Netbooks with Googlea4‚¬a4„s Chrome OS operating system wona4‚¬a4„t be available to most consumers until the middle of next year, but company executives walked through many of the features at a press event today, where they also announced a pilot program using unbranded netbooks.
I&'m finally starting to understand why someone would buy one of these devices. Most of the discussion until now has been at a theoretical level, focusing on the idea of an operating system that exists almost entirely online &8212' which sounds exciting but doesna4‚¬a4„t necessarily translate to a must-buy for consumers.
Instead of summarizing the entire demo, Ia4‚¬a4„m going to point out the three things that stood out for me as a consumer:
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