May  13th.  2011
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Chrome Books - My Perspective

Google has recently announced they’ll be selling Chrome Books through Samsung and Acer.

I don’t think the chrome books will be a hit at all. 

Chrome OS was a cool idea… 2 years ago. Since then, netbooks have rapidly been dying out because of full featured laptops costing around the same as netbooks, e.g. $500-$600, and another factor is the tablet craze.

So here comes the chrome books, when netbooks are dying, and tablets arereining supreme, and it wants to sell you a netbook that the whole operating system is the Chrome browser. 

Lol? Just get a tablet, open the browser, and you got the same thing. Buy a netbook for 99kd, open chrome browser and you got the same thing, plus you have microsoft word and other windows apps with the netbook. 

As for the 8 second boot time, buy and install a SSD on a netbook and you’ll achieve the same thing. Instant on from sleep? My windows laptop already does that, and so does 90% of the laptops on the market today. 

Chrome books will be a complete failure. 

Though I must say that Samsung chrome book looks pretty nice, and it has a 12 inch screen instead of a 10 inch, which I like, but, it only has a chrome browser on it so whats the point.

  1. yq8 posted this