That will save you a ton of time, and will work on all of these platforms. If you’re trying to figure out whether you should make an App for iOS, Andriod, FireFox, or whatever - stop right now.

Honestly, next time I go on vacation, this Cr-48 is coming with me. But Chrome OS isn’t designed to be your one true operating system - this is for the lightweight, long lasting laptop that you use to surf from the couch, or take on vacation.

For that last 10% - coding, heavy photo editing, syncing my iPhone - well, I’ve got another computer for that. which combine to serve about 90% of my computing needs. There is a killer combination of cloud services (Google Docs, HootSuite) and Chrome Apps & Extensions (TweetDeck, Pandora, Evernote). But at the same time, I’m monumentally impressed at what I’m able to do with just a browser. While I was filling out form to register for one of the beta laptops, I was thinking to myself “Will I really be able to do it, to let go from my ties to a ‘desktop’ and embrace this?” Yes, there are certainly some things that I just can’t do on this laptop.

As a user, I've never been exposed to the file system - just the Chrome browser. In the 72 hours that I have had this laptop, I have yet to see a single file or folder. I’ve found the quickest way to describe Chrome OS is this statement: “The browser IS the OS”. With all the releases that we have seen for Windows and Macintosh OS, the core concepts have remained untouched in over 20 years. Generally speaking, since the dawn of the home computing era, we've become used to the concept windows and folders, and a desktop to organize them. Sometimes it Takes a Brick to See Real InnovationĬhrome OS is an interesting divergence from the traditional model of an operating system. Combined with the “AwesomeBar” that Chrome has (unlike Internet Explorer and Firefox, there is no separate search box), a person is a single keystroke away from starting a search to answer their next question or desire. This laptop doesn’t have a caps lock key.

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