[PLUG] New Google Employees Not Allowed on Windows

[Aaron Baer]

there will be local content storage.

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience/content-browser

<http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience/content-browser>
http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience/shelf

<http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience/shelf>
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Aaron Baer
aaron at slyness.org
http://www.slyness.org/


On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Michael Moore <moore.michael.m at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Fred James <fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Is anyone using Chromium?  Thoughts?  Well, one from me ... nothing is
> > store on your computer ... so your computer becomes a thin client,
> > right?  So they glossed over where stuff is stored in the videos, but
> > the answer is, of course, on someone else's computer, right?  You comfy
> > with that?  All kind of warm and fuzzy?  I'd be very interested in your
> > thoughts/feelings (Disclaimer:  I am in no way associated with MS or G,
> > of Apple for that matter, and I don't make a living from any of these,
> > or even from Linux/Unix (anymore).)
>
> I don't see much point to Chrome/Chromium unless it brings along with
> it different, more flexible hardware (and I don't know what that might
> look like) or more-or-less the same hardware available now (like
> netbooks) at considerably reduced prices.  I don't see the point of
> installing Chromium on an existing computer, since I don't see the
> point of limiting the functionality of existing hardware.  If you have
> a netbook with a 160gb hard drive, why would you install an operating
> system on it that is designed not to take advantage of that?  If, on
> the other hand, newfangled netbooks or pad-like devices with
> solid-state drives hit the retail market for $50 preloaded with
> Chromium, then I might be interested.
>
> You can pretty much do everything that Chromium promises now, if you
> want to, whatever OS you're using.  So the only benefit to an OS that
> is limited to what Chromium promises is that somehow it will be a
> better value proposition for the consumer.  I'm not sure even Google
> can pull that off.
>
> Michael M.
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