[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.