Will you buy Google Chromebook?

Chrome OS is a cloud-dependent operating system largely requiring a persistent Internet connection. The version shipping on commercial Chromebooks as well features a file manager and media player that allow access to some local files. Users as well will be able to get Gmail, Google Calendar and Google Docs offline. Third-party developers can make their web apps available for offline use, so there should be more than just Google stuff. But, for most functions, a persistent Internet connection will be required.

The recent failures of Amazon

"If the recent failures of Amazon and the Sony Playstation Network weren't enough to show that the 'Cloud' isn't secure or reliable I'm not sure what will," Betanews reader Bob Bradley writes in a comment posted last month. "The Chromebook may be good for casual browsing or playing a facebook game however I wouldn't trust my school work or business on it." Bradley refers the two-day Amazon Web Services outage that started April 21. Around the same time, Sony took down PSN afterwards hackers stole personal data from as many as 77 million subscribers.

Besides direct sales, Google will offer subscription programs for businesses and schools, something more commonly seen for software than hardware. Student subscriptions will cost $20 per month, during businesses can get a Chromebook for $28 per user per month. Google as well will provide warranty and replacement services, including hardware upgrade replacements. Since users' files and settings are synced to the cloud, upgrades are conceptually as simple as swap and sync.

Dam look at those results! Hey what happened to the poll about who uses Windows 7 Joey? They were the exact oppisit.Goole is search and Andriod, both at heart harvest information for Google to sell.If someone gave me a Chromebook, I would blow it away and put Windows on it.

This device is not the future. Nor will it sell then at all. Cloud only will never work. People only need to be without internet access for a few hours for this whole idea to fall apart.And a intel atom, are you kidding. I have experience with atom, and it wasn't good. It's beyond slow. For those who think different, you must never had owned a CPU that cost over 50 bucks.Bottom line is I can't think of one reason i would even try this thing. Windows works just perfect. I have access to all my programs and can all in all play in the cloud should i need to. I'm not sure why google is even bothering with this chrome OS. It's something that will never work.

No, no sale for me, I will not buy this. I need something that I can use without having to be connected to the internet.I do a lot of things with the internet, nevertheless the internet it's not all that I want.Doing genealogy innovation, I get a lot of information. This is information that I need to save to my computer & This just doesn't do the job & I hate using flash drives & refuse to use one for everything.

Currently no intention of buying one, and it's likely I never will. I often go places where a network connection is non-existent. This laptop as well wouldn't run the software I need. At that time there's the cloud reliability issue...

No sale. You can get a full size laptop or 12" netbook/ultraportable for the same price, which can all in all use Google Docs, plus run any legacy software you might need, as so then as being able to work in places without wifi without the ridiculous expense of 3G. Even for someone who is always in a wifi zone, why would you pay the same price for a computer that can't run the thousands of Windows apps that exist. If Chromebook cost $100-200 someone might buy it, or people who aren't able to avoid viruses might buy it as a cheaper alternative to Mac.

Yes.Like as not not on the spur of the moment, but straightway time I replace my laptop I will get a Chromebook.I already have desktop machines, which I can use for computing tasks that need render power. I see the appeal in a lightweight laptop that stores files in the 'cloud'. Great for traveling too, as if you loose or break it, you don't lose your documents.

Hey IT advisor why cant I get iCloud until this fall?? You told us that when Crapple announces something you can get it soon afterwards?

Screen is too small, need anyway 1080.Processor too slowNo phonerequires active internet connectionWon't run MS Office

Classification as pointless as the feature itself

It may seem like a classification as pointless as the feature itself, however I have come to regard the presence of a kickstand as an immediate indicator that a smartphone is too big to carry in my trouser pocket.

[Update] Like so many other things in life, the Internet will change the way we go to war, and it already has. The few alleged "cyberwar" actions we've seen were likely waged in some cases by government contractors. It makes sense for us to adopt this model.

There was a time when important people claimed that Java was the future of computing and major industry companies -- even Microsoft bought into it. Now Java has degenerated into an unpleasant legacy research that causes way more problems than it solves.