My main PC is the excellent Gigabyte T1028X convertible with touch OS: Win 7 and Kubuntu 10.10.
My other two laptops use Vista and Linux.
My reasoning :
1. I like my data on my machine and on my backup devices.
2. Dependency on external communications links ? NO!
3. Even with a dedicated high-speed link I would still not become Cloud dependent ... too risky.
4. Chrome OS is too limiting as most of my computer club members (440) do photo manipulation and storage, for example, using apps of their choice when not connected to the WWW ... backup drives are cheap.
5. Peter mentioned underpowered netbooks .. I disagree .. I can play HD video on my Gigabyte, manipulate video and install multiple OS on my 64 GB SSD HDD and my 32 GB HSSD card.
(I do R&D for the club using bootable USB thumb drives to test various OS and apps - no problem)
Note: I am not a gamer.
Finally, to convince all, or most of the people I know, any Cloud-oriented OS would have to be dramatically better than existing ones and offer non-Cloud options as well .... and be free.
Regards,
ScottyJavea
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Chrome OS OR any Cloud-only OS ... Not For Me !
It's not Cloud-only anymore (at least after they spoke at the IO keynote.)
- Most apps and games you install from the Chrome Web Store use 'Local Storage', basically you can use them offline.
- It now has a file manager, so you can plug in a USB device, save something to your Chromebook, find a Wifi spot, then upload it to wherever you want.
- Pretty much all Google Apps now work offline, from Docs to Gmail.
- It's also open source, so don't be surprised if the OS image comes to the torrents after the first few Chromebooks (read: Non CR-48's) are released.
- The OS itself doesn't force it's notebooks to be underpowered, but you really don't need all that much power to just use the internet and it's web apps. Don't be surprised if soon enough we get high-power notebooks from companies.
- You don't need to be cloud dependent, you just download your apps, say some sort of Photo Manipulation app. Save your file locally, plug in your backup drive, and viola, it's on your Laptop itself and your USB drive.
- Most apps and games you install from the Chrome Web Store use 'Local Storage', basically you can use them offline.
- It now has a file manager, so you can plug in a USB device, save something to your Chromebook, find a Wifi spot, then upload it to wherever you want.
- Pretty much all Google Apps now work offline, from Docs to Gmail.
- It's also open source, so don't be surprised if the OS image comes to the torrents after the first few Chromebooks (read: Non CR-48's) are released.
- The OS itself doesn't force it's notebooks to be underpowered, but you really don't need all that much power to just use the internet and it's web apps. Don't be surprised if soon enough we get high-power notebooks from companies.
- You don't need to be cloud dependent, you just download your apps, say some sort of Photo Manipulation app. Save your file locally, plug in your backup drive, and viola, it's on your Laptop itself and your USB drive.
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