Google OS, huh?

[Chibibar]

unless they are going after a totally different market (like portable apps for mobile type devices) I mean it is nice that you can buy a new netbook that can boot up fast and look pretty, but if it can't run all your favorite old app, guess what? people will go back to Microsoft to run those apps.

From what I've read they're aiming at people whose favorite apps are web applications. As strange as it is to me, and probably most of the people on this forum, there are a growing number of computer users who do nearly everything through their web browser.

I know that Google was pushing all pure web base apps (I mean total web base like Office type products and such) That would be totally awesome in the future. I didn't upgrade from XP to Vista until I was sure most of my app would run on Vista Ultimate (Which I have) If it didn't I would still be running XP.

I would normally say the gaming community is a "minority" but I read that people play more computer games now than before with GIRLS players (which is awesome)
hmm.. maybe it will work with that new play as you download system (I forgot the name)
or maybe game can be self contain once again

 

[figmentPez]

I would normally say the gaming community is a \"minority\" but I read that people play more computer games now than before with GIRLS players (which is awesome)
hmm.. maybe it will work with that new play as you download system (I forgot the name)
or maybe game can be self contain once again

A lot of those new gamers are "casual" gamers. Bejewelled, Peggle, etc. Not to mention there are now more than 13,000 games on the iPhone. I imagine that games for Android will work on Chrome OS as well. The systems that Chrome OS seems targetted at probably won't run much 3D games well, anyway.

Is OnLive is the gaming system you're thinking of? The one where you basically play on a remote server via streaming video?

Gaming is a pretty big hole, though, for some people. I know I'm looking forward to playing some old school games on my XP netbook (if it ever gets here, stupid FedEx getting my hopes up saying it would be delivered yesterday *grumble, grumble*). Between my Gametap subscription and the recent LucasArts releases on Steam, I should have long hours of playing old games that are new to me. (Fallout, X-com, Space Quest, Loom...) Probably couldn't play any of them on Chrome OS, certainly not via Gametap. However, I don't think I'm a typical user by any means.

Also, I spent around $350, mainly because I wanted more than a couple hours of battery life. If there were a device <$200 with a small battery but still got 6+ hours because of an ARM processor & Chrome OS, that would have been pretty tempting, despite a lack of gaming (assuming it could still do video, including Hulu and other Flash stuff).

 

[Chibibar]

I would normally say the gaming community is a \"minority\" but I read that people play more computer games now than before with GIRLS players (which is awesome)
hmm.. maybe it will work with that new play as you download system (I forgot the name)
or maybe game can be self contain once again

A lot of those new gamers are "casual" gamers. Bejewelled, Peggle, etc. Not to mention there are now more than 13,000 games on the iPhone. I imagine that games for Android will work on Chrome OS as well. The systems that Chrome OS seems targetted at probably won't run much 3D games well, anyway.

Is OnLive is the gaming system you're thinking of? The one where you basically play on a remote server via streaming video?

Gaming is a pretty big hole, though, for some people. I know I'm looking forward to playing some old school games on my XP netbook (if it ever gets here, stupid FedEx getting my hopes up saying it would be delivered yesterday *grumble, grumble*). Between my Gametap subscription and the recent LucasArts releases on Steam, I should have long hours of playing old games that are new to me. (Fallout, X-com, Space Quest, Loom...) Probably couldn't play any of them on Chrome OS, certainly not via Gametap. However, I don't think I'm a typical user by any means.

Also, I spent around $350, mainly because I wanted more than a couple hours of battery life. If there were a device <$200 with a small battery but still got 6+ hours because of an ARM processor & Chrome OS, that would have been pretty tempting, despite a lack of gaming (assuming it could still do video, including Hulu and other Flash stuff).

Yea Onlive. that is what I was thinking about.

I know that a lot of us use Steam (I am a recent user and LOVE it) I will be very sad if Chrome OS doesn't support Steamapps. Of course many WoW players may not be happy either unless they have WINE or something similar to emulate for them (thus overhead) When I started WoW, I play on my iMac it was pretty cool.