads of the HDD if the laptop detects a drop or shock (of course, the sensitivity has to be adjusted, or it will park the heads every time it is picked up or set onto a hard surface.) Perhaps the most incredible thing about this laptop however, is the battery life. I have tested it in a normal workday environment and found the battery life to be right about 9 HOURS!!! This is great for those of us who are “Road Warriors” and spend a lot

By: Connor

Connor — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:24:27 +0000

Hey, it’s not for everybody.
Google is focusing on mostly Netbook users, who would not be able to play any games on their machines, anyway. (Not anything that’s recent, at all, anyway.)

As for other applications, they’re trying to cover up with web apps, which are actually incredibly useful and could, in time, replace a lot of the applications on one’s hard-drive and putting that information in the cloud.

But again, it’s not for everyone. I, for one, know that I’ve got apps that I depend on, and Chrome OS will not work for my day-to-day. But if I had a netbook? Yes. I would definitely use Chrome OS. Without a doubt.

By: James

James — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:12:11 +0000

Doesnt it seem like building an OS that cant run any programs is a little pointless. I dont JUST brows the web…I play video games…that are on my Harddrive…which is also unsupported…hmm the more i think of it the less i like it…

By: Connor

Connor — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:43:30 +0000

@AC
I’m fairly sure I actually saw a video of an SD card having files taken off and put on, in Chrome OS. Looks like you’re safe there.

By: Jafar

Jafar — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:53:19 +0000

Very interesting. I wanna try it.

By: AC

AC — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:00:30 +0000

Does anyone know if Chrome OS will allow you to save anything locally (say to a SD card or to a USB memory stick)? I’m sort of curious – if I can do this, I want one (a Chrome OS system) – and if it can’t save anything locally somebody at Google needs a couple of good swift kicks.

P.S. – Chrome OS reminds me of Sun’s Sun Ray system.