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Chrome OS is well underway and is based on the popular Chrome browser; which many of you will have installed even without knowing, thanks to Adobe and Realplayer and other add-ons which attached it to there downloads. Chrome OS is going to be a bit different from traditional operating systems in that it has a Web ethos running through it, it is rumoured it will not support physical hard-drives by default, instead will store your documents on-line in “The Cloud”. What this means is Google Docs will store your files and any applications you require to edit and create them will also be web based.

Personally I like Google Docs but I like to be able to choose which files I upload not have all my files uploaded by default, this feature may sound good to Google but to the paranoid like me it would deter me from using Google Chrome OS.

 Its reliance on the web also means that Irish users will be thin on the ground as poor broadband coverage/quality will cripple what is being designed to be one of the fastest operating systems ever.I think Google have lost sight of the fact that although alot of people use the web that a high percentage of them are connecting at near to dial-up speeds.

I think Google Chrome OS may be the next Linux, although I can’t  see it being as popular as say Ubuntu which is a viable alternative to Windows, until broadband speeds increase in developed countries then its ahead of its time.

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