Chromebook
May 16th 2011 04:39
Chromebook is going to be the first laptop/computer controlled from the cloud. All your information will be stored away from the computer itself, and if you wreck your machine in some way, nothing will be lost.
The first question I ask is whether this will work here in New Zealand, where broadband is still quite slow in some parts of the country - for instance, where I live, I can watch a video at normal speed during the daytime, but in the evenings, it will just load and load and I have to leave it and do something else before I can watch it. Which puts paid to catching up on tv programmes I've missed when they were shown.
The second question is like the first: if everything is cloud-based, will my machine really boot up in 8 seconds? It seems a bit unlikely - although I'd be willing to give it a try if someone wants to pass along their new Chromebook for me to have a go on...!
Security is supposed to be top of the line - you can read the details here - but we all know if doesn't take long for some hacker or hoaxer or violator to get in and muck things up. And if everything is in the cloud (a place of no fixed abode, I guess?) then how is the cloud itself protected...
Is there actually such a thing as a cloud? (Reminder: find out exactly what 'the cloud' means..!)
The Chromebook page talks about the 'sandbox' - this seems to be the new in-word. I've seen it used in relation to businesses recently (in fact, one newish business was called The Sandbox). With the sandbox approach things are isolated from each other so that an infection won't affect other parts of the system. Sounds great.
But it gets better: if the sandbox does get infected, then on the next boot-up everything is cleaned before you've even got started, by something called 'Verified Boot.'
I can see great advantages in the reassurances Google is giving us in regard to Chromebook. Of course, as one writer points out, you're also giving everything over to Google, which may be a distinct advantage for them.
Well, time will tell. No doubt the first users of Chromebook will be letting us know quickly whether there are any problems. Roll on June 15th.
The first question I ask is whether this will work here in New Zealand, where broadband is still quite slow in some parts of the country - for instance, where I live, I can watch a video at normal speed during the daytime, but in the evenings, it will just load and load and I have to leave it and do something else before I can watch it. Which puts paid to catching up on tv programmes I've missed when they were shown.
The second question is like the first: if everything is cloud-based, will my machine really boot up in 8 seconds? It seems a bit unlikely - although I'd be willing to give it a try if someone wants to pass along their new Chromebook for me to have a go on...!
Security is supposed to be top of the line - you can read the details here - but we all know if doesn't take long for some hacker or hoaxer or violator to get in and muck things up. And if everything is in the cloud (a place of no fixed abode, I guess?) then how is the cloud itself protected...
Is there actually such a thing as a cloud? (Reminder: find out exactly what 'the cloud' means..!)
The Chromebook page talks about the 'sandbox' - this seems to be the new in-word. I've seen it used in relation to businesses recently (in fact, one newish business was called The Sandbox). With the sandbox approach things are isolated from each other so that an infection won't affect other parts of the system. Sounds great.
But it gets better: if the sandbox does get infected, then on the next boot-up everything is cleaned before you've even got started, by something called 'Verified Boot.'
I can see great advantages in the reassurances Google is giving us in regard to Chromebook. Of course, as one writer points out, you're also giving everything over to Google, which may be a distinct advantage for them.
Well, time will tell. No doubt the first users of Chromebook will be letting us know quickly whether there are any problems. Roll on June 15th.
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