there will be local content storage. http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience/content-browser
<http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience/content-browser> http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience/shelf <http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience/shelf> --- Aaron Baer [email protected] http://www.slyness.org/ On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Michael Moore <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
