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c0nfl1kt
07-11-2009, 06:58 PM
Favourite and why?

I know Chrome isn't out, yet, but the idea of it has been circulated plenty to form an opinion. Lets do this based on their strengths and weaknesses.

The Windows PC still appeals to me because it's a platform that is good to lots of people and highly customizeable and flexible. Chrome OS will be a hit with audiences because of its price and engineering. Almost instantaneous booting and a kernel not plagued by subroutines is definitely a plus. Solaris is the best server OS I have ever used and is highly scalable, but it has no business in the personal market. Linux, well, it still has tons of bugs, and those are the "friendly" distributions. Mac's are useless.

In my book: Windows 7 retains the market share and regains some of the mind share of past and present consumers.

Scapegoat
07-11-2009, 07:37 PM
Google is one step closer to proving me right...

Google = Skynet

peteyturbo
07-12-2009, 01:43 AM
< can't wait for my free upgrade to windows 7 :)

lagos
07-12-2009, 02:56 AM
You realize that Chrome is going to be google branded linux, right?

I personally think its great that we are getting more and more choices as to what we run on our desktops. Windows has its good and bad points, but there was a time when you either had to pay the microsoft tax, or your system would be useless. Now thats changing and we all have options.

c0nfl1kt
07-12-2009, 05:59 AM
You realize that Chrome is going to be google branded linux, right?

I personally think its great that we are getting more and more choices as to what we run on our desktops. Windows has its good and bad points, but there was a time when you either had to pay the microsoft tax, or your system would be useless. Now thats changing and we all have options.

Well, not exactly. It's going to run a Linux kernell but the shell is going to be completely different. Solaris runs a linux kernel and it isn't "basically linux".

Chrome OS is going to be 100% cloud computing.