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Thursday sure has been busy. Two substantial Lenovo leaks and the Google announcement around Chrome OS – all in all rather exciting I do say.
As I mentioned previously, I’d bring you a highlight of the coverage around the web as a one-stop shop to get to all the good stuff, if you haven’t seen it already. I also gathered in some screenshots and videos for you to enjoy here, before you head out across the intarwebs. Enjoy
Full Event Coverage (pretty long, detailed)
- TechCrunch (my favorite of all the coverage)
- Engadget
- Gizmodo
Good summaries & other resources
- Mashable – some good shots of Chrome OS in action
- Gizmodo – “Everything You Need To Know About Chrome OS” (very good summary)
- Lifehacker – good summary, screenshots
Opinion articles
- The Register – “Google Chrome OS – do we want another monoculture?” (Interesting comparisons to Apple)
- Gizmodo – “What Google Needs for Chrome OS to make it”
- Gottabemobile – “A Quantum Leap, or Too Early To Tell?”
- Engadget – “Chrome OS is what I want, but not what I need” (To quote from the article, “But I still need my real OS”)
- TechCrunch – “Google Is Keeping Chrome OS Simple. Maybe Too Simple.”
If you click through to view the video on YouTube, you’ll see a number of related videos that go into more depth on various Chrome OS topics.
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I love Google’s approach, taking everyting to an atomic level to perfect its efficiency.
That said, they are stubborn as a mule and arrogant to boot, and I’m not likely to submit to their our-size-fits-all philosophy. For example, GMail. Google has the brightest minds and researchers this side of IBM and Amgen, but they insist that the human brain is only benefited when forced to “search, not sort”, and they refuse to make commonly accepted features available like Folders and the ability to sort on sender, date, size, etc. One can argue that search IS superior to sort, but given that they only allow 20 results in an infinite mailbox, the searcher has to recall very specific criteria, or click through dozens to hundreds of pages.
Google Voice – a great system, but good luck figuring out when you’ll be invited, and whether you’ll be able to get a number in your areacode, and whether it is portable in or out.
YouTube – a great universal, virtual video library, except that stuff arbitrarily disappears, so there is no point in linking anything or saving as a favorite.
Chrome OS will no doubt be fast, but it won’t run MS Office, and Google Apps is no substitute.
I can’t argue with the accessibility of GMail, but it DOES have the capabilities you mention. The “labels” are for all intents & purposes folders today. And while you can’t “browse” by a certain criteria, you can search by it IF you know how. But will my Mom know how to search for e-mails received between X date and Y date? Nope!
While Google Apps isn’t great, MS has a beta version of their competitor that interfaces directly with Office 2007 (and 2010). I’m going to try it soon, hopefully it’s a better substitute. And it WILL get better, MS is feeling the heat from Google.