Thread: Google Chrome

If you are looking for a lightweight, long term, especially low-cost laptop for simple tasks such as surfing the Internet or typical office applications, you end up quickly in the so-called netbooks, or simply equipped notebooks, which - apart from the initial trips to Linux - in most cases had one thing in common: the Windows operating system.


This is different from the last few weeks, because with Chrome OS, there is now an alternative to Microsoft's operating system. This is not just a different software, but an almost entirely new concept. Because Google delivers not just a new operating system, it is the manufacturer of Chrome books are also specifications for their devices.




Because these are not just as favorable as possible, but also reasonably fast and, above all, "Always On" to be. Because Google's plan is that you can use anywhere, any time, data, and especially the Internet.


In the following test, we take a first look at Chrome OS and its strengths and weaknesses want to explain further. It is therefore necessary to clarify whether similar to Google Android will have success in the notebook segment.