Take note, the next generation of netbooks will run a different operating system i.e. the Google Chrome OS. Google plans to launch the Google Chrome OS for netbooks in 2010 and of course in their plan, they will also wanna sweep away Microsoft such as the outdated Windows XP (about 8-year old) and the bad one like Vista etc.
The Google Chrome OS will be super lightweight that runs as fast as what the Google Chrome browser does. In fact the Chrome OS is basically the web as an OS, developers can develop applications for it just as what they would develop on the web, pretty similar to the approach that WebOS for Palm Pre takes. Google says the architecture of this Chrome OS will basically be the current Chrome browser running inside “a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.” And some more it’ll be open-sourced like the web browser.
Google Chrome OS is able to run on both the x86 architecture chips and ARM chips, the one increasingly found in netbooks. Perhaps, there is an overlap between Android and the new Google Chrome OS. But the obvious difference is Android does not run on x86 architecture, while Chrome OS does.
via techcrunch
November 27th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
[...] Google Chrome OS is a web-centric operating system, which every application will be web-based and launch in a [...]
June 22nd, 2011 at 3:54 pm
Too bad their pricing model is downright stupid. Why would anyone in their right mind pay more for less? A Chromebook runs the same hardward as a regular netbook, but can’t print, connect to peripherals worth a darn, can’t run real apps and is simply another overpriced internet appliance device. FAIL.
For the same price or less, you can buy a real netbook that runs Windows 7 and if you need a fast bootup time, you can use a dual boot to something like splashtop OS….seriously flawed model. Don’t get burned by this dog.