May 17, 2012
Google’s launch of Chrome OS was one of 2011’s most disappointing moments. Perhaps the biggest disappointment of Chrome OS was its performance. Since then, Google has been gradually updating Chrome OS. The user experience has improved significantly. Here are five reasons to go back and give it another go.
January 11, 2012
Google’s Chrome OS is ambitious. Too ambitious. The concept of booting to a web browser is an enticing one, but Google hasn’t pulled it off well enough. Offline support is incomplete at best, the Chrome Web Store pales in comparison to other app stores and Chrome OS is on a collision course with Windows 8. Chrome OS will fail – not by going down in flames, but by being quietly folded into Android.
December 31, 2011
Like this idea of Chrome OS, but don’t want to fork out money for a ChromeBook? Good news! Chromium Lime brings the Chrome OS experience to a huge number of laptops and netbooks, thanks to a wide variety of drivers added by developer Hexxeh.
November 24, 2011
This past summer, two Chromebooks were released, and then not much happened. The Acer and Samsung models, neither of which was considered great value for money, toiled on without any major hardware or software updates. Even Google preferred to stay silent. There’s nothing like a holiday shopping season to lower prices, however.
June 9, 2011
Our mission is to write more about what you can do online than what you can do with your computer offline. As time goes on however, the line between the two is increasingly hard to define. If you embrace this wholeheartedly, you might want to take some active steps to blur the web and the desktop. Let’s take a look at some ways of doing so – some simple, some complex.
March 27, 2011
SplashTop, the company behind the instant-on operating system features of many current netbooks has recently released their Chromium-based complementary netbook OS for anyone to install. It’s lightweight, with Chrome built-in, and is pretty darned fast.
If you’re already running Windows, perhaps it’s worth taking a look as it’s designed to run alongside and get you booted into an Internet-ready session in seconds. You’ll also get the power of Chrome web apps.
August 14, 2010
As you might know, Google Chrome OS (with Chromium, its Open Source Cousin) is scheduled to be released some time later this year. The interface to the OS is more or less like the Chrome web browser you use these days. Creators tout advantages like sandbox runs, always updated OS and hassle free usage. However, [...]
December 10, 2009
Google’s new netbook-oriented operating system, Chrome OS, got more than its fair share of press when its source code was released (including a download from our very own Jorge Sierra.) But Google’s not the only major tech company developing a speedy, open-source operating system for netbooks – Intel’s been working on Moblin netbook OS since [...]
December 3, 2009
The other day Jorge showed you how you can run Chrome OS off a USB drive in this exceptional article. As you might know, Google has released the source code for Chrome OS as Chromium OS, much like they did with the Chrome Web Browser, giving people ample opportunity to play along with the open [...]
November 23, 2009
Just a few days ago, Google announced the release of the Chrome OS source code. Within less than 24 hours, the web was littered with disk images for running the new OS on virtual machines such as VMWare and VirtualBox. I even managed to put together my own Google Chrome OS download in the form [...]
