[woodsier]

What I find more troubling is this notion that variety (or fragmentation as they call it) is bad.

They very clearly state it is an OS geared for low-resource netbook style computers, where browsers are up and running within seconds of pressing the on button. We don't have one of these yet, afaik.

Why not work with Ubuntu? It's geared to be the Windows of Linux, an all-round competitor and jack of all trades. In my mind, this would be stupid. That's like the original Ubuntu developers getting grief because they weren't building on some other distro, which may have been built with a different use in mind.

I like using Unix for my server, Win7 for my home laptop, and hopefully giving a stable version of Chrome OS a swing down the line on my girlfriend's netbook. If anything, it sounds like they want to build "down" from ditro's such as Ubuntu, not up. I'd rather not use a baseball bat in a game of tennis. Variety is a good thing.

[secret]

Isn't this browser OS concept essentially what the Crunchpad aims to be?

Edit: Of course, the crunchpad is also the hardware component, making it more all-in-one.

[roc]

The Crunchpad aims to be a browser. Specifically: a finger-friendly one.

GoogleOS would still be dealing with things like USB devices, a variety of internal hardware, offline processing, keyboard/mouse UI, desktop-class apps, etc.

[TheBuddy]

You can see the comparison here between Arrington's vision and Google's post.

http://crunchpadfans.com/2009/07/08/google-steals-fusiongara...

[jlees]

Now, Google Chrome OS running on the CrunchPad, wouldn't that be something...

[trezor]

They very clearly state it is an OS geared for low-resource netbook style computers, where browsers are up and running within seconds of pressing the on button. We don't have one of these yet, afaik.

My laptop (Windows) and Netbook (Ubuntu) is ready to surf the net within seconds from I bring it back from suspended/hibernated state. I can't recall last time I powered any of them down.

So for me, while you are technically correct, it still fails to have any real world impact as far as I am concerned.

Variety is a good thing.

This I would have to agree with.

[zimbabwe]

There's no real world impact from an OS where the entire focus is online applications? That's news to me.

If not from that, there'll be real world impact from the fact that it's by Google.

[ptomato]

But this isn't about you, precisely... it's going to end up enabling the same thing on (hopefully) cheaper, lower resource hardware resulting in broader adoption.