Archive for November, 2009

Chrome OS first impressions

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

I’ve just downloaded the Chrome OS virtual machine.  Very disappointing! I spent about ten minutes in it before I tried to shut it down but couldn’t find the shutdown button?  My first impression from an email I wrote to a friend was this:

“Its a piece of crap! – it’s like booting into Chrome browser – and that’s about it – it doesn’t even have a shutdown button/menu???
If you’ve seen Chrome you’ve seen Chrome OS…”

Functionality like the Google synchronized bookmarks are not implemented yet.  There is an option for adding Chrome extensions that is also not implemented yet.

I suppose the idea was always that Chrome OS be a browser based OS and it seems to be just that.