On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Fred James <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is anyone using Chromium? Thoughts? Well, one from me ... nothing is > store on your computer ... so your computer becomes a thin client, > right? So they glossed over where stuff is stored in the videos, but > the answer is, of course, on someone else's computer, right? You comfy > with that? All kind of warm and fuzzy? I'd be very interested in your > thoughts/feelings (Disclaimer: I am in no way associated with MS or G, > of Apple for that matter, and I don't make a living from any of these, > or even from Linux/Unix (anymore).)
I don't see much point to Chrome/Chromium unless it brings along with it different, more flexible hardware (and I don't know what that might look like) or more-or-less the same hardware available now (like netbooks) at considerably reduced prices. I don't see the point of installing Chromium on an existing computer, since I don't see the point of limiting the functionality of existing hardware. If you have a netbook with a 160gb hard drive, why would you install an operating system on it that is designed not to take advantage of that? If, on the other hand, newfangled netbooks or pad-like devices with solid-state drives hit the retail market for $50 preloaded with Chromium, then I might be interested. You can pretty much do everything that Chromium promises now, if you want to, whatever OS you're using. So the only benefit to an OS that is limited to what Chromium promises is that somehow it will be a better value proposition for the consumer. I'm not sure even Google can pull that off. Michael M. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
