Technology|May 17, 2011 12:05 pm

Google Explains Life After the Desktop [VIDEO]

<<<em>strong>img src=”http://www.statefarmersmarketsupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/wpid-Google-Explains-Life-After-the-Desktop-VIDEO.jpg” align=”left” style=”margin-right: 5px” />Google voiced a accessibility of dual Chromebooks — laptops formed upon Google’s Chrome OS — during a Google I/O discussion Wednesday, though a hardware specifications of those machines have been roughly utterly irrelevant.

According to Google, what creates these laptops engaging is not what they have, it’s what they lack: programs, disorderly desktops or locally stored documents. A Chromebook is not unequivocally a laptop, as well as it’s not unequivocally a computer, Google claims. It’s a web in a “computer-like object” as well as if we hold Google, “you can do all upon a web.”

Of course, a miss of desktop program does have a little benefits, such as a startup time as quick as 8 seconds. Furthermore, a actuality which your files have been stored in Google’s clouded cover meant they’re utterly safe: You can literally chuck your Chromebook in to a stream as well as we won’t remove your stuff.

The question, however, is either a universe is ready to utterly pierce in to a cloud? According to Google’s own notice upon a central Chromebooks facilities page, “when we do not have network access, functionality which depends upon it will not be available.”

Can we suppose carrying a Google Chromebook as your categorical computer, or you do critical work upon it? Check out Google’s promo video next as well as share your opinions in a comments.

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