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Google’s upcoming Netbooks CR-48 is running an OS called Chrome OS. It builds on and develops in parallel with, an os called Chromium. We have tested the latest version of Chromium and is lightly hesitant to what we see. Google’s upcoming Chrome Books CR-48, with Toshiba pa3534u 1brs battery.

We download Chromium and is quickly up and running with it in Virtual Box. It starts very quickly, after 6-7 seconds, we are going. We log in with your Google Account, which we created in advance, but also offered up an account directly from the login page.

The first, and only one, who meets us is the Chrome browser. We surf into Google Docs and starting work on a document. It works well and fast. but it does not take long before we begin to realize the disadvantages of a compaq presario v2000 battery that is only a laptop battery.

No own programs

We can not install or launch other applications, and there is no way for IT departments to centrally configure a few settings such as security or default homepage. Without internet connection, we can not actually do anything with your computer! We can not print to locally attached printer without the need to register a printer connected to another PC that equipped with Toshiba satellite a300 battery.

When Chrome launched OS preinstalled on the CR-48 operating system is updated regularly by Google and your computer will automatically receive these updates in place. It feels like a good solution.

Detour via SkyDrive

We are trying to download a PowerPoint presentation and it goes nicely to open, but neither the old or new Word document can be opened locally, but we have to move them instead to Microsoft’s Skydrive where we can edit them in your browser.

We can not open Word documents that we’ve downloaded. To work with Word documents, we use Microsoft’s free service Skydrive. We surf on to Google’s online store and “install” a few applications, that is, make sure they end up as shortcuts in a separate tab in your browser. We can easily add a new canon battery And start a game in the browser as we amuse ourselves with a few minutes. Google seems to want us to experience the browser a bit like an Iphone or Iphone, and we may indeed about that feeling.

Does a browser?

It should here be said that Google is working on a feature called Chromoting which means you can take over the screen of a traditional PC, and Citrix has recently shown prototypes of a receiver for XenApp for Chrome OS. It sounds promising for those who usually manage with a browser, but in particular also need contact with the more traditional OS.

For the group of users who can get by with only a Web browser, Chromium as a viable alternative, but we are used to working with more complete OS, it feels like getting on a narrow legal straitjacket. We would have much more freedom to configure the computer as we want, to enjoy this computer that equipped with Dell inspiron mini 10 battery even without the connection and be able to run today’s software.

We might as well install one of the major Linux distributions. It would be equally free and with modest hardware requirements, but with a much richer experience, support for local execution and greater freedom.