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by nacs 2539 days ago
As the article mentions, this is a port of the previously-Chrome-only NaCL-powered version of Google Earth.

I doubt the web-based versions (whether JS/WebAssembly/Nacl, etc) will ever have the feature-set of the standalone Google Earth (nor is there much monetary reason for Google to do so).
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mtgx 2539 days ago
Hopefully this means Google will attempt to use CPUs from vendors other than Intel on new Chromebooks. I imagine the handful or so of NaCL (not PNaCL) apps were the reason why they supported Intel CPUs on Chromebooks so much.
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grapeli23 2539 days ago
https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/meltdown-spectre-vulner...

In this list, I see more than 40 ARM-based models. This is very, very much compared to the list of commercially available M$ Surface. In comparison with the number of Android devices it's a drop in the sea.

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