Key Features Of Chrome OS

There is SO much information floating around about Chrome OS right now I bet you wish you could just have it boiled down into some nice bullet points. Right? Obviously… and that is exactly what Kevin Tofel from jkOnTheRun did, reproduced below:

■Every application in Chrome OS will be a web-based application — there won’t be any local apps installed
■You can pin shortcuts to apps in the browser
■Fast boot times (under 7 seconds) will be partially due to the light environment, but also due to the requirement for Solid State Disk storage
■No mention of smartbooks; Chrome OS looks targeted solely for netbooks
■Support for X86 and ARM, so there’s still hope for smartbooks running Chrome OS
■All Google apps you see today will look and behave exactly the same in Chrome OS
■Android apps will not be compatible — remember, no local apps installed.
■Google will actually sell the netbook hardware work with partners on the hardware that runs the operating system
■Main use case for Chrome OS requires connectivity, such as Wi-Fi. Google is planning for 802.11n support
■Chrome OS devices aren’t intended to be your primary machine. Google assumes you have a second computer at home or work
■Google was coy on device pricing but said to expect prices that customers are used to today. I take that to be around $300 to $400
■Local user data is simply stored in a cache. The book of record for your data will be on Google’s servers
■You won’t need a Chrome OS machine to use it. Most all of the Chrome OS features will be baked into the Chrome browser.
■Interesting approach to security: “Chrome OS barely trusts itself. Every time you restart your computer the operating system verifies the integrity of its code. If your system has been compromised, it is designed to fix itself with a reboot.”
When you put it in perspective, that this is NOT meant to replace your existing computer and instead be more of a companion web browsing machine, it makes a LOT more sense in the grand scheme of things. Unfortunately, it will take some molding of the modern minds to get consumers to buy into this philosophy. I mean, I might just have some Chrome Netbooks laying around my house like magazines.

One in the kitchen… one in the family room… one in the bathroom, obviously hehe…

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