The hype machine has never been spinning this fast. With Google’s announcement of Chrome OS, people are claiming that this is yeat another step for Google to dominate your every day life. What’s next, Google Toilet paper. That will never happen!
Update: I stand corrected: Google Toilet Paper
Pushing the hype to the side, What Is Google Chrome OS??
From what we can tell right now, Chrome OS is a new light weight operating system targeted at the web and constructed to run on SSD (Solid State Drive) netbooks. Like Chrome (the browser) Chrome OS is designed to strip out all of the clutter and unnecessary processes that come standard with a normal machine and create a streamlined bare-bones environment. That cuts the boot time to a remarkable 7-10 seconds. So in basically 20 seconds (logging in) your ready to type in any url you please. Compare that to even a fast booting Mac: 20 seconds in, i still have a grey screen with an Apple logo.
Drinking the Koolaid, I decided to try out this revolutionary new product myself. The cool guys at GDGT have a download link posted and some instructions on how to get this thing up and running here.
Download the file and drop it Virtual Box (or VM Ware Fusion on Mac) and you’ve just successfully installed Chrome OS on your computer. It was that easy. (if you have an Easy Button, hit it now)
My synopsis: It’s slow. Yes, it is running in a VM, and i had a video streaming in the background, and it’s an early (VERY) dev build, but it’s still sluggish. Maybe I’m being a little to hard on the new Google Baby. Nah. Now that I’m on a roll, the things pretty ugly too. If Google want’s this thing to succeed, they need to at least pretend like they hired a capable designer to pretty it up.
Once you have it running, we want to hear your opinoin:
What do you think of Google Chrome OS?
(and the real question on everyones mind) What makes this different from Android?
Tags: Boot Camp, chrome, Cromium, Google, Google Chrome OS, Linux, OS, Toilet Paper, Virtual Machine, VM Ware Fusion
