Google "Chromebooks" launch
Google "Chromebooks" launch
Google has announced
the forthcoming commercial availability of "Chromebook" systems built on
ChromeOS. "These are not typical notebooks. With a Chromebook you
won't wait minutes for your computer to boot and browser to start. You'll
be reading your email in seconds. Thanks to automatic updates the software
on your Chromebook will get faster over time. Your apps, games, photos,
music, movies and documents will be accessible wherever you are and you
won't need to worry about losing your computer or forgetting to back up
files. Chromebooks will last a day of use on a single charge, so you don't
need to carry a power cord everywhere. And with optional 3G, just like your
phone, you'll have the web when you need it. Chromebooks have many layers
of security built in so there is no anti-virus software to buy and
maintain. Even more importantly, you won't spend hours fighting your
computer to set it up and keep it up to date.
" These systems have
Linux inside, of course, though one would be hard put to tell from the
announcement; LWN reviewed a ChromeOS
system in January.