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Will Google launch Chrome OS next week?
SEARCH GIANT Google's much anticipated operating system, Chrome OS, will downloadable from next week, according to Internet rumours.
The bad news is that although Google said it has been working with Acer, Adobe, Asus, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Toshiba on its Chrome OS, apparently only a limited number of devices will support it initially.
The current rumours circulated by TechCrunch pinpoint a lack of support for basic hardware components like network interfaces and graphics cards. So you won't be able to download Chrome OS and run it on just any machine.
Google originally said that the netbooks to run it wouldn't be available for consumers until the second half of 2010. But the code could well be open sourced in the coming weeks as promised on the Google Chrome Blog.
It also appears that the Chrome web browser - not the Chrome OS even though it does, quite confusingly, share the same name - will be coming to Apple machines in December. In a mailout to developers, Nick Baum, the Chrome browser project manager, has announced that a Beta version of Chrome 4.0, which will only be available for the Windows and Linux operating systems at first, will be out on Apple Macs in a few weeks.
Google launched its Chrome browser as an early development release in 2008 and it's still experimental. µ
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You want facts? "what if your browser was your operating system. new OS no kernel, no all.... BIOS was redesigned?"
It's like they made a mobile OS and applied in a computer
See the Chrome's detailed review: http://bit.ly/google-chrome-os-best-or-worst-judge-it
Sounds promising, but only for my netbook.. there's no way in hell I will use this for my desktop (just in case BIG G decided to used this on PC in the future)
Use firefox and flash-block problem solved.
One that still uses IE is rather dumb :-)
hopefully chrome turns out to be a great success, they are doing a great job with android OS for phones, it would be great to finally have a competitive OS for the home...
yeah, yeah, yeah dont go there MACies, mac has been trying and failing for decades, so its never gonna happen
Like I need another o/s esp from a Microsoft equivalent.
And ... what ads? I'm using Opera, don't need adblock with my configuration.
I would love to see vendors start coming out with Linux certified hardware. be it Chrome, Debian or Ubuntu. If it works on one distro it would not be hard to use another.
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Since apple is a more closed platform with predictable hardware I wouldnt be surprised if the OS would have been set to work on Apple machines more than PC. Just match the hardware along the lines of Apple hardware and you cover two lines of product with one OS.
All this time, I thought this website catered to people who knew how to operate a computer.
I guess I was wrong.
You heard of adblock plus?
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