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Chrome OS The future model of personal computing?

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Posted 12 July 2009 - 09:33 AM

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Personally I like the idea in theory, but they have a ton of security challenges ahead of them if they intend upon being "server to the world". Also, I am old school. We were taught to back up everything. I would want to keep my personal data local just for this reason. You never trust that even with proper maintenance equipment failure will never happen. Exponentially so when you are dealing with gigaflops of data if their OS catches on.
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Posted 28 July 2009 - 01:57 PM

Won't happen. Not with me, anyway. Not unless Google develops their own 3d gaming API that beats the phlox out of DirectX.
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Posted 28 July 2009 - 02:54 PM

View PostPyrion, on Jul 28 2009, 02:57 PM, said:

Won't happen. Not with me, anyway. Not unless Google develops their own 3d gaming API that beats the phlox out of DirectX.
Nor I. I admit to being one of those paranoid old schoolers who likes his data stored and backed up locally. I will say the concept of paring back the OS size has appeal to me though.
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Posted 29 July 2009 - 07:08 AM

Sevnson, just find a bootlegged copy of MS DOS. :P
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Posted 03 August 2009 - 02:51 PM

View PostCanadian Mind, on Jul 29 2009, 08:08 AM, said:

Sevnson, just find a bootlegged copy of MS DOS. :P
Bleh. Typing line commands and remembering syntax is for chumps :P
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Posted 02 March 2010 - 10:27 PM

Data not on your hard drive is not your data. A computer for which you do not have root is not your computer. Yea, real old school.
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