Comments on: Google Releases Chrome Web Browser OS

By: rahul

rahul — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:01:58 +0000

Why MS don’t able to built a virus free OS.I assume that they are getting more money from updates and by solving virus problems.

Well I need Internet with Google.
Other time MS is Only Option for me.
As I don’t have all day night Broadband.Broadband Speed is also a issue.I think Broadband price will increse if G OS get success.

By: Clint Maher

Clint Maher — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:09:42 +0000

Just heard the great news, I would like to say it was nice knowing you Microsoft, although I would be telling lies…

By: Lori Brown

Lori Brown — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:37:29 +0000

So I was thinking about getting a mini notebook to be more transportable but now I’ll wait til the new Google ones come out. Sounds like exactly what I need to just keep in touch and browse while I’m traveling. Very excited to see what apps will be ported to it – I’m sure we’ll have a lot very quickly after it comes out.

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:37:52 +0000

@Chris;

Thanks for the reply.

I see where you are coming from. I never really thought about the people who just come on the computer for the internet — but then again I didn’t really know much about Google OS at the time.

I just think we don’t really need another OS. Linux, Mac and Windows. They’ve all got their different purposes.

Windows: For gamers, people who need software for their computing needs, and for 1st time buyers.

Mac: For professionals, people who want a machine for work, word processing, and looking cool.

Linux: People who don’t need much for their comouter — just the basics (internet, word processing etc.)

Google: Basically Linux, but with a price tag?

I’m still not quite sure about Google OS. But thanks for the reply,

Keith.

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By: Rocque

Rocque — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:54:32 +0000

Hiya Chris,
Yet another great post. MS has had the monopoly for years now. Ok, I won’t sell Apple out, but they have definitely done a great job with the Ipods and Iphones. Plus Apple/Mac users are extremely loyal.
Linux users are too smart to even talk to, I am not on their techie level, but they brag of a virus free OS. I have never attempted to use it although with the way I surf the net I have been tempted to several times.
I am always interested in what the big G little oo big G l e (sung to the tune of Oklahoma) is doing, and you are my best source of information.

We have Google docs, Google pages, adwords, adsense, friend connect, friend feed, and more. They have everything we need, and then when it can be at a price we can afford is incredible. If they can have the Google phone why not have an OS?

Google for President! They can run a world.

By: Chris Lang

Chris Lang — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:37:47 +0000

@Keith,

Yours is the perfect comment for a response I have been saving.

I have a little different view of how real people use the Internet. Here goes…

My best friends are a plumber and a commercial electrician. They are working class guys just like me and make a good living.

They aren’t tech geeks like me but they are Internet junkies.

They use the browser almost exclusively for everything they see and do on the Internet.

Us tech guys are too close to the flame, we need the big OS for the software that is made for it. I still have to boot Window (W2K BTW) to run video editing apps.

My buddies use online email, videos on YouTube, social sites, personal blogs on Sports and they use Picasa or Flickr to share their pictures they take at the Diamondbacks games we all go to. They use social sites to make new friends and meet women.

Almost 100% usage thru the browser.

This is all most Internet users need, a fast, stable OS that is easy to use, stable and best of all free.

Hence most online users will eventually do the same. They don’t need 4 Gigs of RAM, a Qaud Core processor, a $2000 machine that gets clogged up with spyware and viruses from surfing porn (most popular activity on the web) and inflate the purchase price of the machine due to a Windows license.

For $300 I put machines together for them both out of the parts of the last machine they had and boot it with Ubuntu.

They get online easily, cheaply and for WAY cheap. That is why the Google OS will become widely adopted:

When you look at a Windows machine at the cheapest, eMachine junk at Walmart and realize half the $399 price is Windows licensing and hardware to run it AND you don’t need it, then things change rapidly.

Then you look at the Google ready Linux desktop right next to it that blows that eMachine junk away with a great video card and a 19 inch monitor for $297. Now do you get the power of the thing?

It will be the price factor that will bring adoption. The first step is netbooks that can’t run the new versions of Vista and soon Windows 7. That is where Google is starting, Netbooks. Take out the Windows OS price and you can build a kick ass Netbook and sell it for $150.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:20:09 +0000

Nice post.

I sure hope Goooogle doesn’t fuck up the OS world. Mac/Linux/Windows are plenty to choose from. The big’in (windows), the shit’in (linux) and the pricey’in (mac). What’s Google gonna be? The ignorant’in?

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:56 +0000

Hey Chris, can I play Sim 3 or Call of Duty on this new OS?

Chris Lang: Nope but that is not what it is for. But that is not the fault of the OS, that is dependent on the video game software maker, they simply don’t code it for Linux.

But then I don’t play video games, I make my living online. When I am done with work I should not be in front of a glowing screen. - Chris

By: Anissa

Anissa — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:54:32 +0000

I agree with Jim, although I do use google for many things, I do not want them taking over the world. Also, I like Windows. Do I like all the issues associated with it? No, but, then again, I would love to go back to the days of WordPerfect too. After 10 or more years and daily working with Word, I still hate it and would prefer WordPerfect.

I don’t give full allegiance to any one brand or put all my eggs in one basket. I have serious issues with Google having all my information. I don’t want confidential info in their hands.

I think all your research and working with GFC is going to be very useful to those who are looking for a different solution. You definitely are ahead of the curve, and its interesting to hear your take on all this.

Great info, too bad I am not into it.