Chromium OS source released [LWN.net]

Chromium OS source released

Posted Nov 20, 2009 5:17 UTC (Fri) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: Chromium OS source released by rsidd
Parent article: Chromium OS source released

> The video says "nothing" will be stored locally. So what good is that
> 320GB hard disk?

It's lying. Google gears and other things will store local copies of things
to make it faster. Probably. I think.

I expect what they are saying is mean is that 'there is nothing you will
lose if you destroy this computer'. I hope that is what they mean anyways.
But that sort of thing is too complicated for normal folks to understand.

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Chromium OS source released

Posted Nov 20, 2009 9:08 UTC (Fri) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

Yes, this article makes it clearer. You save it locally and it syncs to Google's servers. You can also run some apps locally. They may be oversimplifying but they're not stupid. Still, syncing all one's data -- music, videos, etc -- would take up a lot of bandwidth. I'm still skeptical, but my guess is that they're aiming to make extremely inexpensive devices that will serve as a second computer (purely an internet device) for serious users, and as a first computer for people who don't know computers.