Google "Chromebook" another symptom of the disease
 

Of selling "services" rather than letting people own things. No hard
drive, just a small amount of solid-state memory. Which means aside
from an operating system, everything you do on this thing will be
"cloud-resident."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/19/tech/m...ook/index.html

Re: Google "Chromebook" another symptom of the disease
 

RichA <rander3127@gmail.com> wrote:

> Of selling "services" rather than letting people own things. No hard
> drive, just a small amount of solid-state memory. Which means aside
> from an operating system, everything you do on this thing will be
> "cloud-resident."
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/19/tech/m...ook/index.html
History repeats itself; this trend reminds me of when everyone in the
workplace had a dumb terminal connected to the big mainframe. Makes
sense for a few...

Re: Google "Chromebook" another symptom of the disease
 

On Saturday, October 20, 2012 5:47:25 PM UTC+1, RichA wrote:
> Of selling "services" rather than letting people own things. No hard
>
> drive, just a small amount of solid-state memory. Which means aside
>
> from an operating system, everything you do on this thing will be
>
> "cloud-resident."
>
>
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/19/tech/m...ook/index.html

SSD is great for speed, if you want storage use a NAS drive. If you are worried about Google install another Linux distro.

Or you can configure Chromium OS to keep Google away, it is an open source project.

It is cheaper and easier to use than both Apple and Windows. Use it the way you want it, with or without Google services.


DanP

Re: Google "Chromebook" another symptom of the disease
 

On Oct 20, 1:19*pm, RonThe...@null.invalid (Ron) wrote:
> RichA <rander3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Of selling "services" rather than letting people own things. *No hard
> > drive, just a small amount of solid-state memory. *Which means aside
> > from an operating system, everything you do on this thing will be
> > "cloud-resident."
>
> >http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/19/tech/m...romebook/index...
>
> History repeats itself; this trend reminds me of when everyone in the
> workplace had a dumb terminal connected to the big mainframe. Makes
> sense for a few...

I knew the end was near when individual printers became "Intranet"
devices.

Re: Google "Chromebook" another symptom of the disease
 

On Oct 20, 4:15*pm, DanP <dan.pe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, October 20, 2012 5:47:25 PM UTC+1, RichA wrote:
> > Of selling "services" rather than letting people own things. *No hard
>
> > drive, just a small amount of solid-state memory. *Which means aside
>
> > from an operating system, everything you do on this thing will be
>
> > "cloud-resident."
>
> >http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/19/tech/m...romebook/index...
>
> SSD is great for speed, if you want storage use a NAS drive. If you are worried about Google install another Linux distro.
>
> Or you can configure Chromium OS to keep Google away, it is an open source project.
>
> It is cheaper and easier to use than both Apple and Windows. Use it the way you want it, with or without Google services.
>
> DanP

The jury is still out on the stability of SSD drives. Particular
since there appears to be a lot of fake ones floating around. It's
hard to fake a hard drive.