Thursday, December 9, 2010

New Google Operating Systems

Computers now a days usually only come with either Windows Operating Systems or Apple operating systems. Tomorrow Google will show case their own operating system. Google hopes to create Chrome OS Netbooks which would create a lightweight browser-based operating system. This sort of system would run just Web applications instead of native ones. This sort of technology has some benefits and some cons to it. One of the benefits is that it should provide rather quick Internet access, it would allow for people to run web applications faster than other Operating Systems because it shouldn’t be bogged down by the usual native applications that would normally run in the background. There are quite a few cons to this sort of Operating System though, one of the main things being that it only allows people to browser the internet and use web applications. If a consumer wants something that lets you install and play games, they would have to go with a different computer. Another con would be that most likely you would only be able to use Google’s chrome browser, which is a good browser but it limits what the user may want to browse with. And we have yet to see what this operating system has to offer, so most of this is just speculation but it will be interesting to see what Google has to offer. In short most consumers would probably stay away from this sort of netbook unless they are just looking for something to browse the web with, I for certain won’t be getting this netbook or operating system.

1 comment:

  1. A Google-powered netbook certainly sounds interesting, although I need a full operating system.

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