Playing With Google Chrome OS

We talked about the Google Chrome OS launch a couple weeks ago and am finally getting around to reviewing it… I had troubles installing Google Chrome OS as a virtual machine in Windows but am now running it just fine – aside from a few crashes.

If you want to know what I think about Chrome OS right away… It’s meh.

First off – I got my Google Chrome OS Image from gdgt and am using VMWare’s VMPlayer to run the virtual machine. Some of my crashes may be the result of running it as a Virtual Machine so I won’t discount that in my Chrome OS experience.

So what is Chrome OS? Well, honestly … it’s just Google’s Chrome Browser, as you can see above. The only real difference is the dasboard (second image above) that links to web pages. Nothing special here.

And yep – that’s it! I was expecting something more exciting but it really is just the browser. Don’t get me wrong – I live in the browser but there are so many other things you realize you do when you are limited to just a browser.  This is what Sergey wants – to keep it simple.

But this is too simple and really only fits the netbook market. There is no way I could run Google Chrome OS as my main operating system on my workstation or laptop. I could see running this on a netbook where you pretty much only need a browser.

As is – this will never compete directly with Windows and OSX. In this current iteration it’s only usable on netbooks. I was hoping for something revolutionary but got something overly simple. I expected to spend a couple hours reviewing it but it only took 10 minutes.

It’s a browser people – that’s it.

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