Posts tagged with google-chrome-os

Google Chrome OS to work with a multitude of devices

Posted on February 3, 2010 8:29 AM

It seems as though Google's Chrome OS won't see limited functionality to just netbooks and even tablets, but has the ultimate vision to run on low-power computers - we're talking about other platforms including large screen displays, projectors and notebooks. Of course, with various platforms running Chrome OS in the future, this can only mean one thing - interacting within the OS' environment will be very different due to the vastly contrasting natures of selected devices, where some come with smaller displays while others have different form factors and user input capability. Well, we're more interested to see how the Chrome OS performs on netbooks first before even thinking about how it fares on other platforms.

ARM loves Google OS

Posted on November 24, 2009 7:38 PM

I just read an upbeat post about Chrome OS from Bob Morris, the director of Mobile computing at ARM. Here's an excerpt:

It truly levels the playing field for platforms. For the most part today, the OS and HW are closely connected and this drove platforms that slowly innovated. Chrome OS blows this apart, the OS is the browser, which makes the hw irrelevant since applications are written in HTML5 and JavaScript they run on the browser without hw ties. Wow … coming from a company that builds CPUs that should worry me … NOT! (read more)

I understand why Bob Morris is excited about Chrome: today, Windows has 92.64% of market share and it doesn't run on ARM. Mac OS X doesn't run on ARM either (update: I'm thinking about "desktop" Mac OS), and what that means is that ARM is currently locked out of a huge chunk of the computing experience. The company hopes that Chrome will make the OS completely transparent to end-users. Why is he not worried? ARM has absolutely nothing to lose with Chrome OS.

Google Chrome OS, What's New?

Posted on November 19, 2009 1:26 PM

Google has provided more details about its upcoming Google Chrome OS. If you missed the boat, Chrome OS is a stripped-down Linux that should boot quickly and launch a browser (Chrome). From there, everything that you do is web-based. In short, it's a fancy way of launching a browser, but there's more...

Distribution and hardware: You and I can't download Chrome and install it, apparently (technically, you can still get the source and compile it - it's open). Users will have to buy a Chrome OS machine. I suppose that Google *has to* do that because their currently don't have a driver SDK, and therefore can't let 3rd party hardware vendors write drivers. This would mean that most devices would share fairly similar specifications. The competition should make them cheap to buy, but not much cheaper than today's Netbooks, which are as cheap as can be. Chrome will run on Intel and ARM processors.

Google Chrome OS slated for Thursday event

Posted on November 18, 2009 6:44 AM

Looks like tomorrow is set to be a big day as Google will most probably preview its Chrome OS at a special event held at its headquarters in Mountain View, California. Apart from providing some technical background information while parading demos of the Chrome OS, attendees will also benefit from a complete overview. Guess the Chrome OS is not quite yet ready for prime time action at the moment - we could be looking at a 2010 release date.

Google Chrome OS to launch within the week

Posted on November 13, 2009 6:26 AM

Google's Chrome first made an appearance as a speedy Web browser, and while it won't take on IE like how Firefox has done, Google has further enhanced the brand name by announced a Chrome OS recently. Word has it that the software will launch within a week, and it can be presumed that this build will only work on a bunch of selected devices that Google engineers have managed to play with so far.

Tegra Netbook running Google Chrome OS?

Posted on September 1, 2009 3:00 PM

There's a rumor about upcoming Tegra-powered netbooks that would run on Google's Chrome OS. The surprising part is that they would appear as early as this month. It is strange because the Google OS was not scheduled to be ready until 2010...

Also, NVIDIA has not been pushing Linux and Tegra as a duo recently, although when I did talk to Mike Rayfield before Computex, he did not rule out the idea of having an Android-powered Tegra device. It's just that Nvidia seemed very focused on Windows CE, the OS behind the Zune HD. To shine, Tegra needs support for: HD video decode, Flash, 3D graphics. In the short term, only Flash would be plausible on Google's OS. That said, Tegra can also be utilized only for its small power envelope. [via Shanzai]

Google Chrome OS, Beyond The Hype

Posted on July 8, 2009 11:49 AM

By Hubert Nguyen and Eliane Fiolet

You're probably blind if you have not seen the news that Google is launching Google Chrome OS next year. The product will be based on Linux (what else?) and will focus on speed, simplicity and security. Basically, Google will boot on Linux and launch its Chrome web browser.

Besides the fact that if any other company was doing this and call it an Operating System everybody would laugh, let's look at a few things.

What's the value proposition from Google?
What are their advantages for success?
Who are they targeting?
Can they "kill" Windows and Mac OS?
What is the likely outcome?

Value Proposition

Fundamentally, Google says that it can get users to the web faster and use less resources (understand cheaper computers) in the process. From there, "applications" are just regular web sites that you and us already use today (GMail, Google Docs, and non-Google sites). The one-liner would be "everything in the cloud".

Despite all the buzz, this is not really a new value proposition: most Linux-based Netbooks already do that. They require less memory, boot faster than Windows and use less memory and storage. You can also run Chrome or Firefox on them. Even Windows CE in a Netbook and a good web browser could achieve that goal.