Comments on: Big Winner in the Google Chrome OS News: Smartbooks

By: Ashwin, India

Ashwin, India — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:27:37 +0000

Too many skeptics. For once guys, can you not be excited that some large corporation is taking a shot at a market which has been a monopoly for almost 15 years?

By: Jonathan Cohen

Jonathan Cohen — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:46:38 +0000

If it can run on the SmartQ 5 and SmartQ 7, we’ll have two great low-cost options.

By: Krishna Santani

Krishna Santani — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:42:09 +0000

Its groundbreaking idea from Google web OS and they are planning to wipe out Windows in a most strategic manner. Google clearly pointing to Microsoft when they say “The operating systems that browsers run were designed in an era where there was no web”. But there are few questions which are unanswered like what will happen when we will go offline in Chrome OS? Can we use offline applications like iTunes or Photoshop? Can we run third party applications? How they are going to make profit from it ? I am also bit concerned whether Chrome OS will be embraced by enterprises as it is open source and web based as there is always a security issue….Just wait another thought can Chrome OS will become a global hit especially in small countries where internet is very fickle. But leaving these things aside its going to be win-win situation for the users and it will be interesting to witness the war between giants.

By: Corrupted Mind

Corrupted Mind — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:12:13 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this all day and I’m not impressed. Basically, Google have announced their version of Moblin. I didn’t go wild about Moblin. Google’s experience of launching new software products has never been flawless (exhibit a. see Android). Netbooks are a good place to start as they are as static a specification that you can find outside of Mac’s but I’m not confident this will end well.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:43:30 +0000

If this Chrome OS runs the same as Chrome, the whole project is doomed for failure.