Keeping Google's Consumer OS Options Straight 97
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from the who-would-ever-want-local-storage dept.
from the who-would-ever-want-local-storage dept.
According to Engadget, among others, Google is expected to show off the state of the Chrome OS on Tuesday of this week, and perhaps even to show off a netbook running the cloud-centric system. Since many of the things that Chrome OS does are also within the scope of Google's other consumer OS, Android, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has written a guide to the differences, as he sees them, between Android and Chrome OS.
Re:Why Chrome OS now? (Score:3, Informative)
Single signon to google apps in thirty seconds from cold boot.
Re:Just putting my 2 cents in (Score:4, Informative)
Isn't Windows XP licensed for netbooks at around $40? I doubt you will see much of a price decrease.
There could be other factors like reduced need for local storage, (maybe) running better on a lower spec. processor and with less memory.
Re:Straight (Score:5, Informative)
Substantially more architectural difference.