OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/22546/Dell_Releases_Experimental_Unsupported_Chrome_OS_Image Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 18 May 2013 23:33:37 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Comment by frood http://www.osnews.com/thread?396843 http://www.osnews.com/thread?396843 Excellent stuff. Good to see a large OEM like Dell releasing images like this. And yet another reason for me to get a Dell Mini 10... with its perfect OSX support 'n all. Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (frood) Comments Good Luck Google http://www.osnews.com/thread?396895 http://www.osnews.com/thread?396895 Not that they 'need' luck - being the juggernaut that they are, but I do think that Chrome may well be the shape of things to come. Aside from a XCode and Final Cut Pro there is very little that I do on my laptop that I could not do in another OS or even in a cloud.
I am sure that there are some things like iPhoto or iTunes that I would not really want to do in the cloud, but for general purpose why not?

Now for the rant- Microsoft Office - MS should watch their back before they get their butt-steak served to them. I routinely use TextMate or any 'TEXT' editor to get the job done - I can think of no real reason to use office outside of the office. And if you do not need MS Office then why would you need MS Windows? It is not like the average home user needs Access or Powerpoint. They have had a great run as a monopoly but maybe that cash cow has been miled dry... Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kaelodest) Comments Thar be dragons there ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?396905 http://www.osnews.com/thread?396905

In addition, I have made a best effort attempt to get the Broadcom Wi-Fi adapter working in this image.


Good luck with that! No one yet has returned alive .... ;-) Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rugxulo) Comments RE: Good Luck Google http://www.osnews.com/thread?397446 http://www.osnews.com/thread?397446
It is not like the average home user needs Access or Powerpoint.


Maybe not Access, but Powerpoint? Seriously? I know that there are places on Earth where the norm is to use PDF/whatever for presentations, but, at least in my native country, PPT is so entrenched it is not funny. Not to mention the lousy speeches they give.

I'm already trying my very best to migrate people to OO.o / PDF, but there _are_ some real differences. For example, the graphing functions in OO.o is missing x errorbars (which in a scientific setting is hilarious)(I don't know if this has been rectified, though). Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (xiaokj) Comments