Chrome OS puts the cloud in your hands

Google unleashed the Chrome OS on the world today, shipping it in a limited-edition prototype laptop outfitted with the kind of hardware and specs that it expects manufacturers to use with the browser-based operating system. Chrome OS represents a major step forward for cloud computing, with single-serving Web sites getting rebranded as easy-access apps and the nascent HTML5 underpinning the whole show.

It's far from perfect, though. Not all of Chrome-the-browser's extensions run on Chrome-the-OS, and although it boots and wakes fast, it lags in other areas. At the end of the day, it's a Netbook, perhaps more G1 than Nexus One. It's the operating system that makes it so exciting.



Source: http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2010/12/10/chrome-os-puts-the-cloud-in-your-hands/